A universal model of a database D and a set Σ of integrity constraints is a database that extends D, satisfies Σ, and is most general in the sense that it contains sound and co...
The goal of having networks of seamlessly connected people, software agents and IT systems remains elusive. Early integration efforts focused on connectivity at the physical and s...
— Privacy, lineage, uncertainty, and security are important to many information integration efforts, and these “PLUS” properties interact in a number of complex ways. This pa...
Barbara T. Blaustein, Len Seligman, Michael Morse,...
We identify one of the incompatibility problems associated with atomic commit :protocols that prevents them from being used together and weiderive a correctness criterion that cap...
Infomaster is an information integration system. It provides integrated access to distributed, heterogeneous information sources, thus giving its users the illusion of a centraliz...