: Molecular biology data are placed in different databases, repositories and flat files, usually distributed over the web. Distinct data models with schemas that are often changing...
Background: Crop wild relatives are wild species that are closely related to crops. They are valuable as potential gene donors for crop improvement and may help to ensure food sec...
Jonathan D. Moore, Shelagh P. Kell, Jose M. Iriond...
We introduce a declarative approach for a coherent composition of autonomous databases. For this we use ID-logic, a formalism that extends classical logic with inductive definitio...
Bert Van Nuffelen, Ofer Arieli, Alvaro Corté...
The goal of a mediator system is to provide users a uniform interface to the multitude of information sources. To translate user queries, given in a mediated schema, to queries on...
In data integration, a Merge operator takes as input a pair of schemas in some conceptual modelling language, together with a set of correspondences between their constructs, and p...