The richer data models of object relational databases opens many more options for the logical design of a database schema increasing the complexity of logical database design enorm...
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...
Current object database management systems support user-defined conversion functions to update the database once the schema has been modified. Two main strategies are possible whe...
Database schema integration is significant not only in building multidatabase systems but also in data warehousing. Metadata, which define schemas, are normally involved in the su...
HECATAEUS is an open-source software tool for enabling impact prediction, what-if analysis, and regulation of relational database schema evolution. We follow a graph theoretic appr...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Alkis Si...