Abstract. In the Web environment, rich, diverse sources of heterogeneous and distributed data are ubiquitous. In fact, even the information characterizing a single entity - like, f...
Muhammad Intizar Ali, Reinhard Pichler, Hong Linh ...
The XML Wrapper is a new feature of the federated database capabilities of DB2/UDB v8. It enables users and applications to issue SQL queries against XML data from a variety of so...
Integration of multiple heterogeneous data sources continues to be a critical problem for many application domains and a challenge for researchers world-wide. With the increasing ...
Abstract. Schema mappings play a central role in both data integration and data exchange, and are understood as high-level specifications describing the relationships between data...
Functional dependencies (FDs) are an integral part of database theory since they are used in integrity enforcement and in database design. Recently, functional dependencies satis...