Semantic database modeling: survey, applications, and research issues
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Schema equivalence in heterogeneous systems: bridging theory and practice
Information Systems - Special issue on extending database technology
Managing semantic heterogeneity in databases: a theoretical prospective
PODS '97 Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
A vision for management of complex models
ACM SIGMOD Record
Management of Multiple Models in an Extensible Database Design Tool
EDBT '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
ModelGen: Model Independent Schema Translation
ICDE '05 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering
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Many application settings involve the need to exchange information between heterogeneous frameworks. In the database world, we often use different systems to handle data, following different models, and we therefore need to translate data and their description from one to another. The problem has been considered for decades in our field, but definitive solutions are not yet available. The problem is relevant at the schema level (for example, every designer works with a conceptual model, such as ER or UML, and then translates the conceptual schema into a logical model, usually relational), and at the data level, when we have databases, and we want to translate them into some other system, which may be similar (for example, with a slightly different version of the relational model) or completely different (for example, XML documents).