The peer-to-peer (P2P) paradigm has emerged recently, mainly by file sharing systems like Napster or Gnutella and in terms of scalable distributed data structures. Because of the d...
A schema mapping is a specification that describes how data structured under one schema (the source schema) is to be transformed into data structured under a different schema (the...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, Wa...
Mapping specification has been recognised as a critical bottleneck to the large scale deployment of data integration systems. A mapping is a description using which data structured...
Lu Mao, Khalid Belhajjame, Norman W. Paton, Alvaro...
As the XML has become a standard for data representation, it is inevitable to propose and implement techniques for efficient managing of XML data. A natural alternative is to expl...
BioMediator is a data integration system that provides a common interface to multiple Internet-accessible databases containing information about genetics and molecular biology. Ont...