The mediator/wrapper approach is used to integrate data from different databases and other data sources by introducing a middleware virtual database that provides high level abstr...
In this paper we describe the development of an ontology of molecular and phenotypic cereals data, realized by integrating existing public web databases with the database developed...
With the wide adoption of XML as a standard data representation and exchange format, querying XML documents becomes increasingly important. However, relational database systems co...
MIWeb realizes a mediator-based integration of heterogeneous metadata sources over the Web. Mediators are well known from database integration. They improve the quality of search ...
This paper deals with the evaluation of acyclic Boolean conjunctive queries in relational databases. By well-known results of Yannakakis [1981], this problem is solvable in polynom...