Modeling and manipulating the structure of hierarchical schemas for the web

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 985-1010

  Dalamagas, Theodore ^a   Meliou, Alexandra ^b   Sellis, Timos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical schemas; Schema difference; Schema integration; Schema intersection; Schema union; Structural manipulation

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; DATA ACQUISITION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTIC WEB; SET THEORY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WORLD WIDE WEB;

HIERARCHICAL SCHEMAS; SCHEMA DIFFERENCE; SCHEMA INTEGRATION; SCHEMA INTERSECTION; SCHEMA UNION; STRUCTURAL MANIPULATION;

SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS;

EID: 36549006080     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.09.022     Document Type: Article

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