Effective integration of heterogeneous data sources has been studied as the most pressing challenge in various fields; such as, high energy physics, astronomy, and life sciences. ...
We describe a framework called the Uni-Level Description (ULD) for accurately representing information from a broad range of data models. The ULD extends previous metadata-model a...
Tableau is a commercial business intelligence (BI) software tool that supports interactive, visual analysis of data. Armed with a visual interface to data and a focus on usability...
Kristi Morton, Ross Bunker, Jock D. Mackinlay, Rob...
Today, information integration has assumed a completely different, complex connotation than what it used to be. The advent of the Internet, the proliferation of information source...
Mediators – used in federated information systems – provide a homogeneous read-only access to a set of autonomous information sources. To achieve semantic integration of the h...