A model for query decomposition and answer construction in heterogeneous distributed database systems

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-87

  MacKinnon, Lachlan M ^a   Marwick, David H ^a   Williams, M Howard ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous distributed databases; Intensional structure; Knowledge based systems; Query decomposition

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES;

HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED DATABASES; INTENSIONAL STRUCTURE; KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS; QUERY DECOMPOSITION; ANSWER CONSTRUCTION;

QUERY LANGUAGES; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032123163     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008630910890     Document Type: Article

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