Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between database schemas. Schema mappings are prominent in several different areas of database managem...
Data integration systems often provide a uniform query interface, called a mediated schema, to a multitude of data sources. To answer user queries, such systems employ a set of se...
Inter-business collaborative contexts prefigure a distributed scenario where companies organize and coordinate themselves to develop common and shared opportunities. Traditional b...
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...
A serious problem facing many organizations today is the need to share information among systems that have been developed separately. Conflicts in the structure and semantics of t...