Uniform techniques for deriving similarities of objects and subschemes in heterogeneous databases

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 271-294

  Palopoli, Luigi ^a   Saccà, Domenico ^b   Terracina, Giorgio ^a   Ursino, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Database interoperability; Derivation of database semantics; Heterogeneous databases; Homonymies; Subscheme similarities; Synonymies; Type conflicts

Indexed keywords

METRIC SYSTEM; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

HETEROGENEOUS DATABASES;

DATA WAREHOUSES;

EID: 0037342958     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2003.1185834     Document Type: Article

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