Supporting dynamic interactions among web-based information sources

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 779-801

  Bouguettaya, Athman ^a,b   Benatallah, Boualem ^c   Hendra, Lily ^d   Ouzzani, Mourad ^a,b   Beard, James ^e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Litton PRC   (United States)

^e CiTR Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE; DATA SHARING; SEMISTRUCTURED DATA; WEB AGENT; WEB DATABASES; WEB QUERYING;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WEB BROWSERS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0034268362     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.877508     Document Type: Article

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