Abstract

This document is a report on the workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb-03), held in Acapulco, Mexico, on August 9-10, as part of the 2003 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The full proceedings of the workshop are available online [1]. A small sample of the papers presented at the workshop were also included in a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems [2]. Effective integration of heterogeneous databases and information sources has been cited as the most pressing challenge in spheres as diverse as corporate data management, homeland security, counter-terrorism and the human genome project. An important impediment to scaling up integration frameworks to large-scale applications has been the fact that the autonomous and decentralized nature of the data sources constrains the mediators to operate with very little information about the structure, scope, profile, quality …

Date

2003

Authors

Subbarao Kambhampati, Craig A Knoblock

Journal

ACM SIGMOD Record

Volume

32

Issue

4

Pages

122-123

Publisher

ACM