Using the uni-level description (ULD) to support data-model interoperability

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 511-533

  Bowers, Shawn ^a   Delcambre, Lois ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; Data models; Information integration; Meta models; Schema constraints

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; METADATA;

CONCEPTUAL MODELING; INFORMATION INTEGRATION; META MODELS; SCHEMA CONSTRAINTS;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 33749244604     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2005.10.007     Document Type: Article

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