In many data-centric applications it is desirable to use OWL as an expressive schema language where one expresses constraints that need to be satisfied by the (instance) data. Howe...
The SQL queries produced in XML-to-SQL query translation are often unnecessarily complex, even for simple input XML queries. In this paper we argue that relational systems can do ...
When multiple data sources are available for clustering, an a priori data integration process is usually required. This process may be costly and may not lead to good clusterings,...
Elisa Boari de Lima, Raquel Cardoso de Melo Minard...
Abstract. A central task when integrating data from different sources is to detect identical items. For example, price comparison websites have to identify offers for identical p...
Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...