Access to different and remote sources with heterogeneous formats is one of the most important challenges in Enterprise Information Integration. Even though there exists an increa...
Many Internet-based applications have adopted XML as the standard data exchange format. These XML data are typically stored in its native form, thus creating the need to present XM...
XML makes data flexible in representation and easily portable on the Web but it also substantially inflates data size as a consequence of using tags to describe data. Although many...
Optimization of execution plans in information mediators is a critical task, specially when sources are remote and semistructured, as in the case of transactional web sites. Lack ...
The problems of accessing and integrating heterogeneous information sources are becoming centerstage problems. One problem arising from accessing heterogeneous sources is semantic...
Ngamnij Arch-int, Yuefeng Li, Paul Roe, Peraphon S...