Abstract

With the current explosion of data, retrieving and integrating information from various sources is a critical problem. Work in multidatabase systems has begun to address this problem, but it has primarily focused on methods for communicating between databases and requires significant effort for each new database added to the system. This paper describes a more general approach that exploits a semantic model of a problem domain to integrate the information from various information sources. The information sources handled include both databases and knowledge bases, and other information sources (e.g. programs) could potentially be incorporated into the system. This paper describes how both the domain and the information sources are modeled, shows how a query at the domain level is mapped into a set of queries to individual information sources, and presents algorithms for automatically improving the …

Date

January 1, 1970

Authors

Yigal Arens, Chin Y Chee, Chun-Nan Hsu, Craig A Knoblock

Journal

International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems

Volume

2

Issue

02

Pages

127-158

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Company