For many businesses and organizations, the achievement of interoperability has proven to be a highly desirable goal. However, without efficient schema mapping mechanisms or models ...
Abstract. One of the areas of data integration covers systems that maintain coherence among a heterogeneous set of databases. Such a system repeatedly collects data from the local ...
Semistructured data may be irregular and incomplete and does not necessarily conform to a fixed schema. As with structured data, it is often desirable to maintain a history of cha...
Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Serge Abiteboul, Jennifer W...
Constructing and maintaining semantic mappings are necessary but troublesome in data sharing systems. While most current work focuses on seeking automated techniques to solve this...
We demonstrate a novel query interface that enables users to construct a rich search query without any prior knowledge of the underlying schema or data. The interface, which is in...