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Modeling and Merging Database Schemas

... that can be made by querying a database system, and, in particular, look at which observations are valid for a particular database ... being merged. However we establish that one cannot, in general, find a meaningful binary merging operator which is associative, ...

Publication - huliganka - 07/03/2022 - 23:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Laconic Schema Mappings: Computing the Core with SQL Queries

... over the target schema that satisfies the schema mapping. In general, a given source instance may have numerous different solutions. ...

Publication - hartung - 04/17/2013 - 12:16 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Structural characterizations of schema-mapping languages

... this challenge that have received considerable attention in recent years are data exchange and data integration. The study of data ... database schemas. Schema mappings are typically expressed in declarative languages based on logical formalisms and are chosen with two ...

Publication - cat - 04/17/2013 - 11:16 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Update Semantics of Relational Views

... A database view is a portion of the data structured in a way suitable to a specific on views must be translated into updates on the underlying database. This translation process in the relational model. The procedure is as follows: first, a “complete” ...

Publication - erhard - 04/17/2013 - 09:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A formal model for temporal schema versioning in object-oriented databases

... 10 - 49 In this paper we present a formal model for the support of temporal schema versions in object-oriented databases. Its definition is partially based on a generic ...

Publication - fgrandi - 04/17/2013 - 08:49 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

An Axiomatic Model of Dynamic Schema Evolution in Objectbase Systems

... model is proposed for dynamic schema evolution (DSE) in objectbase systems (OBSs) that supports the fundamental concepts of ...

Publication - erhard - 04/17/2013 - 08:49 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Maintenance of views

... 970.14 KB In relational databases a view definition is a query against the database, and ... materialization over a database may change as relations in the database undergo modificationsIn this paper a mechanism is proposed in which the view is materialized at all times The problem which this mechanism ...

Publication - cat - 04/17/2013 - 08:05 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Schema Evolution for XML: A Consistency-preserving Approach

... 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 ... to be used by a data administrator who is an expert in the domain of application of the database, but who is not required to be a ...

Publication - cat - 04/17/2013 - 07:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Data integration by bi-directional schema transformation rules

... 100 - 499 In this paper we describe a new approach to data integration which subsumes the ...

Publication - cat - 04/17/2013 - 07:16 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A new algorithm for clustering search results

... the algorithm is such that the SVD computation step has in practice good performance, which makes it feasible to perform clustering ...

Publication - salva - 04/17/2013 - 06:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Core Schema Mappings

... are yet no mapping systems that support core computations. In this paper we introduce several new algorithms that contribute to bridge the ...

Publication - salva - 04/17/2013 - 06:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Rank Aggregation for Automatic Schema Matching

... tools for automating it have been proposed and evaluated in the database community. Research in this area reveals that there is no single schema matcher that is guaranteed ...

Publication - avigal - 04/17/2013 - 02:05 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

An Introduction to the ATLAS Model Management Architecture

... “model” is today considered as a promising technology in domains such as data and software engineering. In the field of model engineering, models are now viewed as firts-class ...

Publication - huliganka - 04/17/2013 - 00:49 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Change detection in hierarchically structured information

... version and configuration management. Most previous work in change management has dealt with flat-file and relational data; we focus on hierarchically structured data. Since in many cases changes must be computed from old and new versions of the data, ...

Publication - huliganka - 04/17/2013 - 00:49 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Meaningful change detection in structured data

... databases, and version and configuration management. In this paper we focus on detecting meaningful changes in hierarchically structured data, such as nested-object data. This problem is ...

Publication - huliganka - 04/17/2013 - 00:38 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

On lossless tranformation of databases schemes not necessarily satisfying universal instance assumption

... to the original one. This question was addressed in the literature with respect to those relational schemes that satisfy the so ... \"tractable\" We are able to test losslessness defined in such a way for a wide class of relational expressions and dependencies. An ...

Publication - huliganka - 04/17/2013 - 00:27 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

An O(ND) Difference Algorithm and Its Variations

... A into B have long been known to be dual problems. In this paper, they are shown to be equivalent to finding a shortest/longest path in an edit graph. Using this perspective, a simple O(ND) time and space ...

Publication - huliganka - 04/16/2013 - 23:16 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Theoretical Aspects of Schema Merging

... the most important of which is that schemas are placed in a partial order that has bounded joins. This means that the merging ... that the merge of schemas is independent of the order in which they are considered --- a property not possessed by existing ...

Publication - huliganka - 04/16/2013 - 20:38 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

A Model Theory for Generic Schema Management

... A subtle problem of schema integration is considered in its general form, not bound to any particular category of schemas. The ... theory are established that apply to integrity problems in schema integration. The theory is illustrated by a particular category of ...

Publication - huliganka - 04/16/2013 - 19:27 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Composing Schema Mappings: Second-Order Dependencies to the Rescue

... effect as applying successively the two schema mappings. In this paper, we give a rigorous semantics to the composition of schema ... We first study the important case of schema mappings in which the specification is given by a finite set of source-to-target ...

Publication - cat - 04/16/2013 - 19:16 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Generic Model Management: Concepts and Algorithms

... such applications by providing a database infrastructure in which a set of high-level algebraic operators, such as Match, Merge, and ... and develop novel algorithms for implementing them. In particular, we present an innovative algorithm based on fixpoint ...

Publication - cat - 04/16/2013 - 18:38 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Inverting Schema Mappings

... of interest arises when S is the class of all instances, in which case an S-inverse is a global inverse. We focus on the important ... we show how to construct an S-inverse when one exists. In particular, we show how to construct a global inverse when one exists. ...

Publication - cat - 04/16/2013 - 18:27 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Relational languages for metadata integration

... 676.21 KB In this article, we develop a relational algebra for metadata integration, ... where the number of relations and/or the number of columns in relations of the output varies dynamically with the input instance. Among ... generalized dynamic output schemas, where the values in any (fixed) number of input columns can determine output schemas.Further ...

Publication - cat - 04/16/2013 - 18:27 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

On the computation of relational view complements

... parts of a given data collection play an important role in many database applications. In dynamic environments where data is updated, not only information provided by ...

Publication - cat - 04/16/2013 - 18:16 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Management of Multiple Models in an Extensible Database Design Tool

... is based on a classification of the constructs used in the known data model into a limited set of types Then on the basis of ... deriving \"good\" translations between schemes and more in general between models Finally we define the architecture and the ...

Publication - huliganka - 04/16/2013 - 15:49 - 0 comments - 1 attachment