`Intelligent Integration of Information'

It provides an overview of several projects that try to add value to traditional database and web acess. It contains the following papers

1. Editor's Foreword: G. Wiederhold.
2. Query Reformulation for Dynamic Information Integration: Y. Arens, Craig Knoblock, and Wei-Min Shen.
3. Information Mediation in Cyberspace: Scalable Methods for Declarative Information Networks: S. Dao and B. Perry.
4. An Approach to Information Mediation in the Industrial Domain: A. Goldschmidt.
5. NCL: A Common Language for Achieving Rule-Based Interoperability Among Heterogeneous Systems: S.Y.W. Su, et al.
6. Generating Data Integration Mediators that Use Materialization: G. Zhou, et al.
7. CoBase: A Scalable and Extensible Cooperative Information System: W.W. Chu, et al.
8. Integrating Information via Matchmaking: D. Kuokka and L. Harada.
9. Glossary: G. Wiederhold.

I wish it were less costly, but it does provide a useful reference, a snapshot of the field, and the concepts in mediated architectures.
I attach Kluwer's order form for those who want to obtain it.
Gio

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