Spice: A flexible architecture for integrating autonomous databases to comprise a distributed catalogue of life

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1873, Issue , 2000, Pages 981-992

  Jones, Andrew C ^a   Xu, Xuebiao ^a   Pittas, Nick ^a   Gray, W Alex ^a   Fiddian, Nick J ^a   White, Richard J ^b   Robinson, John ^b   Bisby, Frank A ^c   Brandt, Sue M ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS;

DATA MATCHING; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE; FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURES; HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE; KNOWLEDGE LEVEL; MISSING DATA; TAXONOMIC DATABASE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84947943507     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44469-6_92     Document Type: Conference Paper

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