Abstract. Many heterogeneous database system products and prototypes exist today; they will soon be deployed in a wide variety of environments. Most existing systems suffer from an...
The aim of this work is to provide a robust way for peers with heterogeneous data sources to exchange information in an unreliable network. We address this problem in two ways. Fi...
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...
Query processing in data integration occurs over network-bound, autonomous data sources. This requires extensions to traditional optimization and execution techniques for three re...
Zachary G. Ives, Daniela Florescu, Marc Friedman, ...
Access to large numbers of data sources introduces new problems for users of heterogeneous distributed databases. End users and application programmers must deal with unavailable ...
Anthony Tomasic, Louiqa Raschid, Patrick Valduriez