I3/POB Information Integration Language Home Page

This rather minimal home page has been set up for the ARPA I3 and POB communities in order to foster discussion and maybe some agreement on a "core" language for information integration. If you would like to post a contribution to the discussion, please send it to me with a one-sentence description of your contribution.

Also, if you would like to include links to relevant work, send the me the URL, again with a one-sentence description.

Notification of changes to this page will occasionally be sent to the mailing list

Peter Buneman (peter@cis.upenn.edu)

The language discussion

Jeff Ullman argues for a minimal core language.

Rick Hull indentifies various functionalities that a core language should support (e.g., data transfer, knowledge transfer, behavior transfer, ...)

Sankar comments on strawman, KQML, KIF, and makes a sales pitch to use SIMPLE.

Peter Buneman argues for an alternative syntax to capture a wider variety of data sources.

Sankar emphasizes the need to address three issues in the information interchange language - information, interchange, and language.

Raghu Ramakrishnan puts forward the following idea: integration language = glue language + data source description language.

A report in the language session at the I3/POB meeting in San Diego, Jan '96

Related links

The I3 Reference Architecture (Version 2.0)

Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)

KQML -- Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language, a high-level agent-communication language.

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