Meta object approach to database schema integration

Proceedings - DOA 2000: International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 145-154

  Tan, J ^a   Zaslavsky, A ^a   Bond, A ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bonding; Computer science; Database systems; Distributed databases; Environmental management; Middleware; Object oriented databases; Software engineering; Warehousing

Indexed keywords

BONDING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA WAREHOUSES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATION; METADATA; MIDDLEWARE; OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WAREHOUSES;

AUSTRALIA; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE; DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS; META OBJECT FACILITY; MULTI-DATABASE SYSTEMS; OBJECT-ORIENTED MIDDLEWARE; SCHEMA INTEGRATION; WAREHOUSING;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84952329486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DOA.2000.874186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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