A general technique for merging database schemas is developed that has a number of advantages over existing techniques, the most important of which is that schemas are placed in a...
When different mathematical models are used for software analysis and development it is important to understand their relationships. When the models are truly mathematical, and wh...
: Many model management tasks, e.g., schema matching or merging, require the manual handling of metadata. Given the diversity of metadata, its many different representations and mo...
Data fusion is the final step of a typical data integration process, after schematic conflicts have been overcome and after duplicates have been correctly identified. We present t...
Yuri Gurevich made many varied and deep contributions to logic for computer science. Logic provides also the theoretical foundation of database systems. Hence, it is almost unavoid...