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The management of changing types in an object-oriented database

... KB We examine the problem of type evolution in an object-oriented database environment. Type definitions are persistent objects in the database and as such may be modified and shared. The effects of changing ...

Publication - cat - 06/15/2023 - 14:51 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Evolution - The Other Side of the XML Update Coin

... systems support updates operations via special APIs. In all update languages the content and the structure of documents can be ... the XML schema after or during accomplishing an update. In this article, we suggest different architectures for processing such ...

Publication - cat - 06/15/2023 - 14:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Managing Multiple Ontologies and Ontology Evolution in Ontologging.

... applications building on Semantic Web technology. In this paper we first present the conceptual architecture underlying ...

Publication - cat - 06/15/2023 - 14:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Fuzzy Constraint-based Schema Matching Formulation.

... BIS conference' Workshop, 1st Workshop on Advances in Accessing Deep Web (ADW 2008), Innsbruck, Austria 5-7 May 2008. CEUR ... challenges to be solved. Among them is schema matching. In this paper, we build a conceptual connection between the schema matching ...

Publication - alsayed - 09/13/2022 - 17:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Schema Evolution in Heterogeneous Database Architectures, A Schema Transformation Approach

... integration and schema evolution into one framework. In previous work we have developed a general framework to support schema transformation and integration in heterogeneous database architectures. Here we show how this framework also ...

Publication - cat - 09/13/2022 - 17:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Schema evolution in object databases by catalogs

... We are concerned by schema evolution in Object Oriented Databases (OODB) that is processed by a modification on the ... a new categorization of the different modifications in three categories : primitive, composite and complexe modifications. On ...

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

NoSQL Schema Evolution and Data Migration: State-of-the-Art and Opportunities.

... even altogether schema-free. They allow to store datasets in different structural versions to co-exist. Yet even when the database ... about the structure of the stored data. For instance, in Figure 1, the Java code in lines 1 through 9 implies a schema: An entity for ...

Publication - cat - 04/17/2022 - 19:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Evolution of Biomedical Ontologies and Mappings: Overview of Recent Approaches

... These ontology-based mappings and annotations are used in many applications and analysis tasks. Since biomedical ontologies are ... approaches to keep ontology-based mappings up-to-date in the presence of evolving ontologies. In this article, we survey current ...

Publication - cat - 01/23/2018 - 14:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

REX - a tool for discovering evolution trends in ontology regions

... Proc. 10th Intl. Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) Citations ... of new insights and knowledge affects specific portions in ontologies and thus leads to their adaptation. Therefore, it is valuable to ...

Publication - cat - 01/23/2018 - 14:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Semi-Automatic Adaptation of Mappings between Life Science Ontologies

... Proc. 9th Intl. Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) Citations ... We propose two approaches for tackling this problem in a largely automatic way: (1) a composition-based adaptation relying on ...

Publication - cat - 01/23/2018 - 14:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

How do computed ontology mappings evolve? - A case study for life science ontologies

... to support data integration and analysis tasks. Changes in the ontologies also require the adaptation of ontology mappings. So far the ... attention albeit ontologies change continuously especially in the life sciences. We therefore analyze how mappings between popular life ...

Publication - hartung - 01/23/2018 - 14:25 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

How do computed ontology mappings evolve? - A case study for life science ontologies

... to support data integration and analysis tasks. Changes in the ontologies also require the adaptation of ontology mappings. So far the ... attention albeit ontologies change continuously especially in the life sciences. We therefore analyze how mappings between popular life ...

Publication - cat - 01/23/2018 - 14:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

COnto-Diff : Generation of Complex Evolution Mappings for Life Science Ontologies

... Such a Diff supports the synchronization of changes in collaborative curation, the adaptation of dependent data such as ... entire subgraphs. The proposed algorithm is customizable in different ways to meet the requirements of diverse ontologies and ... be used for version management and annotation migration in collaborative curation. (Diff, Journal, Ontology evolution, Research ...

Publication - hartung - 01/22/2018 - 09:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Towards a Multi-level Approach for the Maintenance of Semantic Annotations

... them (eg, search engines and decision support systems) in order to assure an acceptable level of performance. Despite the recent advances in ontology evolution systems, the maintenance of semantic annotations remains an open problem. In this paper, we introduce, based on previous experiments, the main ...

Publication - cat - 01/21/2018 - 12:16 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Impact of Ontology Evolution on Functional Analyses

... Motivation: Ontologies are used in the annotation and analysis of biological data. As knowledge accumulates, ... enrichment analyses that describe experimental data in terms of ontological groupings. Here we investigate to what degree ...

Publication - cat - 01/21/2018 - 12:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Schema versioning

... are involved. Moreover, system modifications that result in changes to database structure are relatively frequent [Sjoberg, D. 1992, ... schema is a common, but often troublesome, occurrence in database administration. These are significant industrial concerns, both ...

Publication - cat - 01/20/2018 - 09:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Beyond Schema Versioning: A Flexible Model for Spatio-Temporal Schema Selection

... Schema versioning provides a mechanism for handling change in the structure of database systems and has been investigated widely, both in the context of static and temporal databases. With the growing interest in ...

Publication - cat - 01/19/2018 - 18:46 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A model for schema versioning in temporal database systems

... to avoid the ad hoc, one-off extensions commonly employed in information systems design. Schema versioning is one of a number of related ... multiple schemata for various database related tasks. In particular, schema versioning, and its weaker companion, schema evolution, ...

Publication - cat - 01/19/2018 - 18:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A Unifying Framework for Version Control in a CAD Environment

... of the most important functions which need to be supported in integrated computer-aided design (CAD) systems. In this paper we address a broad spectrum of semantic and operational issues in ...

Publication - cat - 07/28/2016 - 08:29 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Towards a taxonomy of software evolution

... also allow practitioners to evaluate their potential use in particular change scenarios. As an initial step towards this taxonomy, the ...

Publication - cat - 07/26/2016 - 16:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Online, asynchronous schema change in F1

... We introduce a protocol for schema evolution in a globally distributed database management system with shared data, ... Our protocol is asynchronous--it allows different servers in the database system to transition to a new schema at different times--and ...

Publication - cat - 10/24/2013 - 14:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Metrics for the Prediction of Evolution Impact in ETL Ecosystems: A Case Study

... ETL architect needs to design and improve an ETL design in a way that satisfies both performance and correctness guarantees and often, she has to choose among various alternative designs. In this paper, we focus on ways to predict the maintenance effort of ETL ...

Publication - pvassil - 04/25/2013 - 08:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

An Architecture for Managing Database Evolution

... and extension) are available. The strategy of evolution in which our architecture is based is that of lsquoforward database ... down to the logical schema and to the extension. In order to put into practice this strategy, each component of a database is ... a translation information system is considered in order to manage the translation of conceptual elements into logical schema ...

Publication - cat - 04/17/2013 - 13:27 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Reverse engineering of relational databases: Extraction of an EER model from a relational database

... These have been demonstrated to be implementable in a knowledge-based system; a working prototype system which does so is briefly discussed. In addition, cases in which human input is required are also clearly identified. This research ...

Publication - cat - 04/17/2013 - 13:27 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Evaluating the validity of data instances against ontology evolution over the Semantic Web

... invalid, and as a result, may become non-interpretable. In this paper, we address precisely this problem, validity of data instances ... one component imply semantic changes to other components in the ontology. Third, we propose a validity identification approach that ...

Publication - cat - 04/17/2013 - 13:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments