DIKE: A system supporting the semi-automatic construction of cooperative information systems from heterogeneous databases

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 847-884

  Palopoli, Luigi ^a   Terracina, Giorgio ^b   Ursino, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooperative information systems; Data repository; Database integration and abstraction; Description logics; Inter schema properties; Mediator based architecture

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; DATA ACQUISITION; SEMANTICS;

COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0042200748     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.531     Document Type: Article

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