What is Mediator

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Systems that filter information from one or more data sources that are usually accessed using wrappers. The main goal of these systems is to allow users to make complex queries over heterogeneous sources as if it were a single one, using an integration schema. Mediators offer user interfaces for querying the system based on the integration schema. They transform user queries into a set of subqueries that other software components (the wrappers), which encapsulate data sources’ capabilities, will solve. Learn more in: Data Integration: Introducing Semantics

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A variable that explains the relationship between a dependent and an independent variable, outlining the basis for which one variable affects or influences the other. In this chapter, activity is proposed as a mediating variable/mediator of the relationship between public space users and their auditory environments. Learn more in: Activity as a Mediator Between Users and Their Auditory Environment in an Urban Pocket Park: A Case Study of Parc du Portugal (Montreal, Canada)

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A negotiator who acts as a link between parties, the neutral who carries out the dispute resolution process called mediation. Learn more in: Spatial Data Integration Over the Web

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An impartial person outside the conflict interferes with the issue to support the conflict resolution and the communication between the parties involved. Learn more in: Peaceful Solution of Conflicts in Schools

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A person who acts as a third party in a mediation process, and uses a variety of communication and negotiation techniques, to help the parties involved in mediation find solutions to their dispute. Learn more in: Mediation in Schools: How to Build a Peer Mediation Program

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A software component of a knowledge-based system that is used to isolate problem solvers from the logistical issues associated with accessing the database. Mediator is as an intermediate abstraction layer between databases and applications that use them. Learn more in: Mediation and Ontology-Based Framework for Interoperability

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A person who helps people to use services of a telecentre. He interacts with ICT on behalf of a person who lacks IT skills. Learn more in: Telecentres as a Medium for Good Governance in Rural India

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A software component providing a uniform integrated interface to process and execute queries over data stored in multiple, heterogeneous data sources. Learn more in: A Web-Geographical Information System to Support Territorial Data Integration