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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/LevySSZ94,
author = {Alon Y. Levy and
Abraham Silberschatz and
Divesh Srivastava and
Maria Zemankova},
editor = {Jorge B. Bocca and
Matthias Jarke and
Carlo Zaniolo},
title = {Challenges for Global Information Systems},
booktitle = {VLDB'94, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Very
Large Data Bases, September 12-15, 1994, Santiago de Chile, Chile},
publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
year = {1994},
isbn = {1-55860-153-8},
pages = {755},
ee = {db/conf/vldb/vldb94-755.html},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/vldb/94},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
Currently, the Internet provides access to a very large number and wide variety of information sources (e.g., textual databases, sites containing technical reports, directory listings), and systems to access these sources (e.g., World Wide Web, Gopher, WAIS). The challenge is to provide easy, efficient, robust and secure access to this information and other kinds (e.g., relational and object oriented databases).
The aim of this panel is to explore whether there are any new technical problems, relevant to the Database field, that need to be solved in order to realize such global information systems. In particular, we debate whether existing techniques from database systems (e.g., multidatabases and distributed databases) can be applied or straightforwardly extended to global information systems. Furthermore, we attempt to establish realistic goals for database technologies in global information systems.
Copyright © 1994 by the VLDB Endowment. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the VLDB copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by the permission of the Very Large Data Base Endowment. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and/or special permission from the Endowment.
