Several federated database systems have been built in the past using the relational or the object model as federating model. This paper gives an overview of the XMLMedia system, a ...
: Integration of heterogeneous information in the context of Internet becomes a key activity to enable a more organized and semantically meaningful access to data sources. As Inter...
Business Intelligence (BI) refers to technologies, tools, and practices for collecting, integrating, analyzing, and presenting large volumes of information to enable better decisi...
Successful information management implies the ability to design accurate representations of the real world of interest, in spite of the diversity of perceptions from the applicati...
The explosion of the number of web-based information sources has drastically increased the need for intelligent mediation tools to be implemented between the users and these infor...