Identifying object isomerism in multidatabase systems

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 143-168

  Chen, Arbee L P ^a   Tsai, Pauray S M ^a   Koh, Jia Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data schema integration conflicts; Multidatabase systems; Object isomerism; Object schema integration; Probabilistic partial values

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (COMPUTER); KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; QUERY LANGUAGES;

MULTIDATABASE SYSTEMS; OBJECT ISOMERISM; OBJECT SCHEMA INTEGRATION; PROBABILISTIC QUERY PROCESSING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030127426     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00204905     Document Type: Article

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