Approximate Query Translation Across Heterogeneous Information Sources

Summary: Framework for approximate Boolean query translation across heterogeneous sources, with a closeness metric blending precision and recall. Rule-based semantic units encode mappings; queries rewritten into units yield optimal translations under practical assumptions, demonstrated by a case study. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8682
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 12,704 | 11.71%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Chen-Chuan K. Chang
2. Hector Garcia-Molina

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
127	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00044607231
152	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00040979242
288	Answering Queries Using Templates With Binding Patterns (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00028885849
345	Don't Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00026634783
469	On Saying "Enough Already!" in SQL	1997	SIGMOD	0.00022397468
489	Your Mediators Need Data Conversion!	1998	SIGMOD	0.00021989648
976	Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors	1996	PODS	0.00014877501
1,386	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective	1997	PODS	0.00012251453
1,780	Reducing the Braking Distance of an SQL Query Engine	1998	VLDB	0.00010558417
1,870	Infomaster: An Information Integration System	1997	SIGMOD	0.00010261071
2,327	Mind Your Vocabulary: Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources	1999	SIGMOD	9.0251624e-05
3,744	A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources	1995	VLDB	6.7938433e-05
4,405	Filtering with Approximate Predicates	1998	VLDB	6.2048285e-05
4,846	The Design and Implementation of CoBase	1993	SIGMOD	5.8727406e-05
6,751	Can Datalog be approximated?	1994	PODS	4.9352222e-05
7,884	Finding Nonrecursive Envelopes for Datalog Predicates	1993	PODS	4.6233362e-05

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