Abstract. This paper presents techniques and tools to transform spreadsheets into relational databases and back. A set of data refinement rules is introduced to map a tabular data...
As XML data storage and interchange become ubiquitous, analysts and data engineers increasingly need tools to model their data and map it to XML schemas and to reverse engineer XML...
Reema Al-Kamha, David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle
Web communities involve networks of loosely coupled data sources. Members in those communities should be able to pose queries and gather results from all data sources in the networ...
The Semantic Web will allow software agents to understand and reason about data provided by Web applications. Unfortunately, formal ontologies, needed to express data semantics, ar...
Matthias Ferdinand, Christian Zirpins, David Trast...
Schema mappings are logical assertions that specify the relationships between a source and a target schema in a declarative way. The specification of such mappings is a fundamenta...