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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic schema merging using mapping constraints among incomplete sources
Schema merging is the process of consolidating multiple schemas into a unified view. The task becomes particularly challenging when the schemas are highly heterogeneous and autono...
Xiang Li 0002, Christoph Quix, David Kensche, Sand...
ICDE
2003
IEEE
102views Database» more  ICDE 2003»
14 years 9 months ago
Schema Mediation in Peer Data Management Systems
Intuitively, data management and data integration tools should be well-suited for exchanging information in a semantically meaningful way. Unfortunately, they suffer from two sign...
Alon Y. Halevy, Zachary G. Ives, Dan Suciu, Igor T...
VLDB
2011
ACM
245views Database» more  VLDB 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
Normalization and optimization of schema mappings
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. They are an important tool in several areas of database research, notab...
Georg Gottlob, Reinhard Pichler, Vadim Savenkov
EDBT
2009
ACM
145views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Interactive query refinement
We investigate the problem of refining SQL queries to satisfy cardinality constraints on the query result. This has applications to the many/few answers problems often faced by da...
Chaitanya Mishra, Nick Koudas
VLDB
2002
ACM
157views Database» more  VLDB 2002»
14 years 8 months ago
A formal perspective on the view selection problem
The view selection problem is to choose a set of views to materialize over a database schema, such that the cost of evaluating a set of workload queries is minimized and such that ...
Rada Chirkova, Alon Y. Halevy, Dan Suciu