An Active XML-based framework for integrating complex data

Data integration is a critical problem in data warehousing and decision-support systems. Traditional data integration systems are very successful in integrating structured data, but structured data represent only a small subset of interesting data that could be warehoused by many enterprises. Current data integration systems also lack of self-managing capabilities. Therefore, we propose a data integration framework for integrating complex data actively. The purpose of our framework is twofold. Firstly, it integrates complex data using Web standards into an Active XML (AXML) repository. Secondly, beside warehousing logged events into event repository, it exploits active rules and framework events mining to self-manage, automate and activate different data integration tasks. Finally, we have implemented a prototype framework as a web application.