A semantic meta-modelling approach to schema transformation

Authors: 
Papazoglou, M.P.; Russell, N.
Author: 
Papazoglou, M
Russell, N
Year: 
1995
Venue: 
CIKM 1995, Baltimore MD, USA
URL: 
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=221270.221347
Citations: 
26
Citations range: 
10 - 49

This paper presents an intermediate meta-model that consists
of a set of generic meta-classes that capture and describe
the semantics of a variety of data models. A model is
described by a set of intermediate model meta-classes (organized
in the form of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) to
achieve extensibility y), while irtst antes of these meta-classes
are used to describe a schema in a given data model. The
proposed approach supports dynamic meta-schema comparison
and transformation by employing special-purpose transformation
rules.