In the past few years, much attention has been paid to the study of semistructured data, i.e., data with irregular, possibly unstable, and rapidly changing structure, and, in part...
Pervasive information systems give an overview of what digital environments should look like in the future. From a data-centric point of view, traditional databases have to be used...
Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) is a process that can include steps like forming the data set, data transformations, discovery of patterns, searching for exceptions to a pat...
Wrapping databases allows them to be reused in formerly unplanned contexts, such as web-based applications or federated systems. Indeed, a wrapper can provide external clients of ...
Philippe Thiran, Jean-Luc Hainaut, Geert-Jan Hoube...
: Information integration requires manipulating data and metadata in ways that in general go beyond a single existing transformation formalism. As a result, a complete source-to-ta...