Abstract. A global Data warehouse (DW) integrates data from multiple distributed heterogeneous databases and other information sources. DW can be abstractly seen as a set of materi...
A data warehouse DW can be seen as a set of materialized views de ned over remote base relations. When a query is posed, it is evaluated locally, using the materialized views, wi...
Entity matching (EM) is the task of identifying records that refer to the same real-world entity from different data sources. While EM is widely used in data integration and data...
An active XML (AXML) document contains tags representing calls to Web services. Therefore, retrieving its contents consists in materializing its data elements by invoking the embe...
This paper analyzes the process of automated negotiation between two competitive agents that have firm deadlines and incomplete information about their opponent. Generally speaking...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....