At a fundamental level, the key challenge in data integration is to reconcile the semantics of disparate data sets, each expressed with a different database structure. I argue th...
Abstract— Today data sources are pervasive and their number is growing tremendously. Current tools are not prepared to exploit this unprecedented amount of information and to cop...
Grids currently serve as platforms for numerous scientific as well as business applications that generate and access vast amounts of data. In this paper, we address the need for e...
Although research in data integration has become one of the main issues in [6], geographic data integration is still a laborious and complicated problem, even for specialists. Geo...
XML is fast becoming the standard for information exchange on the Internet. As such, information expressed in XML will need to be integrated with existing information systems, whi...