The overwhelming amount of information sources now available through the internet has increased the need to combine or integrate the data retrieved from these sources in an intell...
Data integration approaches mostly attempt to resolve semantic uncertainty and conflicts between data sources during the data integration process. In some application areas, this...
Schema integration is the problem of creating a unified target schema based on a set of existing source schemas that relate to each other via specified correspondences. The unifie...
Laura Chiticariu, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa
Data cubes for OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) often need to be constructed from data located in several distributed and autonomous information sources. Such a data integratio...
Query optimizers in current database systems are designed to pick a single efficient plan for a given query based on current statistical properties of the data. However, different...
Pedro Bizarro, Shivnath Babu, David J. DeWitt, Jen...