Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
Several federated database systems have been built in the past using the relational or the object model as federating model. This paper gives an overview of the XMLMedia system, a ...
This paper presents an extensible architecture that can be used to support the integration of biological data sets. Biological research frequently requires this kind of synthesis....
Michael Maibaum, Galia Rimon, Christine A. Orengo,...
Statistical data is present everywhere—from governmental bodies to economics, from life-science to industry. With the rise of the Web of Data, the need for sharing, accessing, an...
Michael Hausenblas, Wolfgang Halb, Yves Raimond, L...
We demonstrate a system for querying probabilistic XML documents with simple XPath queries. A user chooses between a variety of query answering techniques, both exact and approxim...