A federated architecture for information management
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
The MYRIAD federated database prototype
SIGMOD '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
InfoSleuth: agent-based semantic integration of information in open and dynamic environments
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
The Context Interchange mediator prototype
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
The TSIMMIS Approach to Mediation: Data Models and Languages
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: next generation information technologies and systems
The grid
A proposed globally distributed federated database: a practical performance evaluation
PDIS '94 Proceedings of the third international conference on on Parallel and distributed information systems
Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of Xml, Soap, Wsdl, and Uddi
Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of Xml, Soap, Wsdl, and Uddi
Federated databases and systems: part I --- a tutorial on their data sharing
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Federated databases and systems: part II --- a tutorial on their resource consolidation
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Scaling Access to Heterogeneous Data Sources with DISCO
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Supporting Dynamic Interactions among Web-Based Information Sources
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Mobile Agents for World Wide Web Distributed Database Access
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions
VLDB '96 Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Report on the Engineering Federated Information Systems 2003 workshop (EFIS 2003)
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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A new architecture of database federation called the MDSSF (Multiple Database Search Service Federation) is presented to support the procurement activities of the AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) industry projects. In order to make procurement decisions, a contractor requires access to product information from several different product suppliers when constructing artefacts such as a hospital, or an office block. This product information is available from the online systems of product suppliers. However, this approach requires a contractor to visit several websites in order to find the right product which is time consuming and the product data available from different product suppliers is heterogeneous. The MDSSF architecture provides an integrated means of accessing product information from a large number of product suppliers using a single system. It brings together autonomous product suppliers to share product information with the federation users such as contractors and potential buyers using a common data model. It also creates an environment for product suppliers to compete with each other in a virtual market place based on the product information they provide to federation users. The MDSSF gives its users a Grid enabled database search mechanism for searching a large number of supplier databases in real time and protects product related sensitive data from exposure to business competitors. We describe the architecture and distinctive features of the MDSSF.