Information systems are the backbone of many of today's computerized applications. Distributed databases and the infrastructure needed to support them have been well studied. However, this book is the first to address distributed database interoperability by examining the successes and failures, various approaches, infrastructures, and trends of the field. A gap exists in the way that these systems have been investigated by real practitioners. This gap is more pronounced than usual, partly because of the way businesses operate, the systems they have, and the difficulties created by systems' autonomy and heterogeneity. Telecommunications firms, for example, must deal with an increased demand for automation while at the same time continuing to function at their current level. While academics are focusing on investigating differences between distributed databases, federated databases, heterogeneous databases, and, more generally, among loosely connected and tightly coupled systems, those who have to deal with real problems right away know that the only relevant research is the one that will ensure that their system works to produce reasonably correct results. Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems covers the underlying principles and infrastructures needed to realize truly global information systems. The book discusses technologies related to middleware, the Web, workflows, transactions, and data warehousing. It also overviews architectures with a discussion of critical issues. The book gives an overview of systems that can be viewed as learning platforms. While these systems do not translate to successful commercial realities, they push the envelope in terms of research. Successful commercial systems have benefited from the experiments conducted in these prototypes. The book includes two case studies based on the authors' own work. Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems issuitable as a textbook for a graduate-level course on Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems, as well as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on database or information systems, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
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Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems issuitable as a textbook for a graduate-level course on Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems, as well as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on database or information systems, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
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1. Introduction.- 2. Modeling Architecture.- 2.1 Terminology.- 2.2 Global Schema Integration.- 2.3 Federated Database Systems.- 2.4 Multidatabase Language Approach.- 3. Critical Aspects of Interoperability.- 3.1 Schema and Language Translation.- 3.2 Schema Integration.- 3.3 Query Processing.- 3.4 Transactions.- 4. Research And Commercial Products.- DAPLEX.- 4.2 IRIS.- 4.3 Pegasus.- 4.4 Comandos Integration System.- 4.5 Federated Objectbase System.- 4.6 Myriad.- 4.7 Multibase.- 4.8 Mermaid.- 4.9 SIMS Project.- 4.10 InterBase.- 4.11 OMNIBASE.- 4.12 Other Systems.- 5. Middleware.- 5.1 CORBA.- 5.2 OLE/COM.- 5.3 DCE.- 5.4 OpenDoc.- 5.5 ANSAware.- 5.6 Other Relevant Middleware Technologies.- 5.7 Conclusion.- 6. Research Trends.- 6.1 Information Sharing on the Web.- 6.2 Transactional Workflows.- 6.3 Advances in Data Warehousing.- 7. Case Study 1: Webfindit Prototype.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Design Overview.- 7.3 WebTassili Language.- 7.4 Implementing WebFINDIT.- 7.5 Scalability Evaluation.- 7.6 Related Work.- 7.7 Conclusion.- 8. Case Study 2: A Transaction-Oriented Workflow Environment.- 8.1 TOWE Architecture.- 8.2 Process Definition.- 8.3 Implementation.- 8.4 Conclusion.- References.
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ISBN
9780792382164
Publisert
1998-07-31
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Vendor
Springer
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, UU, UP, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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