: Integrated access to distributed data is an important problem faced in many scientific and commercial applications. A data integration system provides a unified view for users to...
This paper introduces the Telecommunication Outside Plant Markup Language (TOPML), an OpenGis GML (Geographic Markup Language) application schema designed to describe telecommunica...
As XML has emerged as a data representation format and as great quantities of data have been stored in the XML format, XML document design has become an important and evident issu...
Currently, there are two main basic approaches to data integration: Global-as-View (GaV) and Local-as-View (LaV). However, both GaV and LaV have their limitations. In a GaV approa...
GridVine is a Peer Data Management System based on a decentralized access structure. Built following the principle of data independence, it separates a logical layer – where dat...