Data integration from multiple autonomous data sources has emerged as an important practical problem. The key requirement for such data integration is that owners of such data nee...
Amr El Abbadi, Aziz Gulbeden, Divyakant Agrawal, F...
As the amount of available electronic information is dramatically increasing, the ability for rapid and e ective access to information has become critical. Most traditional inform...
Cooperation and autonomy are two antagonistic core variables of agent-based systems, and a key challenge in designing such systems is to balance these variables appropriately. Thi...
In a data warehouse (DW) environment, when the operational environment does not posses or does not want to inform the data about the changes that occurred, controls have to be impl...
Rosana L. de B. A. Rocha, Leonardo Figueiredo Card...
Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...