Specification preservation in schema transformations - Application to semantics and statistics

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 99-134

  Hainaut, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CASE tools; Database engineering; Schema transformation; Statistics modelling; Wide spectrum data model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ABSTRACTION LEVELS; DATABASE ENGINEERING; SCHEMA TRANSFORMATIONS; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATION PRESERVATION; WIDE SPECTRUM DATA MODEL;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030172885     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-023X(95)00041-P     Document Type: Article

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