Today’s data integration systems must be flexible enough to support the typical iterative and incremental process of integration, and may need to scale to hundreds of data sour...
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...
XML is fast becoming the standard for information exchange on the Internet. As such, information expressed in XML will need to be integrated with existing information systems, whi...
Biological web data sources have now become essential information sources for researchers. However, their use is tedious, labor-intensive, repetitive, and possibly involve the int...
In this paper, we demonstrate the use of the ESTEST system, which combines the data integration approach with techniques from Information Extraction in order to allow information ...