The Model-Assisted Global Query System for Multiple Databases in Distributed Enterprises

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 421-470

  Cheung, Waiman ^a   Hsu, Cheng ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

H.2.3 Database Management : Languages query languages; H.2.4 Database Management : Systems distributed systems; H.2.7 Database Management : Database Administration data dictionary directory; Query processing

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LOGIC DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

ENTERPRISE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL QUERY SYSTEM; HARD CODED SCHEMA INTEGRATION; METADATABASES; MODEL TRAVERSAL; MULTIPLE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE INTELLIGENT ASSISTANCE;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 0030261973     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/237496.237499     Document Type: Article

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