Florian Magin Livres

The book addresses the challenge of integrating diverse data sources to create a cohesive information resource in response to the growing demand for structured information access. It outlines advanced information retrieval methods and introduces a workflow-based approach for data integration. Combining theoretical insights with practical applications, the text emphasizes a pattern-based methodology for retrieving crucial data, making it especially relevant for knowledge management and other fields reliant on information from multiple sources.

With the steadily increasing availability of information on the internet and in corporate databases, the demand for structured approaches to identifying and making use of relevant information is growing rapidly. This book provides an introduction on how heterogeneous data sources can be integrated to form a single source of information for a given information need. State of the art information retrieval methods are described and a workflow-based approach to data integration is introduced in this book. Besides theoretical foundations, the book provides details on the pracatical application of pattern-based workflows to retrieve the data which is required in a particular situation. The pattern-based approach for information retrieval can be used for applications in knowledge management and other areas where relevant information is stored in various data sources.