Translating data and data access operations between applications and databases is a longstanding data management problem. We present a novel approach to this problem, in which the...
Supporting legacy applications when the database schema evolves represents a long-standing challenge of practical and theoretical importance. Recent work has produced algorithms a...
Carlo Curino, Hyun Jin Moon, Alin Deutsch, Carlo Z...
Metaphor is not merely a rhetorical device, characteristic of language alone, but rather a fundamental feature of the human conceptual system. A metaphor is understood by finding ...
Karin Koogan Breitman, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barb...
Despite evidence that the majority of knowledge management (KM) initiatives miscarry, there has been a paucity of critical, in-depth research into the causes of failure. In this p...
A definition of types in an information system is given from ld abstractions through data constructs, schema and definitions to physical data values. Category theory suggests tha...