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Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions

Summary: Information Manifold provides uniform access to 100+ heterogeneous web sources via declarative source descriptions. It prunes candidate sources and generates executable query plans, with experiments demonstrating scalability to several hundred sources. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8348
Venue
VLDB
Year
1996
Pagerank
0.00044642203
Overall Rank
127 | 99.12%
DOI
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82 Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract) 1995 PODS 0.00054402763
138 Query Transformation for PSJ-queries 1987 VLDB 0.00042334092
253 Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems 1996 SIGMOD 0.00030569863
291 Answering Queries Using Templates With Binding Patterns (Extended Abstract) 1995 PODS 0.00028831632
584 Answering Queries with Aggregation Using Views 1996 VLDB 0.0001971526
729 An Algorithm For Ordering Subgoals In Nail! 1988 PODS 0.00017483521
976 Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors 1996 PODS 0.0001489085
1,058 SIMS: Retrieving and Integrating Information From Multiple Sources 1993 SIGMOD 0.00014387611
2,966 Integrating Information by Outerjoins and Full Disjunctions (Extended Abstract) 1996 PODS 7.8002072e-05
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