The term "application profile" has recently become highly topical. Heery and Patel [1] define application profiles as metadata schemas which consist of metadata elements...
View mechanisms, widely used in the relational databases, pose new questions in the object model which captures much more semantics. In this paper, we will focus on inheritance and...
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...
: XML is an effective universal data-interchange format, and XML Schema has become the preeminent mechanism for describing valid XML document structures. Generalization/specializat...
Reema Al-Kamha, David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle
The \observational content" of geometric logic is discussed and it is proposed that geometric logic is an appropriate basis for a Z-like speci cation language in which schema...