A Uniform methodology for extracting type conflicts and subscheme similarities from heterogeneous databases

Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 527-552

  Terracina, Giorgio ^a   Ursino, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

HETEROGENEOUS DATABASES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034498681     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4379(00)00034-X     Document Type: Article

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