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A User Management System for Federated Databases Using Web Services

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A federated database system (FDBS) is a distributed system that consists of a number of autonomous and heterogeneous database management systems (DBMS). Administration of a FDBS is a challenging task due to the heterogeneity of database management systems in the FDBS, heterogeneous platforms these DBMS are deployed on, and non-standard access protocols these systems provide. One of the important tasks in the management of FDBS is user management. In this paper we propose a new architecture for user management in FDBS, based on the “web services” middleware. The system includes a Central Controller for maintaining a directory of component databases, database access roles, and users. Each database component and the Central Controller are accessed via web services providers that are deployed on each component site. These web services are lightweight interfaces hiding the heterogeneity of different platforms. The system is highly scalable and portable. New DBMS can be easily added to the FDBS after the web services interfaces for the regarding DBMS are installed on the component sites.

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

    Fuyu Liu

  2. Computer Engineering Dept., TOBB Economics and Technology University, Ankara, Turkey

    Erdogan Dogdu

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. OptimaNumerics Ltd.,, Cathedral House 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

    Hyunseung Choo

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Liu, F., Dogdu, E. (2006). A User Management System for Federated Databases Using Web Services. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3983. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751632_10

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