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Object-oriented multidatabase systems (also referred to as federated databases or heterogeneous databases) represents the confluence of various trends in computer science and technology [BGP97], among them object-orientation [CB+97], distributed databases, and interoperability. Recently, the Internet has become the major vehicle in networking industry for information access and dissemination. The Web as a service on top of the Internet focuses on transparent Internet navigation and hypermedia document oriented information access. Thus, today there is a need to integrate the object-oriented multidatabase technology with hypermedia documents. This paper discusses the integration of hypermedia documents within the IRO-DB federated database system [Gar97]. It proposes the use of conceptual modeling coupled with intelligent agents to integrate semi-structured files within the IRO-DB query process.
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Gardarin, G., Sha, F. (1999). Using Conceptual Modeling and Intelligent Agents to Integrate Semi-structured Documents in Federated Databases. In: Goos, G., et al. Conceptual Modeling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1565. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48854-5_8
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