Traditional science searched for new objects and phenomena that led to discoveries. Tomorrow's science will combine together the large pool of information in scientific archi...
Tanu Malik, Alexander S. Szalay, Tamas Budavari, A...
We present a new approach to the grid technology that is based on updateable views. Views are used in two ways: (1) as wrappers of local servers that adopt local schemata to the fe...
Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz S...
A main problem of data integration is the treatment of conflicts caused by different modeling of real-world entities, different data models or simply by different representations ...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
The maintenance of global integrity constraints in database federations is still a challenge since traditional integrity constraint management techniques cannot be applied to such ...