Whereas search engines assist users in locating initial information sources, often an overwhelmingly large number of ULRs is returned, and the task of browsing websites rests heavi...
Semantic integration is an active area of research in several disciplines, such as databases, information-integration, and ontologies. This paper provides a brief survey of the ap...
This paper surveys the area of biological and genomic sources integration, which has recently become a major focus of the data integration research field. The challenges that an i...
As databases become more pervasive through the biological sciences, various data quality issues regarding data legacy, data uniformity and data duplication arise. Due to the natur...
Katherine G. Herbert, Narain H. Gehani, William H....
We discuss four different core protocols for synchronizing access to and modifications of XML document collections. These core protocols synchronize structure traversals and modif...
Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moerkotte
Mobile users today demand ubiquitous access to their data from any mobile device and under variable connection quality. We refer to this requirement as any-time, any-where data ac...
Snapshot Isolation (SI), is a multi-version concurrency control algorithm introduced in [BBGMOO95] and later implemented by Oracle. SI avoids many concurrency errors, and it never ...
Alan Fekete, Elizabeth J. O'Neil, Patrick E. O'Nei...
A schema mapping produces a semantic correspondence between two schemas. Automating schema mapping is challenging. The existence of 1:n (or n:1) and n:m mapping cardinalities make...
Schema matching is a critical problem for integrating heterogeneous information sources. Traditionally, the problem of matching multiple schemas has essentially relied on finding ...