With the steadily increasing availability of information on the internet and incorporate databases the demand for structured approaches to identifying andmaking... » 

With the steadily increasing availability of information on the internet and incorporate databases the demand for structured approaches to identifying andmaking use of relevant information is growing rapidly. This book provides anintroduction on how heterogeneous data sources can be integrated to form asingle source of information for a given information need. State of the artinformation retrieval methods are described and a workflowbased approach todata integration is introduced in this book. Besides theoretical foundationsthe book provides details on the pracatical application of patternbasedworkflows to retrieve the data which is required in a particular situation. Thepatternbased approach for information retrieval can be used for applicationsin knowledge management and other areas where relevant information is stored invarious data sources. «