XML data integration tools are facing a variety of challenges for their efficient and effective operation. Among these is the requirement to handle a variety of inconsistencies or...
Sudipto Guha, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, Ting...
: Multiagent Systems (MAS) are open, heterogeneous and distributed software systems of autonomous agents. The management of exception differs in MAS from what is known in usual eng...
For execution of complex biological queries, data integration systems often use several intermediate data sources because the domain coverage of individual sources is limited. Qual...
Consistent query answering is the term commonly used for the problem of answering queries on databases that violate certain integrity constraints. We address this problem for univ...
Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software tends to be cheap, reliable, and functionally powerful due to its large user base. It has thus become highly desirable to incorporate COTS ...