Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
Interoperability of multiple autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
Object-oriented analysis and design with applications (2nd ed.)
Object-oriented analysis and design with applications (2nd ed.)
Communications of the ACM
ACM SIGMOD Record
Prototype implementation of the integrated genomic database
Computers and Biomedical Research
Client/server programming with Java and CORBA
Client/server programming with Java and CORBA
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 object database standard: ODMG 2.0
The object database standard: ODMG 2.0
Managing semantic heterogeneity in databases: a theoretical prospective
PODS '97 Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
The DARPA knowledge sharing effort: progress report
Readings in agents
Multiagent systems
Distributed problem solving and planning
Multiagent systems
Industrial and practical applications of DAI
Multiagent systems
An overview and classification of mediated query systems
ACM SIGMOD Record
Information system integration
Communications of the ACM
An agent-based approach for building complex software systems
Communications of the ACM
A multi-agent system for automated genomic annotation
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Resolving semantic heterogeneity in schema integration
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Multi-Agent Systems: An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Why the elf acted autonomously: towards a theory of adjustable autonomy
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
Heterogeneous database integration in biomedicine
Computers and Biomedical Research
Description Logics in Data Management
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
Describing and Using Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources
VLDB '97 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
A Multi-agent Bioinformatics Integration System with Adjustable Autonomy
PRICAI '02 Proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Trends in Artificial Intelligence
Applying Agents to Bioinformatics in GeneWeaver
CIA '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents IV, The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
ECAI '96 Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
On the Use of Agents in BioInformatics Grid
CCGRID '03 Proceedings of the 3st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Towards heterogeneous multimedia information systems: the Garlic approach
RIDE '95 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering-Distributed Object Management (RIDE-DOM'95)
A multi-agent system for the quantitative simulation of biological networks
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Integrating Agent-Based Mixed-Initiative Control with an Existing Multi-Agent Planning System
Integrating Agent-Based Mixed-Initiative Control with an Existing Multi-Agent Planning System
DiscoveryLink: a system for integrated access to life sciences data sources
IBM Systems Journal - Deep computing for the life sciences
Transparent access to multiple bioinformatics information sources
IBM Systems Journal - Deep computing for the life sciences
The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Agents acting and moving in healthcare scenario - a paradigm for telemedical collaboration
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Architecture of a mediator for a bioinformatics database federation
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Building a bioinformatics ontology using OIL
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Methodological Review: Data integration and genomic medicine
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
An agent- and ontology-based system for integrating public gene, protein, and disease databases
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Engineering agent-mediated integration of bioinformatics analysis tools
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Multi-agent systems for medicine, computational biology, and bioinformatics
Multiagent Framework for Bio-data Mining
RSKT '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology
Information integration in bioinformatics with ontologies and standards
Semantic techniques for the web
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Vast amounts of life sciences data are scattered around the world in the form of a variety of heterogeneous data sources. The need to be able to co-relate relevant information is fundamental to increase the overall knowledge and understanding of a specific subject. Bioinformaticians aspire to find ways to integrate biological data sources for this purpose and system integration is a very important research topic. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of important integration issues that should be considered when designing a bioinformatics integration system. The currently prevailing approach for integration is presented with examples of bioinformatics information systems together with their main characteristics. Here, we introduce agent technology and we argue why it provides an appropriate solution for designing bioinformatics integration systems.