— Real-world databases often have extremely complex schemas. With thousands of entity types and relationships, each with a hundred or so attributes, it is extremely difficult fo...
If you have ever encountered a piece of highly domain-specific business software, you may have noticed that it was largely a graphical front-end to some relational database. You ...
The widespread adoption of XML holds out the promise that document structure can be exploited to specify precise database queries. However, the user may have only a limited knowle...
Physical data independence is touted as a central feature of modern database systems. Both relational and object-oriented systems, however, force users to frame their queries in t...
Odysseas G. Tsatalos, Marvin H. Solomon, Yannis E....
Schema matching identifies elements of two given schemas that correspond to each other. Although there are many algorithms for schema matching, little has been written about build...
Philip A. Bernstein, Sergey Melnik, Michalis Petro...