Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems

From the Publisher: Interconnecting Heterogeneous Information Systems covers the underlying principles and infrastructures needed to realize truly global information systems. The book discusses technologies related to Middleware, the Web, Workflows, Transactions and Data Warehousing. It also overviews architectures with a discussion of critical issues. The book also gives an overview of systems that can be viewed as learning platforms. While these systems do not translate to successful commercial realities, they push the envelope in terms of research. Successful commercial systems have benefited from the experiments conducted in these prototypes. The book includes two case studies based on the authors' own work.