Title :
Logical connectivity: applications, requirements, architecture, and research agenda
Author :
Madnick, Stuart E. ; Wang, Y. Richard
Author_Institution :
Sloan Sch. of Manage., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Presents applications, requirements, an Information Technology (IT) architecture and a research agenda developed to facilitate connectivity among disparate information systems. The applications illustrate the benefits fits of connectivity as well as highlight problems encountered. These connectivity problems are organized into first- and second-order issues. The first-order issues include physical connectivity to heterogeneous databases in a multi-vendor environment. The second-order issues focus on logical connectivity, including schema-level integration, instance-level data semantics reconciliation, inter-database instance identification. and concept inferencing
Keywords :
distributed databases; information retrieval; connectivity; disparate information systems; distributed databases; heterogeneous databases; logical connectivity; multi-vendor environment; schema-level integration; Application software; Computer architecture; Flexible manufacturing systems; Globalization; Information systems; Information technology; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Spatial databases; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1991. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kauai, HI
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1991.183880
