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Integration of Weakly Heterogeneous Semistructured Data

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While most business applications typically operate on structured data that can be effectively managed using relational databases, some applications use more complex semistructured data that lacks a stable schema. XML techniques are available for the management of semistructured data, but such techniques tend to be ineffective when applied to large amounts of heterogeneous data, in particular in applications with complex query requirements. We describe an approach that relies on the mapping of multiple semistructured data sets to object-relational structures and uses an object-relational database to support complex query requirements. As an example we use weakly heterogeneous oceanographic data.

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This research has been partially supported by the National Program of Research, Information Society Project No. 1ET100300419 and also by the grants of GACR No. GA201/09/0990, GA201/06/0175, and GA201/06/0648.

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    George Feuerlicht

  2. University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

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  3. Charles University of Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Pokorný & Karel Richta

  4. Kanchanaburi Rajabhat University, Kanchanaburi, Thailand

    Narongdech Ruttananontsatean

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  1. Dept. Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    George Angelos Papadopoulos

  2. College of Business & Economics, Dept. Information Technology &, Boise State University, Univesity Dr. 1910, Boise, 83725-1615, Idaho, USA

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Feuerlicht, G., Pokorný, J., Richta, K., Ruttananontsatean, N. (2009). Integration of Weakly Heterogeneous Semistructured Data. In: Papadopoulos, G., Wojtkowski, W., Wojtkowski, G., Wrycza, S., Zupancic, J. (eds) Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/b137171_8

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