Intelligent Brokering of Environmental Information with the BUSTER System
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Thomas Vögele, Ubbo Visser, R.M. Meyer · 2001
Many application areas of information systems share the need to store and process large amounts of diverse data, which is often geographically distributed. This implies that in order to make new data available to the system these data has to be transferred into the system’s specific data format. This is a very time consuming and tedious process. Data acquisition, automatically or semi-automatically, often requires large-scale investment in technical infrastructure and/or manpower. These obstacles are some of the reasons behind the concept of information sharing. Information sharing is attractive because in order to supplement an existing data basis remote information can be accessed by systems. The advantages of successful information sharing is thus obvious for many reasons: Quality improvement of data due to the availability of large and complete data. Quality improvement of data due to the availability of large and complete data. Avoidance of redundant data and conflicts that can arise from redundancy