Database integration is a growing and increasingly important field in both research and industry. Integration requires many steps from initial schema integration and schema mapping, to data scrubbing and cleansing, and ...

Genome databases store data about molecular biological entities such as genes, proteins, diseases, etc. The main purpose of creating and maintaining such databases in commercial organizations is their importance in the ...

Information quality (IQ) is one of the most important aspects of information integration on the Internet. Many projects realize and address this fact by gathering and classifying IQ criteria. Hardly ever do the projects ...

Today the syntax of many languages is defined by using context-free grammars. These syntax definitions suffer from a major drawback: grammars do not allow the definition of abstract, reusable concept definitions. Especially ...

Data integration in complex domains, such as the life sciences, involves either manual data curation, offering highest information quality at highest price, or follows a schema integration and mapping approach, leading to ...

Research and business is currently moving from centralized databases towards information systems integrating distributed and autonomous data sources. Simultaneously, it is a well acknowledged fact that ...

Die jüngste Entwicklung von zentralisierten Datenbankmanagementsystemen zu Informationssystemen, die verteilte, autonome Datenquellen integrieren, hat zu einer Verschiebung der Forschungsrichtung von der traditionellen ...