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What is integration along the fibers in D-module theory?

In Hotta, Takeuchi, Tanisaki's book on "D-modules, Perverse Sheaves, and Representation theory", for a morphism of smooth algebraic varieties $f:X \to Y$, they use the notation $$ \int_f:D^b(D_X^{op}) \to D^b(D_Y^{op}) $$ for the derived pushforward of right $D$-modules. What motivates this notation with the integral? I have hear this has something to do with "integrating along the fibers", but wikipedia gives an article about partially integrating differential forms.

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