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Design Principles for Secure Integration of Information
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Calmet, Jacques Sch, Joachim |
| Copyright Year | 1995 |
| Abstract | 1 Motivations Over the last few years, the use of the Internet has been growing at a tremendous rate and access to diierent data-and knowledge sources provides a host of information from external and internal sources. This has led to at least three kinds of explosions: the number of users accessing the Internet has grown dramatically, the number of sources of data and software on the Internet has experienced a similar growth, and this had led to an equally impressive growth in the heterogeneity of databases, data formats, data structures and knowledge sources within which the above-mentioned users store their data/knowledge. These are problems that must be taken into account when designing an intelligent decision support system. Indeed, they also partly or fully exist for local area networks (LAN). In our work, we have primarily studied a host of theoretical and practical issues arising out of the third point listed above S93, LNS95, Sch95]. Wiederhold has proposed a layered mediator architecture Wie92, Wie93] to provide end-user applications with information obtained through selection, abstraction, fusion, caching, extrapolation and pruning of data Wie93]. The data is obtained from diierent independently developed data-and knowledge sources. In this ongoing project 1 we have developed techniques not only to facilitate the integration of diierent databases (object-oriented, relational and deductive), but also of arbitrary pieces of information, such as spreadsheets or even on-line information. The underlying theory of this project can be found in S93, LNS95, Sch95]. In this paper, we show how techniques from artiicial intelligence may provide the necessary |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://iaks-www.ira.uka.de/iaks-calmet/papers/idimt-95.ps.gz |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |