Mediators, Concepts and Practice

Mediators are intermediary modules in large-scale information systems that link multiple sources of information to applications. They provide a means for integrating the application of encoded knowledge into information systems. Mediated systems compose autonomous data and information services, permitting growth and enable their survival in a semantically diverse and rapidly changing world. Constraints of scope are placed on mediators to assure effective and maintainable composed systems. Modularity in mediated architectures is not only a goal, but also enables the goal to be reached. Mediators focus on semantic matching, while middleware provides the essential syntactic and formatting interfaces.

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