Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...
ct Information Integration is among the most important fields in information management. The problem of integrating data from diverse, possibly heterogeneous data sources is ubiqu...
Ioana Manolescu, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann
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 ...
There exist many interrelated information sources on the Internet that can be categorized into structured (database) and semistructured (documents). A key challenge is to integrat...
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...