Molecular biology data are subject to terms of use that vary widely between databases and curating institutions. This research presents a taxonomy of contractual and technical res...
We introduce and explore a property of deductive data bases with updates wich we call total homeostaticity, and which substantially generalizes the following their property: ”fo...
One important step in integrating heterogeneous databases is matching equivalent attributes: Determining which fields in two databasesrefer to the samedata. The meaning of informa...
One issue involved in accessing multiple heterogeneous information sources is how to integrate the retrieved data. SIMS, an information mediator, handles this problem by mapping t...
This paper surveys the area of biological and genomic sources integration, which has recently become a major focus of the data integration research field. The challenges that an i...