ARIADNE: A System for Constructing Mediators for
Internet Sources
Jose-Luis Ambite (University of Southern California )
Naveen Ashish (University of Southern California )
Greg Barish (University of Southern California )
Craig A. Knoblock (University of Southern California )
Steven Minton (University of Southern California )
Pragnesh J. Modi (University of Southern California )
Ion Muslea (University of Southern California )
Andrew Philpot (University of Southern California )
Sheila Tejada (University of Southern California )
The Web is based on a browsing paradigm that makes it difficult to
retrieve and integrate data from multiple sites. Today, the only way
to achieve this integration is by building specialized applications,
which are time-consuming to develop and difficult to maintain. We are
addressing this problem by creating the technology and tools for
rapidly constructing information mediators that extract, query, and
integrate data from web sources. We demonstrate the resulting system, called Ariadne,
which makes it feasible to rapidly build information mediators that access
existing web sources. Please refer to the Ariadne web site for further
information on the project.