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A gap exists in the way that these systems have been investigated by real practitioners. This gap is more pronounced than usual, partly because of the way businesses operate, the systems they have, and the difficulties created by systems' autonomy and heterogeneity. Telecommunications firms, for example, must deal with an increased demand for automation while at the same time continuing to function at their current level. While academics are focusing on investigating differences between distributed databases, federated databases, heterogeneous databases, and, more generally, among loosely connected and tightly coupled systems, those who have to deal with real problems right away know that the only relevant research is the one that will ensure that their system works to produce reasonably correct results.
Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems covers the underlying principles and infrastructures needed to realize truly global information systems. The book discusses technologies related to middleware, the Web, workflows, transactions, and data warehousing. It also overviews architectures with a discussion of critical issues. The book gives an overview of systems that can be viewed as learning platforms. While these systems do not translate to successful commercial realities, they push the envelope in terms of research. Successful commercial systems have benefited from the experiments conducted in these prototypes. The book includes two case studies based on the authors' own work.
Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems issuitable as a textbook for a graduate-level course on Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems, as well as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on database or information systems, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
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Book Title: Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems
Authors: Athman Bouguettaya, Boualem Benatallah, Ahmed Elmagarmid
Series Title: Advances in Database Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5567-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8216-4Published: 31 July 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7546-3Published: 12 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5567-4Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1386-2944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 218
Topics: Business Mathematics, IT in Business, Data Structures and Information Theory, Computer Communication Networks, Information Storage and Retrieval