The authors have proposed using category-theoretic sketches to enhance database design and integration methodologies. The algebraic context is called the Sketch Data Model (SkDM) a...
"Sparse" data, in which relations have many attributes that are null for most tuples, presents a challenge for relational database management systems. If one uses the no...
Jennifer L. Beckmann, Alan Halverson, Rajasekar Kr...
Model management is an approach to simplify the programming of metadata-intensive applications. It offers developers powerful operators, such as Compose, Diff, and Merge, that are...
Sergey Melnik, Philip A. Bernstein, Alon Y. Halevy...
Although research in data integration has become one of the main issues in [6], geographic data integration is still a laborious and complicated problem, even for specialists. Geo...
This paper considers the problem of adding list as a type constructor to an object-oriented data model. In particular, we are concerned with how lists in a database can be constru...