Information often comes from different sources and merging these sources usually leads to the apparition of inconsistencies. Fusion is the operation which consists in restoring th...
The inter-operability of multiple autonomous and heterogeneous data sources is an important issue in many applications such as mediation systems, datawarehouses, or web-based syst...
State-of-the-art middleware for component-based distributed applications requires openness to support a broad and varying range of services. It also requires powerful and maintaina...
We consider the problem of encoding Boolean cardinality constraints in conjunctive normal form (CNF). Boolean cardinality constraints are formulae expressing that at most (resp. at...
In heterogeneous data warehousing environments, autonomous data sources are integrated into a materialized integrated database. The schemas of the data sources and the integrated ...