Federated database management system: Requirements, issues and solutions

Abstract. The requirements of a traditional integration of databases include hiding the heterogeneity among its member databases, preserving their autonomy, supporting controlled data sharing, and providing a user-friendly interface, with a performance comparable to that of a homogeneous distributed database system. In this paper, we describe a variation of the loosely coupled federated database approach that satisfies these requirements and is specifically oriented toward the special characteristics and needs of molecular biology databases. The approach differs from the traditional federated database approach in that it also integrates software tools together with the databases. In addition, the system gives the graphical user interface a more central role in the integration. Thus, the system has all the advantages provided by a visual user environment and is thus more user-friendly than traditional linguistic approaches. The paper also includes a description of XBio, a system which constructs such an integration. The design of XBio ensures robustness and can be customized to the needs of different classes of users.

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“…The terminology and concepts used in the paper follow those in Sheth and Larson [14] and Kamel and Kamel [8].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 97%

An approach for building an integrated environment for molecular biology databases

Kamel

Song

Kamel

1993

Distrib Parallel Databases

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“…Data Sharing and Exchange : Within one single application domain, the design data and information are directly accessed and shared by all the CAD tools in that domain. Only critical design data and information specified by the designers are exchanged across different domain databases by a global data manager shown in the center of [25,26].…”

Section: The Proposed New Approach: Distributed Relevant Data Exchangmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Multidisciplinary Concurrent Design Environment for Consumer Electronic Product Design

Wang

Wright

Richards

1996

Concurrent Engineering

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Most consumer electronic products are electromechanical systems consisting of mechanical components such as structures, enclosures, and mechanisms combined with electrical components such as printed circuit boards (PCBs) power supplies wires (harness), and switches The design of such multidisciplinary products involves high coordination and cooperation between the two different engineering fields of mechanical and electrical design However, in spite of the advancements of CAD tool development in design automation technology within each field, a gap still exists for good communication between the designers in these two fields during the course of the design This gap makes the design process of such products time-consuming and error prone This paper describes a research effort that facilitates multidisciplinary concurrent design for consumer electronic products The focus is on how to integrate mechanical and electrical CAD tools into a more flexible and extensible concurrent design environment to share and communicate critical design information during the design process A multidisciplinary cuncurrent design environment based on the CAD framework concept is described Approaches for integrating the design data and information in such a multidisciplinary design environment are discussed A prototyping system for the concurrent design of consumer electronic products is also presented with two preliminary design examples

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A Metadata Repository Model to Integrate Heterogeneous Databases of Hardware Dependent Legacy Systems

Tumay

Dincer

Yürekten

et al. 2006

Advances in Information Systems

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Federated database management system: Requirements, issues and solutions

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An approach for building an integrated environment for molecular biology databases

An approach for building an integrated environment for molecular biology databases

A Multidisciplinary Concurrent Design Environment for Consumer Electronic Product Design

A Metadata Repository Model to Integrate Heterogeneous Databases of Hardware Dependent Legacy Systems

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