— The trend in Grid computing towards more data intensive applications, accessing more and more relational databases and requiring advanced integration of secondhand and publicly...
Recognizing that information from different sources refers to the same (real world) entity is a crucial challenge in instance-level information integration, as it is a pre-requisi...
Paolo Bouquet, Heiko Stoermer, Claudia Nieder&eacu...
Abstract. The Clio project provides tools that vastly simplify information integration. Information integration requires data conversions to bring data in different representation...
Ronald Fagin, Laura M. Haas, Mauricio A. Hern&aacu...
ions and concepts that let applications access and share resources and services across distributed, wide area networks, while providing common security semantics, distributed resou...
Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick, St...
Abstract Information agents are cooperative agents whose main goal is to collaborate and assist task agents like mobile agents in obtaining information from heterogeneous data sour...
Lito Perez Cruz, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, David Squire