A scalable approach to integrating heterogeneous aggregate views of distributed databases

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 232-236

  McClean, Sally ^a   Scotney, Bryan ^a   Greer, Kieran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregate views; Distributed databases; Dynamic ontologies; Kullback Leibler information divergence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DATA WAREHOUSES; GRAPH THEORY; OPTIMIZATION;

STATISTICAL DATABASES;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037247258     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2003.1161592     Document Type: Article

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