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The classic problem of information integration has been addressed for a long time. The Semantic Web project is aiming to define an infrastructure that enables machine understanding on the Web. This is a vision that tackles the problem of semantic heterogeneity by using ontologies for information sharing. Although designed to be used on the entire Web, the ideas behind the Semantic Web can be used in a federated database environment, in which the data sources are previously known and there is a global schema, described in an ontology, which enables data integration. Agents have an important role in this infrastructure. Based on ontologies, software agents will be capable of finding the correct data on the adequate sites of the federation, and achieve the integration process as soon as possible. In this paper we present a solution, known as DIA (Data Integration using Agents), for semantic integration of federated databases using mobile agents and ontologies. Also, we present an itinerary classification which aims to improve the data integration process.
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Medcraft, P.S., Schiel, U., Baptista, C.S. (2003). Database Integration Using Mobile Agents. In: Klusch, M., Omicini, A., Ossowski, S., Laamanen, H. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents VII. CIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2782. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45217-1_12
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