A Declarative XML-RL Update Language
With the wide adoption of XML, it is a natural requirement to allow users to directly update XML documents....
Strategy for Database Application Evolution: The DB-MAIN Approach
While recent data management technologies, e.g., object-oriented, address the problem of databases schema evolution, standard information systems currently in...
Resolving Structural Conflicts in the Integration of XML Schemas: A Semantic Approach
While the Internet has facilitated access to information sources, the task of scalable integration of these heterogeneous data sources...
A UML Based Approach for Modeling ETL Processes in Data Warehouses
Data warehouses (DWs) are complex computer systems whose main goal is to facilitate the decision making process of knowledge...
Operators and Classification for Data Mapping in Semantic Integration
Adopting and reusing outsourced data is becoming increasingly popular. We consider that the integration of outsourced data has two...
A General Model for Online Analytical Processing of Complex Data
It has been well recognized that online analytical processing (OLAP) can provide important insights into huge archives of data....
Querying and Integrating Ontologies Viewed as Conceptual Schemas
Real-world ontologies have associated data sets. In order to exploit ontologies as a means to provide semantics to the...
An Interpolated Volume Model for Databases
In this paper we present a volume data model amenable to querying volumes in databases. Unlike most existing volume...
Integrity Constraints Definition in Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Languages
We propose two new methods for the definition of integrity constraints in object-oriented conceptual modeling languages. The first method...
Conceptual Treatment of Multivalued Dependencies
Multivalued dependencies are considered to be difficult to teach, to handle and to model. This observation is true if...
