Describing and Using Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources

Summary: Introduces two languages for describing query capabilities of heterogeneous sources and compares their expressive power. Presents matching/translation algorithms to map queries to source-specific forms and improved query answering using these descriptions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hcfb7a9371b801baa
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 7.1515428e-05
Overall Rank: 3,620 | 75.68%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Vasilis Vassalos (Stanford University)
2. Yannis Papakonstantinou (University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@article{vassalos_vldb97,
        title = {{Describing and Using Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources}},
        author = {Vassalos, Vasilis and Papakonstantinou, Yannis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        pages = {256--265},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
824	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013641217
870	Query Optimization in the Presence of Limited Access Patterns	1999	SIGMOD	0.00013342453
2,046	Views and Queries: Determinacy and Rewriting	2005	PODS	9.1331561e-05
4,268	Mapping Adaptation under Evolving Schemas	2003	VLDB	6.6932945e-05
4,479	Filtering with Approximate Predicates	1998	VLDB	6.5797399e-05
5,430	Active Knowledge: Dynamically Enriching RDF Knowledge Bases by Web Services	2010	SIGMOD	6.1313e-05
6,651	Interactive Query Formulation over Web Service-Accessed Sources	2006	SIGMOD	5.7197329e-05
6,970	Efficient Evaluation of Queries in a Mediator for WebSources	2002	SIGMOD	5.6289228e-05
7,407	Compliant Geo-distributed Query Processing	2021	SIGMOD	5.5330861e-05
12,826	ANGIE: Active Knowledge for Interactive Exploration	2009	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
72	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.0003753293
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00031616101
173	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00026814969
301	Answering Queries Using Templates With Binding Patterns (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00021673683
468	Don’t Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00017752831
905	F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme	1989	SIGMOD	0.00013165264
1,052	Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors	1996	PODS	0.00012269616
2,026	Proof-Tree Transformation Theorems and Their Applications	1989	PODS	9.1626332e-05
4,248	Template-Based Wrappers in the TSIMMIS System	1997	SIGMOD	6.7014728e-05

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