As an acronym, TSIMMIS stands for
"The Stanford-IBM
Manager of Multiple Information Sources."
In addition, TSIMMIS is a Yiddish word for a stew with "heterogeneous" fruits
and vegetables integrated into a surprisingly tasty whole.
Short Project Description
The goal of the TSIMMIS Project is to develop tools that facilitate the rapid
integration of heterogeneous information sources that may include both
structured and semistructured data. TSIMMIS has components that:
translate queries and information (source wrappers);
extract data from World Wide Web sites;
combine information from several sources (mediator);
