Data fusion

J Bleiholder, F Naumann - ACM computing surveys (CSUR), 2009 - dl.acm.org
The development of the Internet in recent years has made it possible and useful to access
many different information systems anywhere in the world to obtain information. While there …

Querying heterogeneous information sources using source descriptions

A Levy, A Rajaraman, J Ordille - 1996 - ilpubs.stanford.edu
We witness a rapid increase in the number of structured information sources that are
available online, especially on the WWW. These sources include commercial databases on …

Data-Centric Systems and Applications

MJ Carey, S Ceri, P Bernstein, U Dayal, C Faloutsos… - 2008 - Springer
Data warehouses are databases of a specific kind that periodically collect information about
the activities being performed by an organization. This information is then accumulated over …

OBSERVER: An approach for query processing in global information systems based on interoperation across pre-existing ontologies

E Mena, A Illarramendi, V Kashyap… - Distributed and parallel …, 2000 - Springer
There has been an explosion in the types, availability and volume of data accessible in an
information system, thanks to the World Wide Web (the Web) and related inter-networking …

Communication system and methods using dynamic expansion for computer networks

ML Howard, CS Sontag - US Patent 5,991,795, 1999 - Google Patents
[57] ABSTRACT A method for exchange of information between a requesting communication
unit and a responding communication unit through an intervening communication unit. The …

GlOSS text-source discovery over the Internet

L Gravano, H Garcia-Molina, A Tomasic - ACM Transactions on …, 1999 - dl.acm.org
The dramatic growth of the Internet has created a new problem for users: location of the
relevant sources of documents. This article presents a framework for (and experimentally …

[PDF][PDF] Semantic heterogeneity in global information systems: The role of metadata, context and ontologies

V Kashyap, A Sheth - … information systems: Current trends and directions, 1998 - dit.unitn.it
Semantic heterogeneity has been identified as one of the most important and toughest
problems when dealing with interoperability and cooperation among multiple databases. It …

Authentication and authorization across autonomous network systems

DE Schmidt, CP Van Dyke, PJ Leach, P Garg… - US Patent …, 2007 - Google Patents
US7185359B2 - Authentication and authorization across autonomous network systems -
Google Patents US7185359B2 - Authentication and authorization across autonomous …

Query answering algorithms for information agents

A Levy, A Rajaraman, J Ordille - 1996 - ilpubs.stanford.edu
The database theory community, centered around the PODS (Principles of Database
Systems) conference has had a long-term interest in logic as a way to represent" data,"" …

Generalizing GlOSS to vector-space databases and broker hierarchies

L Gravano, H Garcia-Molina - 1999 - ilpubs.stanford.edu
As large numbers of text databases have become available on the Internet, it is getting
harder to locate the right sources for given queries. In this paper we present gGlOSS, a …