Conceptual modeling techniques such as EER, ORM and to some extent the UML have been developed in the past for building information systems. These techniques or suitable extensions...
Abiteboul et al. initiated the systematic study of distributed XML documents consisting of several logical parts, possibly located on different machines. The physical distributio...
In this paper, we address the problem of supporting more exibility on the schema of object-oriented databases. We describe a general framework based on an object-oriented data mode...
The paper presents an approach for automatically extracting views from a relational database schema, based on the knowledge of the application domain. In order to achieve such resu...
: Molecular biology data are placed in different databases, repositories and flat files, usually distributed over the web. Distinct data models with schemas that are often changing...