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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
8349
Venue
VLDB
Year
1996
Pagerank
0.00044607231
Overall Rank
127 | 99.12%
DOI
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82 Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract) 1995 PODS 0.00054430106
138 Query Transformation for PSJ-queries 1987 VLDB 0.00042322097
253 Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems 1996 SIGMOD 0.00030517335
288 Answering Queries Using Templates With Binding Patterns (Extended Abstract) 1995 PODS 0.00028885849
583 Answering Queries with Aggregation Using Views 1996 VLDB 0.00019705383
725 An Algorithm For Ordering Subgoals In Nail! 1988 PODS 0.00017466684
976 Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors 1996 PODS 0.00014877501
1,058 SIMS: Retrieving and Integrating Information From Multiple Sources 1993 SIGMOD 0.00014373326
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