Knowledge to Mediate from User’s Workstations to Databases

Summary: Envisions mediators between workstation agents and heterogeneous databases, combining expert knowledge to deliver relevant information rather than raw data. Proposes modular, maintainable agents supporting views, closure, ranking, generalization, and navigational search. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8069
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1989
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Overall Rank: 14,426 | 1.03%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Gio Wiederhold (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wiederhold_vldb89,
        title = {{Knowledge to Mediate from User’s Workstations to Databases}},
        author = {Wiederhold, Gio},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '89},
        pages = {2},
        year = {1989}
}

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