Abstract. To meet the new, more sophisticated needs of decision makers, a new generation of BI systems is emerging. In this paper we focus on two enabling technologies for this new...
For data to be successfully integrated, semantically similar database elements must be identified as candidates for merging. However, there may be significant differences between ...
The discovery of services that are appropriate for answering a given question is a crucial task in the open and distributed environment of web services for geographic information. ...
The problem of integrating information from con icting sources comes up in many current applications, such as cooperative information systems, heterogeneous databases, and multi-a...
Because performance is a crucial issue in database systems, data caching techniques have been studied in database research field, especially in client-server databases and distrib...