ct Information Integration is among the most important fields in information management. The problem of integrating data from diverse, possibly heterogeneous data sources is ubiqu...
Ioana Manolescu, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann
A Data Warehouse DW is a database that collects and stores data from multiple remote and heterogeneous information sources. When a query is posed, it is evaluated locally, without...
Extraction-Transformation-Loading (ETL) tools are pieces of software responsible for the extraction of data from several sources, their cleansing, customization and insertion into...
This paper surveys the area of biological and genomic sources integration, which has recently become a major focus of the data integration research field. The challenges that an i...
The problem of data integration (query decomposition, data fragmentation) has been widely studied in literature, but the inherent hierarchical nature of XML data presents problems...