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EDBT
2006
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Online, Non-blocking Relational Schema Changes
A database schema should be able to evolve to reflect changes to the universe it represents. In existing systems, user transactions get blocked during complex schema transformation...
Jørgen Løland, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd
ER
2005
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
A Multilevel Dictionary for Model Management
We discuss the main features of a multilevel dictionary based on a metamodel approach. The application is an implementation of ModelGen, the model management operator that translat...
Paolo Atzeni, Paolo Cappellari, Philip A. Bernstei...
OTM
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Inferring Complex Semantic Mappings Between Relational Tables and Ontologies from Simple Correspondences
There are many problems requiring a semantic account of a database schema. At its best, such an account consists of mapping formulas between the schema and a formal conceptual mode...
Yuan An, Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos
ER
2007
Springer
102views Database» more  ER 2007»
14 years 21 days ago
Relational Data Tailoring Through View Composition
This paper presents a methodology to derive views over a relational database by applying a sequence of appropriately defined operations to the global schema. Such tailoring and com...
Cristiana Bolchini, Elisa Quintarelli, Rosalba Ros...
VLDB
2004
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Preserving mapping consistency under schema changes
Abstract. In dynamic environments like the Web, data sources may change not only their data but also their schemas, their semantics, and their query capabilities.When a mapping is ...
Yannis Velegrakis, Renée J. Miller, Lucian Popa