A formal framework for ER schema transformation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1331, Issue , 1997, Pages 408-421

  McBrien, Peter ^a   Poulovassilis, Alexandra ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

COMMON DATA MODEL; ER-MODELS; FORMAL FRAMEWORK; FORMALISATION; SCHEMA TRANSFORMATION; SEMANTIC SCHEMATA;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84948992549     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63699-4_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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