Integrating multiple heterogeneous data sources in to applications is a time-consuming, costly and error-prone engineering task. Relatively mature technologies exist that make integration tractable from an engineering perspective. These technologies however have many limitations, and hence present opportunities for breakthrough research. This paper briefly describes some of these limitations, and enumerates a subset of the general open research problems. It then describes the Data Concierge research project and prototype that is attempting to provide solutions to some of these issues.
Revised: November 10, 2005 |
Published: December 1, 2003
Citation
Gorton I., D.A. Thurman, and J.R. Thomson. 2003.Next Generation Application Integration: Challenges and New Approaches. In 27th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference Proceedings (COMPSAC 2003), 576-581. Los Alamitos:IEEE Computer Soc.PNNL-SA-39531.