Rondo: A Programming Platform for Generic Model Management

Model management aims at reducing the amount of programming needed for the development of metadata-intensive applications. We present a first complete prototype of a generic modelmanagement system, in which high-level operators are used to manipulate models and mappings between models. We define the key conceptual structures: models, morphisms, and selectors, and describe their use and implementation. We specify the semantics of the known model-management operators applied to these structures, suggest new ones, and develop new algorithms for implementing the individual operators. We examine the solutions for two model-management tasks that involve manipulations of relational schemas, XML schemas, and SQL views.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SIGMOD
• Authors: Sergey Melnik, Erhard Rahm, Philip A. Bernstein
• Keywords: Database, Individual Operators, Key Conceptual Structures, Relational Schemas, SIGMOD 2003