Changes in the real world may require both the database population and the database schema to evolve. Particularly, this is the case in CAD/CAM and CASE database systems, in which...
Mediators – used in federated information systems – provide a homogeneous read-only access to a set of autonomous information sources. To achieve semantic integration of the h...
The complexity, cost, and down-time currently created by the database schema evolution process is the source of incessant problems in the life of information systems and a major s...
This paper describes an evolution framework supporting customisation of the schema evolution and instance adaptation approaches in an object database management system. The framew...
Abstract. This paper deals with updates of XML documents that satisfy a given schema, e.g., a DTD. In this context, when a given update violates the schema, it might be the case th...
Abstract. Most available approaches for XML schema evolution specify the evolution steps for an XML schema or a DTD. This article will show that schema evolution can also be realiz...
We study the problem of schema evolution in the RDF data model. RDF and the RDFS schema language are W3C standards for flexibly modeling and sharing data on the web. Although sch...
Abstract—With the wide support for serialization in objectoriented programming languages, persistent objects have become common place. Retrieving previously “persisted” objec...
Marco Piccioni, Manuel Oriol, Bertrand Meyer, Tese...
A multi-tenant database system for Software as a Service (SaaS) should offer schemas that are flexible in that they can be extended for different versions of the application and d...
Stefan Aulbach, Dean Jacobs, Alfons Kemper, Michae...