Computing Capabilities of Mediators

Summary: Framework to compute mediator capabilities from source capabilities in data integration. Algorithms compute the mediator's supported query set under source limits, considering mediator-level techniques to broaden reach. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3182
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 8.4766353e-05
Overall Rank: 2,517 | 82.74%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304221

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Authors

1. Ramana Yerneni (Stanford University)
2. Chen Li (Stanford University)
3. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)
4. Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yerneni_sigmod99,
        title = {{Computing Capabilities of Mediators}},
        author = {Yerneni, Ramana and Li, Chen and Garcia-Molina, Hector and Ullman, Jeffrey},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304221},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304221},
        year = {1999}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
552	Extending Query Rewriting Techniques for Fine-Grained Access Control	2004	SIGMOD	0.00016630306
851	Query Optimization in the Presence of Limited Access Patterns	1999	SIGMOD	0.00013611183
6,536	Interactive Query Formulation over Web Service-Accessed Sources	2006	SIGMOD	5.8486657e-05
8,383	MetaQuerier: Querying Structured Web Sources On-the-fly	2005	SIGMOD	5.4369427e-05
9,093	Efficiently Ordering Subgoals with Access Constraints [Extended Abstract]	2006	PODS	5.3251649e-05
12,648	CLIDE: Interactive Query Formulation for Service Oriented Architectures	2007	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,849	The Denodo Data Integration Platform	2002	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 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
2,595	Infomaster: An Information Integration System	1997	SIGMOD	8.3634727e-05
4,542	Capability Based Mediation in TSIMMIS	1998	SIGMOD	6.6395511e-05

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