: Many model management tasks, e.g., schema matching or merging, require the manual handling of metadata. Given the diversity of metadata, its many different representations and mo...
Interoperability in service oriented environments is heavily inuenced by the view that the cooperating services have on their data. e term service for the abstract contract concl...
Data integration has been an important area of research for several years. However, such systems suffer from one of the main drawbacks of database systems: the need to invest signi...
XML data is often used (validated, stored, queried, etc) with respect to di erent types. Understanding the relationship between these types can provide important information for ma...
Information integration in enterprises is a nightmare due to the differences in software and hardware platforms and due to syntactic and semantic differences in the schemas of the...