An adaptive object-oriented approach to integration and access of heterogeneous information sources

Liu, Ling

An adaptive object-oriented approach to integration and access of heterogeneous information sources

A large-scale interoperable database system operating in a dynamic environment should provide Uniform access to heterogeneous information sources, Scalability to the growing number of information sources, Evolution and Composability of software and information sources,and Autonomy of participants,both information consumers and information producers. We refer to these set of properties as the USECA properties


INTEROPERABILITY
DISTRIBUTED DATA MANAGEMENT
OBJECT-ORIENTED DATA MODEL
INTELLIGENT INTEGRATION
HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION SOURCES
QUERY MEDIATION

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