The popularity of distributed computing environments and the growth of the “Information SuperHighway ” have dramatically increased the number of data bases available for use. Unfortunately, there...
Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel
This paper describes a strategy for the construction of large-scale heterogeneous sys-tems which combines the bene ts ofbothtight-coupling systems (insulating users from the complexity ofsemantic...
Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel
We examine a knowledge representation architecture to support context interchange mediation. For autonomous receivers and sources sharing a common subject domain, the mediator’s reasoning engine...
Cheng Hian Goh, Stuart E. Madnick, Cheng Hian, Goht Stuart, E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel, ...
This paper describes a strategy for the construction of large-scale heterogeneous sys-tems which combines the benefits of both tight-coupling systems (insulating users from the complexity of semantic...
Multi-processor software lockout (2008)
As the uses of computers increase, every facility event-ually becomes faced with the need to increase capacity. The solutions normally used are to replace the equipment with newer and faster models...
VIRTUAL INFORMATION IN DATA-BASE SYSTEMS (2008)
Jeffrey J. Folinus, Stuart E. Madnick, Howard B. Schutzman
This paper examines the concept and implications of virtual information in data base systems. Virtual information is any fact which does not physically exist in the data base, but is nonetheless...
Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel
We examine semantic interoperability problems in the fixed income securities industry and propose a knowledge representation architecture for context interchange mediation to support dynamic...
Sumit Bhansali, Benjamin N. Grosof, Stuart E. Madnick
{bhansali, bgrosof, smadnick} @ mit.edu www.mit.edu/~bhansali, ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof, web.mit.edu/smadnick/www/home.html The COntext INterchange (COIN) approach to information integration [Goh et...
Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel
We examine a knowledge representation architecture to support context interchange mediation. For autonomous receivers and sources sharing a common subject domain, the mediator’s reasoning engine...
Evaluating and Aggregating Data Believability across Quality Sub-Dimensions and Data Lineage (2008)
Prat, Nicolas, Madnick, Stuart E.
Data quality is crucial for operational efficiency and sound decision making. This paper focuses on believability, a major aspect of data quality. The issue of believability is particularly relevant...
Measuring Data Believability: A Provenance Approach (2008)
Prat, Nicolas, Madnick, Stuart E.
Data quality is crucial for operational efficiency and sound decision making. This paper focuses on believability, a major aspect of quality, measured along three dimensions: trustworthiness,...
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E.
As an open standard for electronic communication of business and financial data, XBRL has the potential of improving the efficiency of the business data supply chain. A number of jurisdictions have...
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E.
As an open standard for electronic communication of business and financial data, XBRL has the potential of improving the efficiency of the business data supply chain. A number of jurisdictions have...
Measuring Data Believability: A Provenance Approach (2008)
Prat, Nicolas, Madnick, Stuart E.
Data quality is crucial for operational efficiency and sound decision making. This paper focuses on believability, a major aspect of quality, measured along three dimensions: trustworthiness,...
Evaluating and Aggregating Data Believability across Quality Sub-Dimensions and Data Lineage (2008)
Prat, Nicolas, Madnick, Stuart E.
Data quality is crucial for operational efficiency and sound decision making. This paper focuses on believability, a major aspect of data quality. The issue of believability is particularly relevant...
Enabling Global Price Comparison through Semantic Integration of Web Data (2008)
Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel, Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel
Abstract: “Sell Globally ” and “Shop Globally ” have been seen as a potential benefit of web-enabled electronic business. One important step toward realizing this benefit is to know how...
Evaluating and Aggregating Data Believability across Quality Sub-Dimensions and Data Lineage (2008)
Nicolas Pratt, Stuart E. Madnick, Nicolas Prat
Data quality is crucial for operational efficiency and sound decision making. This paper focuses on believability, a major aspect of data quality. The issue of believability is particularly relevant...
Measuring Data Believability: a Provenance Approach (2008)
Nicolas Prat, Stuart E. Madnick, Nicolas Prat, Stuart E. Madnick, Nicolas Prat
explicit permission, provided that full credit including © notice is given to the source. This paper also can be downloaded without charge from the
Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick, Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick
As an open standard for electronic communication of business and financial data, XBRL has the potential of improving the efficiency of the business data supply chain. A number of jurisdictions have...
Measuring Data Believability: a Provenance Approach (2008)
Nicolas Pratt, Stuart E. Madnick, Nicolas Prat
Data quality is crucial for operational efficiency and sound decision making. This paper focuses on believability, a major aspect of quality, measured along three dimensions: trustworthiness,...
Using System Dynamics to Model and Better Understand State Stability (2007)
Choucri, Nazli, Goldsmith, Daniel, Madnick, Stuart E., Mistree, Dinsha, Morrison, J. Bradley, Siegel, Michael
The world can be complex and dangerous - the loss of state stability of countries is of increasing concern. Although every case is unique, there are important common processes. We have developed a...
Using System Dynamics to Model and Better Understand State Stability (2007)
Choucri, Nazli, Goldsmith, Daniel, Madnick, Stuart E., Mistree, Dinsha, Morrison, J. Bradley, Siegel, Michael
The world can be complex and dangerous - the loss of state stability of countries is of increasing concern. Although every case is unique, there are important common processes. We have developed a...
Cheng Hian Goh, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel
This paper describes a strategy for the construction of large-scale heterogeneous systems which combines the benefits of both tight-coupling systems (insulating users from the complexity of semantic...
A Lightweight Ontology Approach to Scalable Interoperability (2007)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E
There are many different kinds of ontologies used for different purposes in modern computing. Lightweight ontologies are easy to create, but difficult to deploy; formal ontolgies are relatively easy...
A Lightweight Ontology Approach to Scalable Interoperability (2007)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E
There are many different kinds of ontologies used for different purposes in modern computing. Lightweight ontologies are easy to create, but difficult to deploy; formal ontolgies are relatively easy...
To Standardize Enterprise Data or Not? An Economic Analysis of Flexibility versus Control (2006)
Velu, Chander K., Madnick, Stuart E., Van Alstyne, Marshall W.
This paper addresses the tension between benefits of centralized data control against the benefits of decentralized control at the level of the business unit. Centralized data control provides the...
To Standardize Enterprise Data or Not? An Economic Analysis of Flexibility versus Control (2006)
Velu, Chander K., Madnick, Stuart E., Van Alstyne, Marshall W.
This paper addresses the tension between benefits of centralized data control against the benefits of decentralized control at the level of the business unit. Centralized data control provides the...
Nazli Choucri, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel, Nazli Choucri, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel
In the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy it has became clear that the lack of effective information exchange among government agencies hindered the capability of identifying potential threats and...
Addressing the Challenges of Aggregational and Temporal Ontological Heterogeneity (2005)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E.
In this paper, we first identify semantic heterogeneities that, when not resolved, often cause serious data quality problems. We discuss the especially challenging problems of temporal and...
Addressing the Challenges of Aggregational and Temporal Ontological Heterogeneity (2005)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E.
In this paper, we first identify semantic heterogeneities that, when not resolved, often cause serious data quality problems. We discuss the especially challenging problems of temporal and...
Research Initiative to Understand & Model State Stability: Exploiting System Dynamics (2005)
Choucri, Nazli, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
In its Preface, The 9/11 Commission Report states: We learned that the institutions charted with protecting ... national security did not understand how grave this threat can be, and did not adjust...
Context Mediation Demonstration of Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Integration (2005)
Madnick, Stuart E., Moulton, Allen, Siegel, Michael D.
In this report, we demonstrate the applicability and value of the context mediation approach in facilitating the effective and correct use of counter-terrorism intelligence information coming from...
Context Mediation Demonstration of Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Integration (2005)
Madnick, Stuart E., Moulton, Allen, Siegel, Michael D.
In this report, we demonstrate the applicability and value of the context mediation approach in facilitating the effective and correct use of counter-terrorism intelligence information coming from...
Research Initiative to Understand & Model State Stability: Exploiting System Dynamics (2005)
Choucri, Nazli, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
In its Preface, The 9/11 Commission Report states: We learned that the institutions charted with protecting ... national security did not understand how grave this threat can be, and did not adjust...
Design Strategies for File Systems (2005)
The report describes a methodology for the analysis and synthesis of modern general purpose file systems. The two basic concepts developed are (1) establishment of a uniform representation of a...
Xu, Hongjiang, Al-Hakim, Latif, Wang, Richard Y., Pierce, Elizabeth M., Madnick, Stuart E., Fisher, Craig W.
Xu, Hongjiang, Al-Hakim, Latif, Wang, Richard Y., Pierce, Elizabeth M., Madnick, Stuart E., Fisher, Craig W.
Context Mediation Demonstration of (2005)
Stuart E. Madnick, Allen Moulton, Michael D. Siegel, Stuart E. Madnick, Allen Moulton, Michael D. Siegel, ...
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Information Aggregation using the Caméléon # Web Wrapper (2005)
Aykut Firat, Stuart E. Madnick, Nor Adnan Yahaya, Choo Wai Kuan, Stéphane Bressan, Aykut Firat, ...
For more information, please visit our website at
Representation and Reasoning About Changing Semantics in Heterogeneous Data Sources (2005)
Hongwei Zhu, Hongwei Zhu, Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick, ...
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Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E.
Many online services access a large number of autonomous data sources and at the same time need to meet different user requirements. It is essential for these services to achieve semantic...
Tan, Philip Eik Yeow, Tan, Kian Lee, Madnick, Stuart E.
The COntext INterchange (COIN) strategy is an approach to solving the problem of interoperability of semantically heterogeneous data sources through context mediation. COIN has used its own notation...
Jayasena, Sajindra Kolitha Bandara, Bressan, Stéphane, Madnick, Stuart E.
Each player in the financial industry, each bank, stock exchange, government agency, or insurance company operates its own financial information system or systems. By its very nature, financial...
Reasoning about Temporal Context using Ontology and Abductive Constraint Logic Programming (2004)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
The underlying assumptions for interpreting the meaning of data often change over time, which further complicates the problem of semantic heterogeneities among autonomous data sources. As an...
Reasoning about Temporal Context using Ontology and Abductive Constraint Logic Programming (2004)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
The underlying assumptions for interpreting the meaning of data often change over time, which further complicates the problem of semantic heterogeneities among autonomous data sources. As an...
Reasoning about Temporal Context using Ontology and Abductive Constraint Logic Programming (2004)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
The underlying assumptions for interpreting the meaning of data often change over time, which further complicates the problem of semantic heterogeneities among autonomous data sources. As an...
Reasoning about Temporal Context using Ontology and Abductive Constraint Logic Programming (2004)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
The underlying assumptions for interpreting the meaning of data often change over time, which further complicates the problem of semantic heterogeneities among autonomous data sources. As an...
Reasoning about Temporal Context using Ontology and Abductive Constraint Logic Programming (2004)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
The underlying assumptions for interpreting the meaning of data often change over time, which further complicates the problem of semantic heterogeneities among autonomous data sources. As an...
Reasoning about Temporal Context using Ontology and Abductive Constraint Logic Programming (2004)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
The underlying assumptions for interpreting the meaning of data often change over time, which further complicates the problem of semantic heterogeneities among autonomous data sources. As an...
Reasoning about Temporal Context using Ontology and Abductive Constraint Logic Programming (2004)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
The underlying assumptions for interpreting the meaning of data often change over time, which further complicates the problem of semantic heterogeneities among autonomous data sources. As an...
Reasoning about Temporal Context using Ontology and Abductive Constraint Logic Programming (2004)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
The underlying assumptions for interpreting the meaning of data often change over time, which further complicates the problem of semantic heterogeneities among autonomous data sources. As an...
Jayasena, Sajindra Kolitha Bandara, Bressan, Stéphane, Madnick, Stuart E.
Each player in the financial industry, each bank, stock exchange, government agency, or insurance company operates its own financial information system or systems. By its very nature, financial...
Tan, Philip Eik Yeow, Tan, Kian Lee, Madnick, Stuart E.
The COntext INterchange (COIN) strategy is an approach to solving the problem of interoperability of semantically heterogeneous data sources through context mediation. COIN has used its own notation...
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E.
Many online services access a large number of autonomous data sources and at the same time need to meet different user requirements. It is essential for these services to achieve semantic...
Contextual Alignment of Ontologies for Semantic Interoperability (2004)
Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick, Aykut Firat, Aykut Firat, Stuart Madnick, Benjamin Grosof, ...
without explicit permission, provided that full credit including © notice is given to the source. This paper also can be downloaded without charge from the
Effective Data Integration in the Presence of Temporal Semantic Conflicts (2004)
Hongwei Zhu, Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel, Michael D. Siegel
For more information, please visit our website at
Reasoning about Temporal Context using Ontology and Abductive Constraint Logic Programming (2004)
Hongwei Zhu, Hongwei Zhu, Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick, ...
For more information, please visit our website at
Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick, Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick
Many online services access a large number of autonomous data sources and at the same time need to meet different user requirements. It is essential for these services to achieve semantic...
Reasoning about Temporal Context using Ontology and Abductive Constraint Logic Programming (2004)
Hongwei Zhu, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel
Abstract—The underlying assumptions for interpreting the meaning of data often change over time, which further complicates the problem of semantic heterogeneities among autonomous data sources. As...
Improving Data Quality Through Effective Use of Data Semantics (2003)
Data quality issues have taken on increasing importance in recent years. In our research, we have discovered that many “data quality” problems are actually “data misinterpretation” problems...
Improving Data Quality Through Effective Use of Data Semantics (2003)
Data quality issues have taken on increasing importance in recent years. In our research, we have discovered that many “data quality” problems are actually “data misinterpretation” problems...
Asynchronous Backup and Initialization of a Database Server for Replicated Database Systems (2003)
Bhalla, Subhash, Madnick, Stuart E.
A possibility of a temporary disconnection of database service exists in many computing environments. It is a common need to permit a participating site to lag behind and re-initialize to full...
Asynchronous Backup and Initialization of a Database Server for Replicated Database Systems (2003)
Bhalla, Subhash, Madnick, Stuart E.
A possibility of a temporary disconnection of database service exists in many computing environments. It is a common need to permit a participating site to lag behind and re-initialize to full...
Global Comparison Aggregation Services (2003)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
Web aggregation has been available regionally for several years, but this service has not been offered globally. As an example, using multiple regional comparison aggregators, we analyze the global...
Financial Information Integration In the Presence of Equational Ontological Conflicts (2003)
Firat, Aykut, Madnick, Stuart E., Grosof, Benjamin
While there are efforts to establish a single international accounting standard, there are strong current and future needs to handle heterogeneous accounting methods and systems. We advocate a...
The Interplay of Web Aggregation and Regulation (2003)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
The development of web technology has led to the emergence of web aggregation, a service that collects existing web data and turns them into more useful information. We review the development of both...
Firat, Aykut, Madnick, Stuart E., Grosof, Benjamin
The shift towards global networking brings with it many opportunities and challenges. In this paper, we discuss key technologies in achieving global semantic interoperability among heterogeneous...
Firat, Aykut, Madnick, Stuart E., Grosof, Benjamin
The shift towards global networking brings with it many opportunities and challenges. In this paper, we discuss key technologies in achieving global semantic interoperability among heterogeneous...
The Interplay of Web Aggregation and Regulation (2003)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
The development of web technology has led to the emergence of web aggregation, a service that collects existing web data and turns them into more useful information. We review the development of both...
Financial Information Integration In the Presence of Equational Ontological Conflicts (2003)
Firat, Aykut, Madnick, Stuart E., Grosof, Benjamin
While there are efforts to establish a single international accounting standard, there are strong current and future needs to handle heterogeneous accounting methods and systems. We advocate a...
Global Comparison Aggregation Services (2003)
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
Web aggregation has been available regionally for several years, but this service has not been offered globally. As an example, using multiple regional comparison aggregators, we analyze the global...
Information Integration Using Contextual Knowledge and Ontology Merging (2003)
Stuart E. Madnick, Birger Wernerfelt, Aykut Firat, Aykut Firat
With the advances in telecommunications, and the introduction of the Internet, information systems achieved physical connectivity, but have yet to establish logical connectivity. Lack of logical...
Punj,Dorian, Madnick,Stuart E., DeTreville,John D.
This document is the final report of a study of current Navy operating system milieu. It includes information about Naval tactical computer applications, and in particular, information on the major...
Facilities Orientation Report, Volume II. Trip Reports, (2002)
Punj,Dorian, Madnick,Stuart E., DeTreville,John D.
This document consists of the trip reports that resulted from visits to various Naval installations and facilities in an attempt to assess current and future Naval computer applications.
An Exercise in Software Architectural Design: From Requirements to Design Problem Structure. (2002)
Andreu,Rafael C., Madnick,Stuart E.
Two of the main activities required for the application of the methodology explored in this project, namely, the assessment of design interdependencies among requirements and the interpretation of...
Andreu,Rafael C., Madnick,Stuart E.
The design methodology investigated in this project is applied to the requirements set resulting from the addition of new requirements to the set used previously. This exercise permits testing the...
The IMS Data Storage Hierarchy - dsh-1. (2002)
Lam,Chat-Yu, Madnick,Stuart E.
To achieve high performance, large capacity, and high availability, the IMS data base computer takes the approach of implementing the logical information management functions by means of a pipeline...
The IMS Data Storage Hierarchy - DSH-11. (2002)
Lam,Chat-Yu, Madnick,Stuart E.
The need for efficient storage and processing of very large data bases coupled with advances in Large Scale Integration (LSI) technology have motivated various proposals to develop specialized...
The Intelligent Memory System Architecture - Research Directions. (2002)
Lam,Chat-Yu, Madnick,Stuart E.
Information storage, retrieval, communication, and processing have become increasingly important for modern command and control systems. Conventional computers are primarily designed for...
Use of Virtual Machines in the Development of Decision Support Systems. (2002)
Donovan,John J., Madnick,Stuart E., Lam,Chat-Yu, Abdel-Hamid,Tarek K.
This effort is composed of several studies that have been conducted to investigate the development of a software programming environment for decision support systems using virtual machine technology...
Simulation Studies of the DSH-11 Data Storage Hierarchy System. (2002)
Lam,Chat-Yu, Madnick,Stuart E.
This report discusses the results of a series of simulation studies of the DSH-11 Data Storage Hierarchy System. DSH-11 is a storage subsystem specially designed for the Intelligent Memory System...
A Study of the Multicache-Consistency Problem in Multi-Processor Computer Systems (2002)
Abdel-Hamid, Tarek K., Madnick, Stuart E.
This paper is a report on an ongoing research project at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management to study the multicache-consistency problem in multi- processor computer systems. The nature of the...
Time Slice Manipulation in Information Hierarchy. (2002)
Hsu,Meichun, Madnick,Stuart E.
This paper presents theoretical results on a generalized form of partial order, called hierarchical partial order, for enforcing serializability that takes advantage of transaction analysis in...
A framework for corporate householding (2002)
Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart Madnick, Stuart Madnick, Richard Wang, Richard Wang, Richard Wang, ...
This paper also can be downloaded without charge from the
A FRAMEWORK FOR CORPORATE HOUSEHOLDING (Research-in-Progress) (2002)
Stuart E. Madnick, Richard Wang, Wei Zhang, Stuart Madnick, Richard Wang, Wei Zhang
ABSTRACT: Previous research on corporate household and corporate householding has presented examples, literature review, and working definitions. In this paper, we first improve our understanding of...
Information Aggregation - a Value-Added E-Service (2001)
Michael D. Siegel, Stuart E. Madnick, Hongwei Zhu, Michael D. Siegel, Stuart E. Madnick
A research and education initiative at the MIT
Allen Moulton, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel
For more information, please visit our website at
Weiguo Fan, Hongjun Lu, Stuart E. Madnick, David Cheung, Weiguo Fan, Hongjun Lu, ...
may be quoted without explicit permission, provided that full credit including © notice is given to the source. This paper also can be downloaded without charge from the
The Misguided Silver Bullet: What XML will and will NOT do to help Information Integration (2001)
Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick
This paper is available through the Center for eBusiness@MIT web site at the following URL:
Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel
We examine a knowledge representation architecture to support context interchange mediation. For autonomous receivers and sources sharing a common subject domain, the mediator’s reasoning engine...
Allen Moulton, Allen Moulton, Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel, Michael D. Siegel
For more information, please visit our website at
Moulton, Allen., Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
Title from cover.
Moulton, Allen., Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
Title from cover.
The Camélón Web Wrapper Engine (2000)
Firat, Aykut., Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
Title from cover. "August 2000."
The Camélón Web Wrapper Engine (2000)
Firat, Aykut., Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
Title from cover. "August 2000."
Metadata Jones and the Tower of Babel: The Challenge of Large-Scale Semantic Heterogeneity (1999)
The popularity and growth of the “Information SuperHighway ” (e.g., the Web) have dramatically increased the number of information sources available for use and the opportunity for important new...
Incorporating generalized quantifiers into (1998)
Stuart E. Madnick, S. Y Tu, S. Madnick
description logic for representing data source contents
Incorporating generalized quantifiers into (1998)
Stuart E. Madnick, S. Y Tu, S. Madnick
description logic for representing data source contents
Paper No: 109 DIRECT: Discovering and Reconciling Conflicts for Data Integration (1998)
Hongjun Lu, Weiguo Fan, Cheng Hian Goh, Stuart E. Madnick, David W. Cheung, Hongjun Lu, ...
The successful integration of data from autonomous and heterogeneous systems calls for the prior identifi-cation and resolution of semantic conflicts that may be present. Traditionally, this is...
Incorporating Generalized Quantifiers into Description Logic for Representing Data Source (1997)
Steven Y. Tu, Stuart E. Madnick, Steven Y. Tu, Stuart E. Madnick
For more information, please visit our website at
Discovering and Reconciling Semantic Conflicts: A Data Mining Perspective (1997)
Hongjun Lu, Weiguo Fan, Cheng Hian Goh, Stuart E. Madnick, David W. Cheung
Current approaches to semantic interoperability require human intervention in detecting potential con#icts and in defining how those con#icts maybe resolved. This is a major impedance to achieving...
Overview of a Prolog Implementation of the COntext INterchange Mediator (1997)
Stéphane Bressan, Kofi Fynn Cheng, Hian Goh, Stuart E. Madnick, Tito Pena, Michael D. Siegel
The Context Interchange strategy [5; 12] presents a novel solution to mediated data access in which semantic conflicts among heterogeneous systems are automatically detected and reconciled by a...
Discovering and Reconciling Semantic Conflicts: A Data Mining Perspective (1997)
Hongjun Lu, Weiguo Fan, Cheng Hian Goh, Stuart E. Madnick, David W. Cheung
Current approaches to semantic interoperability require human intervention in detecting potential conflicts and in defining how those conflicts may be resolved. This is a major impedance to achieving...
Stephane Bressan, Kofi Fynn, Cheng Hian Goh, Stuart E. Madnick, Tito Pena, Michael D. Siegel, ...
The Context Interchange strategy [5; 12] presents a novel solution to mediated data access in which semantic conflicts among heterogeneous systems are automatically detected and reconciled by a...
Raphael Yahalom, Stuart E. Madnick, Raphael Yahalom, Stuart E. Madnick
Abstract: An application-oriented analysis of data semantic challenges is presented. The analysis serves as a basis for developing a framework for effectively managing such challenges. The paper...
Discovering and Reconciling Semantic Conflicts: A Data Mining Perspective (1997)
Hongjun Lu, Hongjun Lu, Weiguo Fan, Weiguo Fan, Cheng Hian Goh, Cheng Hian Goh, ...
Current approaches to semantic interoperability require human intervention in detect-ing potential conflicts and in defining how those conflicts may be resolved. This is a major impedance to...
Heterogeneous Information Systems (1996)
Cheng Hian Goh, Stuart E. Madnick, Gordon M. Kaufman, Cheng Hian Goh
at the
Heterogeneous Information Systems (1996)
Cheng Hian Goh, Stuart E. Madnick, Gordon M. Kaufman, Cheng Hian Goh
at the
"February 1996."
M.: Ontologies, Contexts, and Mediation: Representing and Reasoning about Semantic (1995)
Cheng Hian Goh, Stuart E. Madnick, Cheng Hian, Goht Stuart, E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel, ...
The Context Interchange strategy has been proposed as an approach for achieving in-teroperability among heterogeneous and autonomous data sources and receivers [25]. We have suggested [10] that this...
Good Answers from Bad Data: a Data Management Strategy (1995)
Henry B. Kon, Henry B. Kon, Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D. Siegel, Michael D. Siegel
Data error is an obstacle to effective application, integration, and sharing of data. Error reduction, although desirable, is not always necessary or feasible. Error measurement is a natural...
Stuart Madnick E, Information Systems, Computer Science, Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick
at the intersection of CS and IS, is uniquely positioned to address and solve important problems that are outside of the traditional domains of either CS or IS. An important development is the...
Data Quality Requirements Analysis and Modeling (1993)
Richard Y. Wang, Richard Y. Wang, Henry B. Kon, Henry B. Kon, Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick
Gretchen Fisher for helping prepare this manuscript.
A metadata approach to resolving semantic conflicts (1991)
Siegel, Michael D., Madnick, Stuart E.
"February 1991."
The Source Tagging Perspective (1990)
Y. Richard Wang, Stuart E. Madnick, Attn Prof, Richard Wang, Y. Richard Wang, Stuart E. Madnick
This paper studies heterogeneous database systems from the multiple (poly) source (gen) perspective. It aims at addressing issues such as "where is the data from " and...
A polygen model for Heterogeneous Database Systems: The Source Tagging Perspective (1990)
Y. Richard Wang, Stuart E. Madnick
This paper studies heterogeneous database systems from the multiple (poly) source @rrt) perspective. It aims at addressing issues such as “where is the data from ” and “which intermediate data...
The elusive silver lining : how we fail to learn from failure in software development (1990)
Abdel-Hamid, Tarek K., Madnick, Stuart E.
"May 31, 1990."
Where does the data come from : managing data integration with source tagging capabilities (1990)
Wang, Y. Richard, Madnick, Stuart E.
"August 1990."
A polygen data model for data source tagging in composite information systems (1989)
Attn Prof, Richard Wang, Y. Richard Wang, Y. Richard Wang, Stuart E. Madnick, Stuart E. Madnick
and Judith Mitiguy for helping prepare this manuscript and to Robert Goldberg and Allen
Stuart E. Madnick, Allen Moulton
This paper summarizes some recent theoretical results in formally defining and measuring database locality and demonstrates the application of
CISL: Composing Answers from Disparate Information systems (1989)
Meryl Alford, Alex Champlin, Francis Gan, Howard Gerber, David Godes, Robert Goldberg, ...
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Global Query Processing in Composite Information Systems (1989)
Y. Richard Wang, Stuart E. Madnick, Y. Richard Wang, Stuart E. Madnick
ABSTRACT Many important applications in the 1990's will require access to and integration of multiple disparate databases both within and across organizational boundaries because of the pushpull...
Osborn, Charles S., Madnick, Stuart E., Wang, Y. Richard
"December 1989."
Evolution Towards Strategic Applications of Databases Through Composite Information Systems (1988)
Stuart E. Madnick, Y. Richard Wang, S. E. Madnick, Y. R. Wang, Stuart E. Madnick
*Currently on leave to MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor ABSTRACT Many important strategic applications involve inter-corporate linkage or intra-corporate integration of information. This...
Modeling the dynamics of software project management (1988)
Abdel-Hamid, Tarek K., Madnick, Stuart E.
Also issued as CISR WP no. 163, and: Working paper (Sloan School of Management) WP 1935-87.
Frank, William F., Madnick, Stuart E., Wang, Y. Richard
"Revised September 1987."
A framework of composite information systems for strategic advantage (1987)
Madnick, Stuart E., Wang, Y. Richard
"To appear in Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 1988."
Integrating disparate databases for composite-answers (1987)
Madnick, Stuart E., Wang, Y. Richard
"To appear in Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 1988."
INFOPLEX, research in a high-performance database computer (1986)
Madnick, Stuart E., Hsu, Meichun
"Published in IEEE database engineering, vol.9, no. 1, March 1986."
Impact of schedule estimation on software project behavior (1985)
Abdel-Hamid, Tarek K., Madnick, Stuart E.
"June 1985, revised November 1985."
Sistemas operativos / S.E. Madnick, J.J. Donovan ; tr. por Sergio Fernández E. (1981)
Madnick, Stuart E., Donovan, John J.
Traducción de: Operating Systems
Computer security / David K. Hsiao, Douglas S. Kerr, Stuart E. Madnick (1979)
Hsiao, David K, Kerr, Douglas S, Madnick, Stuart E
Incluye bibliografía e índice
Properties of storage hierarchy systems with multiple page sizes and redundant data (1979)
Lam, Chat-Yu., Madnick, Stuart E.
"April 10, 1979."
Composite information systems : a new concept in information systems (1978)
Lam, Chat-Yu., Madnick, Stuart E.
"This report is based on Technical Report #3 prepared for the Rome Air Force Development Center under contract #F30602-77-C-0205."
Institutional and ad hoc DSS and their effective use (1977)
The term decision support system (DSS) applies to the subset of management information systems that truly sup-port decision-making processes. This term excludes struc-tured decision systems that...
TO ENERGY POLICY AND DECISION MAKING: THE USER'S VIEW (1975)
John J. Donovan, Louis M. Gutentag, Stuart E. Madnick, Grant N. Smith
This paper presents an approach to the development and use of management information systems that is particularly applicable to systems with the following characteristics:- several classes of users,...
Using a Microprocessor Complex (1975)
Stuart E. Madnick, Professor Stuart, E. Madnick, Professor Stuart, E. Madnick
2/25/75 By using the concept of hierarchical decomposition, both of the logical functions and physical storage management, it is possible to develop a highly parallel information management system...
A survey of Navy tactical computer applications and executives : report of a study by (1975)
Punj, Dorian., Madnick, Stuart E., DeTreville, John Daniel
Sloan working paper series numbering from publisher's list.
Madnick, Stuart E., Donovan, John J.
Presenta técnicas avanzadas de software, especialmente de sistemas operativos. Incluye material mediante el cual el lector podrá diseñar, usar y analizar no sólo sistemas operativos existentes,...
Operating systems / S.E. Madnick, J.J. Donovan. (1974)
Madnick, Stuart E., Donovan, John J.
Presenta técnicas avanzadas de software, especialmente de sistemas operativos. Incluye material mediante el cual el lector podrá diseñar, usar y analizar no sólo sistemas operativos existentes,...
Operating systems / Stuart E. Madnick, John J. Donovan (1974)
Madnick, Stuart E, Donovan, John J
Incluye índice
Virtual information in data-base systems, (1974)
Folinus, Jeffrey J., Madnick, Stuart E., Schutzman, Howard B.
RECENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES IN THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY AND THEIR FUTURE IMPACT by (1973)
The past two decades have brought tremendous advances in computer systems. In the next 5-10 years we can expect advances of even greater scope. These changes can be sub-divided into three categories:...
Design strategies for file systems. (1969)
Supervised by David N. Ness [and] John J. Donovan.
String processing techniques (1967)
The internal organization of string processing systems is discussed. Six techniques for data structures are presented and evaluated on the basis of: (1) creation of strings; (2) examina-tion of...
Research Initiative to Understand & Model State Stability: Exploiting System Dynamics
Choucri, Nazli, Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
In its Preface, The 9/11 Commission Report states: We learned that the institutions charted with protecting ... national security did not understand how grave this threat can be, and did not adjust...
Sistemas operativos / Stuart E. Madnick y John J. Donovan
Madnick, Stuart E, Donovan, John J
Traducción de: Operating systems
To Standardize Enterprise Data or Not? An Economic Analysis of Flexibility versus Control
Velu, Chander K., Madnick, Stuart E., Van Alstyne, Marshall W.
This paper addresses the tension between benefits of centralized data control against the benefits of decentralized control at the level of the business unit. Centralized data control provides the...
Lessons learned from modeling the dynamics of software development
Abdel-Hamid, Tarek K, Madnick, Stuart E
"August 1988." "This paper is a companion piece to CISR WP No. 163, Modeling the dynamics of software project management."
Asynchronous Backup and Initialization of a Database Server for Replicated Database Systems
Bhalla, Subhash, Madnick, Stuart E.
A possibility of a temporary disconnection of database service exists in many computing environments. It is a common need to permit a participating site to lag behind and re-initialize to full...
Recent technical advances in the computer industry and their future inmpact,
HD28 .M414 no.645-, 73, Computer industry,
An approach to information system isolation and security in a shared facility,
Madnick, Stuart E., Donovan, John J.
HD28 .M414 no.648-, 73, Information storage and retrieval systems Security measures,
Madnick, Stuart E., Donovan, John J.
HD28 .M414 no.722-, 74,
HD28 .M414 no.770-, 75,
Donovan, John J., Gutentag, Louis Michael., Madnick, Stuart E., Smith, Grant Norman.
HD28 .M414 no.776-, 75,
Trends in computers and computing : the information utility
"This paper is based on an article to be published in the March 18, 1977 issue of S̲c̲i̲e̲ṉc̲e̲."
A systematic approach to the design of complex systems : application to DBMS design and evaluation
Andreu, Rafael C. (Rafael Civit)., Madnick, Stuart E.
HD28 .M414 no.920-, 77,
Key concerns of executives making IS decisions
Madnick, Stuart E., Wang, Y. Richard
HD28 .M414 no.1861-, 87,
Madnick, Stuart E., Wang, Y. Richard
HD28 .M414 no.1862-, 87,
A temporal and spatial locality theory for characterizing very large data bases
Madnick, Stuart E., Moulton, Allen.
HD28 .M414 no.1864-, 87,
Perspectives on the effective use, planning, and impact of information technology
HD28 .M414 no. 1868-, 87,
Facilitating connectivity in composite information systems
Wang, Y. Richard (Yng-Yuh Richard), Madnick, Stuart E.
HD28 .M414 no.1975-, 88,
Inter-database instance identification in composite information systems
Wang, Y. Richard (Yng-Yuh Richard), Madnick, Stuart E., Horton, David C.
HD28 .M414 no.2029-, 88,
Logical connectivity : applications, requirements, and an architecture
Madnick, Stuart E., Wang, Y. Richard
HD28 .M414 no.2061-, 88,
A global query processing in composite information systems
Wang, Y. Richard (Yng-Yuh Richard), Madnick, Stuart E.
HD28 .M414 no.3015-, 89,
Gupta, Amar., Madnick, Stuart E., Wingfield, Teresa., Poulsen, Christopher.
HD28 .M414 no.3084-, 89,
CISL : composing answers from disparate information systems
Includes bibliographical references (p. 7-8).
Schema integration using metadata
Siegel, Michael D., Madnick, Stuart E.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 10-11).
A Polygen Data Model for data source tagging in Composite Information Systems
Wang, Y. Richard (Yng-Yuh Richard), Madnick, Stuart E.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-18).
Identification and reconciliation of semantic conflicts using metadata
Siegel, Michael D., Madnick, Stuart E.
"November 1989. -- Rev. version, June 1990."
A polygen model for heterogeneous database systems : the source tagging perspective
Wang, Y. Richard (Yng-Yuh Richard), Madnick, Stuart E.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 26-29).
The Composite Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) project at MIT
Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D., Wang, Y. Richard
"Pre-print from IEEE Data Engineering, June 1990"
Composite information systems : resolving semantic heterogeneities
Siegel, Michael D., Madnick, Stuart E., Gupta, Amar.
HD28 .M414 no.3265-, 91,
Context interchange : sharing the meaning of data
Siegel, Michael D., Madnick, Stuart E.
Includes bibliographical references (leaf [3]).
Ownership principles for distributed database design
Van Alstyne, Marshall W. (Marshall Ware), Brynjolfsson, Erik., Madnick, Stuart E.
HD28 .M414 no.3518-, 93,
Integration technology : the reinvention of the linkage between information system
"February 1993." "Revised, replacing CISL WP #92-09."
Why not one big database? : principles for data ownership
Van Alstyne, Marshall W. (Marshall Ware), Brynjolfsson, Erik., Madnick, Stuart E.
"This paper supercedes an earlier version, WP#2518-93 published in December 1992 under the title "Ownership principles for distributed database design."
Data quality requirements analysis and modeling
Wang, Y. Richard (Yng-Yuh Richard), Kon, Henry B., Madnick, Stuart E.
Reprint. "1063-6382/93 $03.00 1993 IEEE."--P. 670. "April 1993."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 16-17).
Evolution to Very MANY Large Data Bases : dealing with large-scale semantic heterogeneity
HD28 .M414 no.3847-95,
Goh, Cheng Hian., Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
HD28 .M414 no.3848-95,
Good answers from bad data : a data management strategy
Kon, Henry B., Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
HD28 .M414 no.3868-95,
Goh, Cheng Hian., Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
HD28 .M414 no.3900-96,
Towards a management framework for data semantic conflicts : a financial applications perspective
Yahalom, Raphael., Madnick, Stuart E.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-25).
Incorporating generalized quantifiers into description logic for representing data source contents
Tu, Yi-Cheng (Yi-Cheng Steven), Madnick, Stuart E.
HD28 .M414 no.3998-98,
The Camélón Web Wrapper Engine
Firat, Aykut., Madnick, Stuart E., Siegel, Michael D.
HD28 .M414 no.4128-00,
Context Mediation Demonstration of Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Integration
Madnick, Stuart E., Moulton, Allen, Siegel, Michael D.
In this report, we demonstrate the applicability and value of the context mediation approach in facilitating the effective and correct use of counter-terrorism intelligence information coming from...
A Lightweight Ontology Approach to Scalable Interoperability
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E
There are many different kinds of ontologies used for different purposes in modern computing. Lightweight ontologies are easy to create, but difficult to deploy; formal ontolgies are relatively easy...
Using System Dynamics to Model and Better Understand State Stability
Choucri, Nazli, Goldsmith, Daniel, Madnick, Stuart E., Mistree, Dinsha, Morrison, J. Bradley, Siegel, Michael
The world can be complex and dangerous - the loss of state stability of countries is of increasing concern. Although every case is unique, there are important common processes. We have developed a...
Evaluating and Aggregating Data Believability across Quality Sub-Dimensions and Data Lineage
Prat, Nicolas, Madnick, Stuart E.
Data quality is crucial for operational efficiency and sound decision making. This paper focuses on believability, a major aspect of data quality. The issue of believability is particularly relevant...
Measuring Data Believability: A Provenance Approach
Prat, Nicolas, Madnick, Stuart E.
Data quality is crucial for operational efficiency and sound decision making. This paper focuses on believability, a major aspect of quality, measured along three dimensions: trustworthiness,...
Zhu, Hongwei, Madnick, Stuart E.
As an open standard for electronic communication of business and financial data, XBRL has the potential of improving the efficiency of the business data supply chain. A number of jurisdictions have...