Enhanced active databases for federated information systems

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2006 in the subject Computer Science - Applied, grade: 1.0, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine", language: English, abstract: Federated information systems provide access to interrelated data that is distributed over multiple autonomous and heterogeneous data sources. The integration of these sources demands for flexible and extensible architectures that balance both, the highest possible autonomy and a reasonable degree of information sharing. In current federated information systems, the inte ...