Infomaster: An Information Integration System

Summary: Infomaster provides a virtual data warehouse, dynamically selecting minimal sources to answer a query and harmonizing schemas and data. It connects to diverse sources via wrappers (Z39.50, ODBC, EDI, WWW) and supports structural/content translation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3047
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 8.3634727e-05
Overall Rank: 2,595 | 82.20%
DOI: 10.1145/253260.253400

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Authors

1. Michael R. Genesereth (Stanford University)
2. Arthur M. Keller (Stanford University)
3. Oliver M. Duschka (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{genesereth_sigmod97,
        title = {{Infomaster: An Information Integration System}},
        author = {Genesereth, Michael R. and Keller, Arthur M. and Duschka, Oliver M.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '97},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/253260.253400},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253260.253400},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,517	Computing Capabilities of Mediators	1999	SIGMOD	8.4766353e-05
2,621	WISE-Integrator: An Automatic Integrator of Web Search Interfaces for E-Commerce	2003	VLDB	8.3342664e-05
2,884	Mind Your Vocabulary: Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources	1999	SIGMOD	7.9976626e-05
6,904	Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly	2005	VLDB	5.7425557e-05
12,887	A Case-Based Approach to Information Integration	2000	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,888	Approximate Query Translation Across Heterogeneous Information Sources	2000	VLDB	5.093636e-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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