A formalisation of semantic schema integration

Information Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 307-334

  McBrien, Peter ^a   Poulovassilis, Alexandra ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Schema Equivalence; Schema Integration; Schema Transformation

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

SCHEMA EQUIVALENCE; SCHEMA INTEGRATION; SCHEMA TRANSFORMATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0032116584     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4379(98)00014-3     Document Type: Article

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