A framework for abstracting data sources having heterogeneous representation formats

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-38

  Rosaci, D ^a   Terracina, G ^b   Ursino, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inter scheme properties; Scheme abstraction; Semi structured information sources; Source summarization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERNET; XML;

DATA SOURCES;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 0242490452     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(03)00092-2     Document Type: Article

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