AutoMed
Automatic Generation of Mediator Tools for Heterogeneous Database
Integration
May 2001 to October 2003
The original AutoMed project was a joint research project between
Birkbeck and Imperial Colleges, funded by the EPSRC under grant
GR/N38107/01. The original objectives of the project were:
to investigate how our hitherto theoretical framework for schema
transformation and integration based on a low-level graph-based
data model can be practically applied and scaled up to real-world
database integration problems;
to investigate how much of a mediator's global query processing
functionality can be automatically generated given the
availability of two-way transformation pathways between source and
integrated schemas; and
to investigate how heuristic and evolutionary computing techniques
can be applied to schema improvement and global query optimisation
for heterogeneous databases.
Despite the project funding having finished, work on AutoMed continues
as part of various related research projects listed below. Thus the title
AutoMed has come to refer to framework and software developed by the
original EPSRC project, and developed by ongoing research work.
AutoMed Projects
LSDI