Querying Autonomous, Heterogeneous Information Sources

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Table of Contents

PPT Slide

Information Resides on Heterogeneous Information Sources

TSIMMIS Provides Integrated View of Heterogeneous Data

Challenges

Integration Architecture

Declarative Specification of Wrappers and Mediators

Data Model

OEM and XML

XML

Challenges

Integration Task

Tree Specification Language

TSL Continued - Fusion

Theory

TSL and MSL

Challenges

Integration Task

Locate Data: Query Decomposition

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TSL vs MSL continued

Challenges

Problem: Limited Query Capabilities

Capability-Based Mediation

Query Rewriting Using Views

Query Rewriting Example

General Algorithm for Rewriting

Algorithm Generalization

CBR for More Expressive Languages

Challenges

System Architecture

Plan Generation Module

System Architecture II - Wrapper

Template Power and Postprocessing

Conclusions

Related Work

Other Contributions

Improving Availability

Future Work

Realizing The Web’s Full Potential

Acknowledgements

Email: vassalos@db.stanford.edu

Home Page: http://www-db.stanford.edu/~vassalos