Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston MA, July 1996.
Summary.
Keywords: mediators, heterogeneous information
This book collects articles on topics in Intelligent Integration of Information (I3). The focus on Integration defines tasks that increase the value of information when information from multiple sources is accessed, related, and combined. The problem to be addressed is that integration over the ever-expanding number of resources available leads to information overload. Data overload makes it nearly impossible to extract sufficiently relevant infor- mation to lead to decisions and action out of a haystack of data. Contents: Wiederhold: foreword; Knoblock, Arens, Shen: Query Reformulation; Son Dao, Perry: Information Mediation in Cyberspace; Golds[Bchmidt: National industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (NIIIP); Su, Lam, Yu, Arroyo, Yang, Lee: The NIIIP Common Language; Zhou, Hull, King: Generating Data Mediators; Chu, Yang, Chiang: CoBase: A Scalable and Extensible Cooperative Information System; Kuokka, Harada: Integrating Information via Matchmaking; Wiederhold: Glossary.