One important step in integrating heterogeneous databases is matching equivalent attributes: Determining which fields in two databasesrefer to the samedata. The meaning of informa...
Background: With the rapid development of new genetic measurement methods, several types of genetic alterations can be quantified in a high-throughput manner. While the initial fo...
— The integration of heterogeneous data sources is one of the main challenges within the area of data engineering. Due to the absence of an independent and universal benchmark fo...
The environment around us is progressively equipped with various sensors, producing data continuously. The applications using these data face many challenges, such as data stream i...
Abstract. We show how to specify and use the metadata for a virtual and relational data integration system under the local-as-view (LAV) approach. We use XML and RuleML for represe...