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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-021-11-1439</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23652</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>H.2.0 - General</subject>
          <subject>H.2.4 - Systems</subject>
          <subject>H.2.5 - Heterogeneous Databases</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Synchronizing Data through Update Queries in Interoperable E-Health and Technology Enhanced Learning Data Sharing Systems</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Masud</surname>
            <given-names>Mehedi</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">mmasud@tu.edu.sa</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Hossain</surname>
            <given-names>M. Shamim</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Alamri</surname>
            <given-names>Atif</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Almogren</surname>
            <given-names>Ahmad</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Zakariah</surname>
            <given-names>Mohammed</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia</addr-line>
        <institution>Taif University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Taif</addr-line>
        <country>Saudi Arabia</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia</addr-line>
        <institution>King Saud University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Riyadh</addr-line>
        <country>Saudi Arabia</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Mehedi Masud (<email xlink:type="simple">mmasud@tu.edu.sa</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>21</volume>
      <issue>11</issue>
      <fpage>1439</fpage>
      <lpage>1453</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/9B1FC580-1863-508E-89E2-55525E525B7D">9B1FC580-1863-508E-89E2-55525E525B7D</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5505757">5505757</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>10</day>
          <month>05</month>
          <year>2014</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>12</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2015</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Mehedi Masud, M. Shamim Hossain, Atif Alamri, Ahmad Almogren, Mohammed Zakariah</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Data interoperability and synchronization among heterogeneous data providers in collaborative e-health systems are challenging research issues. Efficient data management techniques promote an efficient way of sharing data. This paper describes existing approaches to data interoperability (platform independency) for exchanging and synchronizing data between heterogeneous data sources or various platforms. We also illustrate an update query execution protocol, which can reduce query execution cost and query response time. We further perform different experiments to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.</p>
      </abstract>
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