The TSIMMIS Approach to Mediation: Data Models and Languages

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 117-132

  Garcia Molina, Hector ^a   Papakonstantinou, Yannis ^a   Quass, Dallan ^a   Rajaraman, Anand ^a   Sagiv, Yehoshua ^a,b   Ullman, Jeffrey ^a   Vassalos, Vasilis ^a   Widom, Jennifer ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STRUCTURES; QUERY LANGUAGES;

INFORMATION INTEGRATING SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE INFORMATION SOURCES;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031095670     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008683107812     Document Type: Article

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