Capability Based Mediation in TSIMMIS

Summary: Capability-based mediation in TSIMMIS uses query templates to capture source capabilities and prevent infeasible plans. Representing capabilities with templates and wrappers, the mediator yields executable query plans that respect per-source limits over a semi-structured OEM. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3134
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 6.6395511e-05
Overall Rank: 4,542 | 68.84%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276382

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Chen Li (Stanford University)
2. Ramana Yerneni (Stanford University)
3. Vasilis Vassalos (Stanford University)
4. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)
5. Yannis Papakonstantinou (University of California San Diego)
6. Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University)
7. Murty Valiveti (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{li_sigmod98,
        title = {{Capability Based Mediation in TSIMMIS}},
        author = {Li, Chen and Yerneni, Ramana and Vassalos, Vasilis and Garcia-Molina, Hector and Papakonstantinou, Yannis and Ullman, Jeffrey and Valiveti, Murty},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276382},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276382},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
22	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00056204792
2,114	Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data	1999	SIGMOD	9.1481121e-05
2,517	Computing Capabilities of Mediators	1999	SIGMOD	8.4766353e-05
6,904	Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly	2005	VLDB	5.7425557e-05
7,867	ForBackBench: A Benchmark for Chasing vs. Query-Rewriting	2022	VLDB	5.5277527e-05
9,093	Efficiently Ordering Subgoals with Access Constraints [Extended Abstract]	2006	PODS	5.3251649e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00032192665
171	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00027363924
298	Answering Queries Using Templates With Binding Patterns (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00022138018
457	Don’t Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00018120468
4,172	Template-Based Wrappers in the TSIMMIS System	1997	SIGMOD	6.8535493e-05

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