Editorial Review | This is the definitive book on data integration technology, written by experts who invented much of the technology they write about. It's comprehensive, with lots of technical detail very clearly explained. It's a must-read for anyone involved in the development of data integration solutions. -Philip A. Bernstein, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Corporation Despite having been with us for decades, data integration remains a challenging, multi-faceted problem. This book does an excellent job of bringing together and explaining its many facets along with the technical solutions that have been developed to date. The authors are three of the field's leading contributors, with a mix of both academic and industrial experience, and their presentation includes examples and manages to make even the more theoretical material accessible to readers. All aspects of modern data integration are covered, including different styles of integration, data and schema matching, query processing and wrappers, as well as challenges posed by the Web and the wide variety of data types and formats that must be integrated today. This book should be a great resource for graduate courses on data integration. -Michael Carey, Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine |
About the Author | AnHai Doan, Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Consulting work with Microsoft AdCenter Lab and Yahoo Research Lab. Head of the Structured Data Group, Google Research, Mountain View, California. He joined Google in 2005 with the acquisition of his company, Transformic. Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a Faculty Member of the Penn Center for Bioinformatics. He received his PhD from the University of Washington. His research interests include data integration, data sharing among autonomous and heterogeneous systems, heterogeneous sensor networks, and information provenance and authoritativeness. |