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EKAW
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Formal Ontology of Properties
A common problem of ontologies is that their taxonomic structure is often poor and confusing. This is typically exemplified by the unrestrained use of subsumption to accomplish a v...
Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
163views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 10 months ago
Constraint-Based XML Query Rewriting For Data Integration
We study the problem of answering queries through a target schema, given a set of mappings between one or more source schemas and this target schema, and given that the data is at...
Cong Yu, Lucian Popa
INFORMATICALT
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Extraction of Object-oriented Schemas from Existing Relational Databases: a Form-driven Approach
In this paper, we present our Form-driven approach for reverse engineering of relationa databases. This methodology uses the information extracted from both form structure and inst...
Mimoun Malki, André Flory, Mustapha Kamal R...
ENTCS
2002
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13 years 9 months ago
Sketch Data Models, Relational Schema and Data Specifications
When different mathematical models are used for software analysis and development it is important to understand their relationships. When the models are truly mathematical, and wh...
Michael Johnson, Robert D. Rosebrugh
EDBT
2006
ACM
106views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
14 years 10 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