Quality-Driven Query Answering for Integrated Information Systems

• Main Author: Naumann, Felix (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2261
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Information storage and retrieval.; Database management.; Application software.; Computer communication systems.; Popular Computer Science.; Data Structures and Information Theory.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Database Management.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computer Communication Networks.

The Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are becoming more and more important in our highly interconnected world as more and more data and information is made available for online access. Many individuals and governmental, commercial, cultural, and scientific organizations increasingly depend on in...

Table of Contents:

• Querying the Web
• Integrating Autonomous Information Sources
• Information Quality
• Information Quality Criteria
• Quality Ranking Methods
• Quality-Driven Query Answering
• Quality-Driven Query Planning
• Query Planning Revisited
• Completeness of Data
• Completeness-Driven Query Optimization
• Discussion
• Conclusion.