Abstract—We introduce schema covering, the problem of identifying easily understandable common objects for describing large and complex schemas. Defining transformations between...
In this paper we study the problem of schema exchange, a natural extension of the data exchange problem to an intensional level. To this end, we first introduce the notion of sche...
The richer data models of object relational databases opens many more options for the logical design of a database schema increasing the complexity of logical database design enorm...
Abstract. In heterogeneous data warehousing environments, autonomous data sources are integrated into a materialised integrated database. The schemas of the data sources and the in...
We study the problem of schema evolution in the RDF data model. RDF and the RDFS schema language are W3C standards for flexibly modeling and sharing data on the web. Although sch...