Supporting graceful schema evolution represents an unsolved problem for traditional information systems that is further exacerbated in web information systems, such as Wikipedia a...
— We propose a new approach to the problem of schema matching in relational databases that merges the hybrid and composite approach of combining multiple individual matching tech...
There is a growing need to define a semantic mapping from a database schema to an ontology. Such a mapping is an integral part of the data integration systems that use an ontology...
— Real-world databases often have extremely complex schemas. With thousands of entity types and relationships, each with a hundred or so attributes, it is extremely difficult fo...
View mechanisms, widely used in the relational databases, pose new questions in the object model which captures much more semantics. In this paper, we will focus on inheritance and...