Abstract:Abstract. A multidatabase system is an interconnected collection of autonomous databases each managed by an autonomous database management system (DBMS). When integrating multiple DBMSs, the key is the autonomy of the underlying participants. Much research has been undertaken in the past five years aimed at describing and building an integrated multidatabase system, but to date the term autonomy has only been defined intuitively. This article provides a rigorous definition for autonomy tailored to the multidat… Show more
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