TSIMMIS Publications

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Overview

• J. Hammer, H. Garcia-Molina, K. Ireland, Y. Papakonstantinou, J. Ullman, and J. Widom. "Information Translation, Mediation, and Mosaic-Based Browsing in the TSIMMIS System". In Exhibits Program of the Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, page 483, San Jose, California, June 1995.

• H. Garcia-Molina, J. Hammer, K. Ireland, Y. Papakonstantinou, J. Ullman, and Jennifer Widom. "Integrating and Accessing Heterogeneous Information Sources in TSIMMIS". In Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Information Gathering, pp. 61-64, Stanford, California, March 1995.

• Y. Papakonstantinou, H. Garcia-Molina and J. Widom. "Object Exchange Across Heterogeneous Information Sources". IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 251-260, Taipei, Taiwan, March 1995.

• S. Chawathe, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Hammer, K. Ireland, Y. Papakonstantinou, J. Ullman, and J. Widom. "The TSIMMIS Project: Integration of Heterogeneous Information Sources". In Proceedings of IPSJ Conference, pp. 7-18, Tokyo, Japan, October 1994.

• S. Chawathe, H. Garcia-Molina and J. Widom. "Flexible Constraint Management for Autonomous Distributed Databases". IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 23-27, June 1994.

Semistructured Data

• D. Quass, A. Rajaraman, Y. Sagiv, J. Ullman, and J. Widom. "Querying Semistructured Heterogeneous Information". In International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, 1995.

Wrappers

• J. Hammer, M. Breunig, H. Garcia-Molina, S. Nestorov, V. Vassalos, R. Yerneni. "Template-Based Wrappers in the TSIMMIS System". In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Tucson, Arizona, May 12-15, 1997.

• Y. Papakonstantinou, A. Gupta, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Ullman. "A Query Translation Scheme for Rapid Implementation of Wrappers". In International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, 1995.

• J. Hammer, H. Garcia-Molina, K. Ireland, Y. Papakonstantinou, J. Ullman, and J. Widom. "Information Translation, Mediation, and Mosaic-Based Browsing in the TSIMMIS System". In Exhibits Program of the Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, page 483, San Jose, California, June 1995.

• A. Rajaraman, Y. Sagiv, and J. Ullman. "Answering Queries Using Templates with Binding Patterns". In Proceedings of the 14th ACM PODS, pp. 105-112, San Jose, California, May 1995.

Web Extraction

• J. Hammer, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Cho, R. Aranha, and A. Crespo. "Extracting Semistructured Information from the Web". In Proceedings of the Workshop on Management of Semistructured Data. Tucson, Arizona, May 1997.
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Mediators

• Chen Li, Ramana Yerneni, Vasilis Vassalos, Hector Garcia-Molina, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Jeffrey Ullman, Murty Valiveti. "Capability Based Mediation in TSIMMIS". SIGMOD 98 Demo, Seattle, June 1998.

• V. Vassalos , Y. Papakonstantinou. "Describing and Using Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources". In VLDB Conference, Athens, Greece, August 1997.

• H. Garcia-Molina , Y. Papakonstantinou , D. Quass , A. Rajaraman , Y. Sagiv , J. Ullman , V. Vassalos , J. Widom. "The TSIMMIS approach to mediation: Data models and Languages". In Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 1997.

• S. Abiteboul , H. Garcia-Molina , Y. Papakonstantinou , R. Yerneni. "Fusion Query Optimization". Technical Report, 1996.

• Y. Papakonstantinou, S. Abiteboul, H. Garcia-Molina. "Object Fusion in Mediator Systems". In VLDB Conference, Bombay, India, September 1996.

• Y. Papakonstantinou, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Ullman. "Medmaker: A Mediation System Based on Declarative Specifications". In International Conference on Data Engineering, pages 132 - 141, New Orleans, February, 1996.

Information Browsing

• J. Hammer, R. Aranha, K. Ireland. "Browsing Object-Based Databases Through the Web". Technical report, Stanford University, October 1996.
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Constraint Management

• S. Chawathe, H. Garcia-Molina and J. Widom. "A Toolkit for Constraint Management in Heterogeneous Information Systems". In IEEE Twelfth International Data Engineering Conference, pp. 56-65, New Orleans, February 1996.

• S. Chawathe, H. Garcia-Molina and J. Widom. "Flexible Constraint Management for Autonomous Distributed Databases". IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 23-27, June 1994.

Architecture & Implementation

• H. Garcia-Molina and A. Paepcke. "Proposal for I**3 Client Server Protocol". Technical Report, September 1996.