An approach for the extensional integration of data sources with heterogeneous representation formats

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 291-331

  Pontieri, Luigi ^a   Ursino, Domenico ^b   Zumpano, Ester ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data sources; Extensional integration; Heterogeneous representation formats

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; XML;

DATA SOURCES;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037911561     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(02)00192-1     Document Type: Article

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