Integration systems typically support only a restricted set of queries over the schema they export. The reason is that the participating information sources contribute limited con...
With the phenomenal growth of the WWW, rich data sources on many different subjects have become available online. Some of these sources store daily facts that often involve textual...
Karla A. V. Borges, Alberto H. F. Laender, Claudia...
Knowledge Sifter is a scaleable agent-based system that supports access to heterogeneous information sources such as the Web, open-source repositories, XML-databases and the emergi...
Larry Kerschberg, Mizan Chowdhury, Alberto Damiano...
Data integration systems offer users a uniform interface to a set of data sources. Previous work has typically assumed that the data sources are independent of each other; however...
The need for information integration is paramount in many biological disciplines, because of the large heterogeneity in both the types of data involved and in the diversity of app...