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The Carnot Heterogeneous Database Project: Implemented Applications

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The Carnot project was an ambitious research project inheterogeneous databases. It integrated a variety of techniques toaddress a wide range of problems in achieving interoperation inheterogeneous environments. Here we describe some of the majorimplemented applications of this project. These applications concern(a) accessing a legacy scientific database, (b) automating a workflowinvolving legacy systems, (c) cleaning data, and (d) retrievingsemantically appropriate information from structured databases inresponse to text queries. These applications support scientificdecision support, business process management, data integrityenhancement, and analytical decision support, respectively. Theydemonstrate Carnot‘s capabilities for (a) heterogeneous queryprocessing, (b) relaxed transaction and workflow management, (c)knowledge discovery, and (d) heterogeneous resource modelintegration.

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    Munindar P. Singh, Philip E. Cannata, Michael N. Huhns, Nigel Jacobs, Tomasz Ksiezyk, Kayliang Ong, Amit P. Sheth, Christine Tomlinson & Darrell Woelk

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Singh, M.P., Cannata, P.E., Huhns, M.N. et al. The Carnot Heterogeneous Database Project: Implemented Applications. Distributed and Parallel Databases 5, 207–225 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008645509474

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