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...
Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...
The problem of data integration (query decomposition, data fragmentation) has been widely studied in literature, but the inherent hierarchical nature of XML data presents problems...
An inverse of a schema mapping M is intended to "undo" what M does, thus providing a way to perform "reverse" data exchange. In recent years, three different f...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, Wa...
A key observation is that the invariants in database management determine the mapping steps of the supporting architecture. Referring to the multi-layered architecture of record-or...