Effective use of heterogeneous, distributed information in a coherent, integrated fashion has long been a 'holy grail'. The UK Health and Social care domain is an example where a global view is needed to facilitate decision making, whilst having ethical and legal concerns. The IBHIS project aims to provide an integrated broker that enables coherent use of a set of distributed, heterogeneous data sources, whilst ensuring trustworthiness and audit. This paper presents a service-oriented federated architecture for the IBHIS broker.
Citation:
Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, John Keane, Mark Turner, Paul Layzell, Fujun Zhu, "IBHIS: Integration Broker for Heterogeneous Information Sources," compsac, pp.378, 27th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2003