Describing relational data sources (i.e. databases) by means of ontologies constitutes the foundation of most of the semantic based approaches to data access and integration. In sp...
Though designing a data warehouse requires techniques completely different from those adopted for operational systems, no significant effort has been made so far to develop a comp...
Both structured and unstructured data, as well as structured data representing several different types of tuples, may be integrated into a single list for browsing or retrieval. D...
This work is a contribution to the developing literature on multi-resolution data models. It considers operations for model-oriented generalization in the case where the underlying...
Until recently, most data integration techniques involved central components, e.g., global schemas, to enable transparent access to heterogeneous databases. Today, however, with t...