Workshop on Multidatabases and Semantic Interoperability

讲习班的主要目的是解决需要解决的技术问题，使用户和组织能够围绕互操作的数据和知识库建立应用程序。这次研讨会在讨论信息获取和共享技术的同时，也将促进工业和科学之间的合作。拟议的讲习班将进一步加深对工业界在利用分布式访问数据库的成果方面所面临的问题的了解。对于一些工业问题，可能有概念性的解决方案。对于其他类型的问题，这种互动将为研究人员提供指导，以确定和抽象必须解决的研究问题。研究人员之间的互动将有助于确定有希望的方法以及可能的死胡同。基础研究人员和应用研究人员在解决应用问题方面的协作和合作才能建立在坚实的基础研究基础上。研讨会在解决研究人员在开发多个数据库时所面临的技术问题方面的努力与NSF最近的报告(走向国家合作实验室，NSF 1989)中描述的技术问题密切相关。显然，该报告中列出的智能代理、可互操作的数据描述、信息融合和智能数据收集等问题是多数据库应用程序的设计者应该解决的问题，以使应用程序在地理上分布在不同数据源的信息进行操作。

The main objectiveof the workshop is to address technical problems that are to be solved to allow users and organizations to build applications around interoperating data and knowledge bases. This workshop, while dealing with the technology of information access and sharing will also forge a collaboration between industry and science. The proposed workshop will advance futher understanding of the issues faced by industry in utilizing the results of distributed access to databases. For some industrial problems conceptual solutions may be available. For other types of problems the interaction will provide guidance for researchers in identifying and abstracting research issues that must be addressed. Interaction among researchers will help in identifying promising approaches as well as likely deadends. The collaboration and cooperation between basic and application researchers in solving applications problem can then be based on a solid basic research foundation. The workshop's effort in resolving technical problems facing researchers in developing multidatabases is closely related to technical problems described in the recent NSF report (Toward National Collaboratory, NSF 1989). Clearly that problems of Intelligent Agents, Interoperable Data Description, Information Fusion, and Smart Data Gathering listed in that report are very same problems that a designer of multidatabase application should solve to make an application operate with information geographically distributed among various data sources.