What is this product? ADINA (Architecture for Distributed INformation
Access) is a research system that enables
simplified dynamic access to unrelated data sources through the Internet. The
user or the accessing application needs no knowledge of the underlying data source
locations, schemas, inter-relationships, and query languages. LEARN MORE . . .
What
can it do? ADINA provides
a powerful environment for virtual data warehousing, data mining, and knowledge
discovery. ADINA can be used for numerous and assorted enterprise computing applications,
such as E-commerce, finance and accounting, business, science, and manufacturing.LEARN MORE . . .
What
are the benefits? Traditional
access vs. ADINA access Traditionally, application programmers require vast knowledge and skills and must consider many
issues when formulating queries to multiple data sources. They must:
Discover which data sources
provide the needed information.
Understand
the underlying schemes and ontologies.
Be
familiar with multiple access or query languages.
Understand
the terminologies unique to each data source.
Understand
how the distributed sources are interrelated.
In
addition, interface screens are tied to very specific queries, relying upon structures
of the underlying sources.
ADINA minimizes
the application programmer's burdens by insulating the programmers from this specialized
knowledge and understanding of the data environment. Programmers consider only
simplified requests and HCI requirements in terminology familiar to them. ADINA
handles the specialized data access to multiple sources and aggregates the results.LEARN MORE . . .
How
ADINA works A user or application formulates
a high level request for data and forwards it to ADINA. ADINA, in turn, automatically
formulates and submits complex distributed queries to the pertinent data sources.
The results from these data sources are aggregated by ADINA and returned to the
user or application.LEARN MORE: ADINA Architecture . .
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