Lean Middleware

Summary: Lean Middleware for enterprise data integration across diverse sources with minimal DB/middleware maintenance. Introduces a lean, cost-efficient integration model achieving scalable data fusion without heavy infrastructure or bespoke middleware pipelines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3747
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,849 | 4.99%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066247

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Authors

1. David A. Maluf (NASA)
2. David G. Bell (NASA; Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science; Universities Space Research Association)
3. Naveen Ashish (NASA; Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science; Universities Space Research Association)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{maluf_sigmod05,
        title = {{Lean Middleware}},
        author = {Maluf, David A. and Bell, David G. and Ashish, Naveen},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066247},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066247},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,664	Enterprise Information Integration: Successes, Challenges and Controversies	2005	SIGMOD	7.2148176e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,664	Enterprise Information Integration: Successes, Challenges and Controversies	2005	SIGMOD	7.2148176e-05

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