Foreword: Intelligent integration of information

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 349 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0925-9902
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00122123

✦ Synopsis

This issue of JIIS is dedicated to topics in Intelligent Integration of Information (13). 13 represents a field in Information Systems that parallels closely the objectives of this journal. The focus on Integration defines tasks that increase the value of information when information from multiple sources is accessed, related, and combined. The problem to be addressed in this context is that integration over the ever-expanding number of resources available on-line leads to what customers perceive as information overload. In actuality, the customers experience data overload, making it nearly impossible to extract information sufficiently relevant to lead to decisions and action out of a haystack of data.

We distinguish Integretion of Information from integration of data and databases, since we do not expect to combine the sources, but only selected results derived from them. If the data obtained from the sources are materialized, then the integration of information overlaps with the topic of data w~rehousing. When the integration of information requires