Superviews: Virtual Integration of Multiple Databases

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-13, Issue 7, 1987, Pages 785-798

  Motro, Amihai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Database; database integration; database view; multidatabase environment; query mapping; superview; virtual database

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATABASE SUPERVIEWS; MULTIDATABASE ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL DATABASES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0023382987     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1987.233490     Document Type: Article

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