附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index.
Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1. Information Overload -- 2. Information Brokering: Handling the Information Overload -- 3. Book Organization -- 2. METADATA AND ONTOLOGIES -- 1. Perspectives on Metadata Management -- 2. Language and Vocabulary Issues for Metadata Construction -- 3. Summary -- 3. METADATA-BASED ARCHITECTURES -- 1. An (abstract) Metadata-based Architecture -- 2. Properties of Information Brokering Architectures -- 3. Architectural Evolution and Properties -- 4. Summary -- 4. METADATA-BASED BROKERING FOR DIGITAL DATA -- 1. A Multimedia Information Request -- 2. The InfoHarness System -- 3. Issues of Metadata and Architecture in the MIDAS System -- 4. The InfoSleuth Text Agent -- 5. Metadata-based Correlation in the MIDAS system -- 6. Summary: Metadata as Schema for Digital Data -- 5. CAPTURING INFORMATION CONTENT IN STRUCTURED DATA -- 1. Schematic Heterogeneities across Multiple Databases -- 2. Capturing the Information Content of Database Objects -- 3. Summary -- 6. THE INFOSLEUTH SYSTEM -- 1. The InfoSleuth Agent-based Architecture -- 2. Metadata Brokering in InfoSleuth -- 3. InfoSleuth: A Summary -- 7. VOCABULARY BROKERING IN THE OBSERVER SYSTEM -- 1. Architecture of OBSERVER -- 2. Vocabulary Brokering by the Query Processor -- 3. OBSERVER: A Summary -- 8. AN ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE -- 1. Ontologies and Construction of Metadata -- 2. Vocabulary Brokering -- 3. Metadata Brokering -- 4. Summary -- 9. RELATED WORK -- 1. The SIMS Project -- 2. The TSIMMIS Project -- 3. The Information Manifold Project -- 4. The KMed Project -- 5. The Conceptual Indexing/Retrieval Project -- 6. HERMES: A Heterogeneous Reasoning and Mediator System -- 7. InfoScopes: Multimedia Information Systems -- 8. The Context Interchange Network Project -- 9. A Comparison of Brokering Systems -- 10. Summary -- 10. CONCLUSION -- References.
