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

Volume

i

fYear

1991

fDate

8-11 Jan 1991

Firstpage

142

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1991. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1991.183880

Filename

183880