Relative information capacity of simple relational database schemata
SIAM Journal on Computing
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Correspondence and translation for heterogeneous data
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VLDB '93 Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Interactive schema translation with instance-level mappings
VLDB '05 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Very large data bases
MIDST: model independent schema and data translation
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Model-independent schema translation
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
A runtime approach to model-independent schema and data translation
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Journal of Web Engineering
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EDBT'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advances in Database Technology
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ER'05 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
Polymorphism in datalog and inheritance in a metamodel
FoIKS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems
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We refer to the problem of translating schemas from a data model to another, in a multi-model framework. Specifically, we consider an approach where translations are specified as Datalog-like programs. In this context we show how it is possible to reason on models and schemas involved as input and output for a translation. The various notions are formalized: (i) concise descriptions of models in terms of sets of constructs, with associated propositional formulas; (ii) a notion of signature for translation rules (with the property that signatures can be automatically computed out of rules); (iii) the application of signatures to models. The main result is that the target model of a translation can be completely characterized given the description of the source model and the signatures of the rules. This result is being exploited in the framework of a tool that implements model generic translations, as the basis for the automatic generation of translations out of a library of elementary ones.