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A Portable System for Integrating Inconsistent and Partial Information Sources (SIMSPORT)

Authors: Yigal Arens; UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MARINA DEL REY INFORMATION SCIENCES INST
Abstract:
The objective of this effort was to provide support for the integration, enhancement, transition, and evaluation of component technologies produced from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) intelligent Integration of Information (1*3), Intelligent Collaboration and Visualization (IC&V), and Information Management (IM) programs. This effort investigated and developed techniques to extend the capabilities of SIMS to integrate data that is incorrect, inconsistent, and/or missing. The SIMS approach was extended to deal with HTML documents accessible through the HTTP protocol. Data mining techniques were used to create automated and semi- automated modeling facilities. A facility for searching for patterns present in data and in the database structure of new sources was created. Overall, this effort has made the integration of multiple, distributed, inconsistent information sources a practical reality and easily portable at reasonable cost.

Limitations: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Description: Final rept Sep 1997-Apr 2000
Pages: 88
Report Date: JAN 2002
Contract Number: F30602-97-2-0352
Report Number: A615993
Keywords relating to this report:
*DATA BASES
*INFORMATION SYSTEMS
*INTEGRATION
*SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
AUTOMATION
COSTS
DATA MANAGEMENT
DATA PROCESSING
FACILITIES
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
METHODOLOGY
MODELS
SEMIAUTOMATIC
SOURCES
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