A comparative analysis of methodologies for database schema integration
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A Theory of Attributed Equivalence in Databases with Application to Schema Integration
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Optimization of large join queries: combining heuristics and combinatorial techniques
SIGMOD '89 Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
On resolving schematic heterogeneity in multidatabase systems
Modern database systems
Semantic heterogeneity in multidatabase systems
Object-oriented multidatabase systems
Storing semistructured data with STORED
SIGMOD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
XML-based information mediation with MIX
SIGMOD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Simulated annealing and combinatorial optimization
DAC '86 Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
From semistructured data to XML
Markup Languages
Adding Structure to Unstructured Data
ICDT '97 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Database Theory
DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases
VLDB '97 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Using Schema Matching to Simplify Heterogeneous Data Translation
VLDB '98 Proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases Using Neural Networks
VLDB '94 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Accessing Heterogeneous Data Through Homogenization and Integration Mediators
COOPIS '97 Proceedings of the Second IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
Knowledge Based Integration of Heterogeneous Databases
Proceedings of the IFIP WG 2.6 Database Semantics Conference on Interoperable Database Systems (DS-5)
Enhancing Semistructured Data Mediators with Document Type Definitions
ICDE '99 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering
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Mediator architectures have become popular for systems that aim at providing transparent access to heterogeneous information sources. Similar to a view on a database, a mediator answers queries posed against the common domain schema by executing one or more queries against its underlying information sources and mapping the results back into the common schema. The mapping is usually specified declaratively by a set of rules, where the rule heads define queries against a common domain schema and the rule bodies define their implementations in terms of queries against one or more source schemas. In this paper a mechanism is presented that supports finding these mappings, a task that requires a fair amount of knowledge about the underlying schemas and that involves a lot of effort, thus becoming a major obstacle to scalability.