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Towards Exploitation of the Data Universe — Database Technology for Comprehensive Query Services

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Multimedia technology, global information infrastructures and other developments allow users to access more and more information sources of various types. However, the “technical” availability alone (by means of networks, WWW, mail systems, databases, etc.) is not at all sufficient for making meaningful and advanced use of all information available on-line. Therefore, the problem of effectively and efficiently accessing and querying heterogeneous and distributed data sources is an important research direction. This paper aims first at classifying existing approaches which can be used to query heterogeneous data sources. Second, we consider one of the approaches — mediated query systems — in more detail and provide a classification framework for it. Third, we present our own approach, the SINGAPORE system, and point out some issues we are currently working on.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Germany

    Klaus R. Dittrich & Ruxandra Domenig

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  2. Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia

    Maria E. Orlowska (Dsc, Professor) (Dsc, Professor)

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Dittrich, K.R., Domenig, R. (1999). Towards Exploitation of the Data Universe — Database Technology for Comprehensive Query Services. In: Abramowicz, W., Orlowska, M.E. (eds) BIS ’99. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0875-7_20

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