Until recently, most data integration techniques involved central components, e.g., global schemas, to enable transparent access to heterogeneous databases. Today, however, with t...
We enunciate the need for watermarking database relations to deter data piracy, identify the characteristics of relational data that pose unique challenges for watermarking, and de...
Testing remains a major challenge for model transformation development. Test models that are used as test data for model transformations, are constrained by various sources of kno...
For developing data warehouse (DW) and OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems, the dominant relational database reaches its limitations. On the way of the development, object...
Abstract. We show that production rules and persistent queues together provide a convenient mechanism for maintaining consistency in semantically heterogeneous multidatabase enviro...