Today, bibliographical information is kept in a variety of data sources world wide, some of them publically available, and some of them also offering information about citations m...
A main problem of data integration is the treatment of conflicts caused by different modeling of real-world entities, different data models or simply by different representations ...
The generation of hypermedia (or Web-based) presentations plays an important role in information management on the World Wide Web. In applications for Web modeling and querying, in...
We describe the architecture of a federated system designed to allow the integration of structured, relational, data together with unstructured multimedia data. Two characteristic...
Alan Cole, Jim Christensen, Howard Sachar, Oleg Du...
In this work, we consider augmenting SQL with constructs allowing dynamic restructuring. Dynamic restructuring occurs naturally in a framework including second-order capabilities f...
Abstract. This paper focuses on the interoperability of autonomous legacy databases with the idea of meeting the future requirements of an organization. It describes a general arch...
New applications from the areas of analytical data processing and data integration require powerful features to condense and reconcile available data. Object-relational and other d...
The existing standard for object-oriented databases (ODMG) provides no facility for storing behaviour. This lack of stored behaviour introduces problems for generic applications as...