We develop a data integration approach for the efficient evaluation of queries over autonomous source databases. The approach is based on some novel applications and extensions of...
In data-integration systems, information sources often have various constraints such as “all houses stored at a source have a unique address.” These constraints are very usefu...
In this paper we describe the development of an ontology of molecular and phenotypic cereals data, realized by integrating existing public web databases with the database developed...
When two or more databases are combined into a global one, integrity may be violated even when each database is consistent with its own local integrity constraints. Efficient metho...
When a database is defined as views over autonomous sources, inconsistencies with respect to global integrity constraints are to be expected. This paper investigates the possibili...