: A broad variety of data is available in distinct heterogeneous sources, stored under different formats: database formats (in relational and object-oriented models), document form...
Users today are struggling to integrate a broad range of information sources providing di erent levels of query capabilities. Currently, data sources with di erent and limitedcapa...
Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ashish Gupta, Laura M. Ha...
BioMediator is a data integration system that provides a common interface to multiple Internet-accessible databases containing information about genetics and molecular biology. Ont...
Abstract— This paper presents our work on supporting flexible query evaluation over large distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous sources. Flexibility means that the query ev...
Mediator systems integrate distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous data sources, but their e ective use requires the solution of hard query optimization problems. This is usuall...