The world-wide-web does not support referential integrity, i.e. dangling references do exist. This can be very annoying; in particular, if a user pays for some service in the form...
Applications are often designed to take advantage of the potential for integration with each other via shared information. Current approaches for integration are limited, affectin...
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it di cult to retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way to achieve this integration is by building sp...
Infomaster is an information integration system. It provides integrated access to distributed, heterogeneous information sources, thus giving its users the illusion of a centraliz...
Information integration systems have to cope with the different and limited query interfaces of the underlying information sources. First, the integration systems need description...