SIMS: Retrieving and Integrating Information From Multiple Sources

Summary: SIMS: a knowledge-server that retrieves and integrates information from multiple heterogeneous sources. Reformulates Loom-based user queries into subqueries, builds an optimized execution plan to order and combine them, and executes with efficiency and reliability; prototype demonstrated in transportation planning. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2770
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 0.0001094675
Overall Rank: 1,388 | 90.48%
DOI: 10.1145/170035.171566

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Authors

1. Yigal Arens (University of Southern California)
2. Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{arens_sigmod93,
        title = {{SIMS: Retrieving and Integrating Information From Multiple Sources}},
        author = {Arens, Yigal and Knoblock, Craig},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.171566},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.171566},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00032192665
917	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013224381
1,031	Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors	1996	PODS	0.0001253927
1,609	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective	1997	PODS	0.00010225236
1,708	Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures	1998	SIGMOD	9.958846e-05
2,117	Obtaining Complete Answers from Incomplete Databases	1996	VLDB	9.1434045e-05
2,901	A Framework for Supporting Data Integration Using the Materialized and Virtual Approaches	1996	SIGMOD	7.9774387e-05
4,709	Information Integration: the MOMIS Project Demonstration	2000	VLDB	6.551283e-05
9,139	iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management	2006	VLDB	5.3160527e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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