A comparative analysis of methodologies for database schema integration
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
The TSIMMIS Approach to Mediation: Data Models and Languages
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: next generation information technologies and systems
OLAP solutions: building multidimensional information systems
OLAP solutions: building multidimensional information systems
SIGMOD '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
A formalisation of semantic schema integration
Information Systems
Storing semistructured data with STORED
SIGMOD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
The Clio project: managing heterogeneity
ACM SIGMOD Record
Specifying OLAP Cubes on XML Data
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities
VLDB '99 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation
VLDB '93 Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
A Semantic Approach to Integrating XML and Structured Data Sources
CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Declarative specification of Web sites with S
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
XML conceptual modeling using UML
ER'00 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Interoperability mapping from XML schemas to ER diagrams
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Research in data warehouse modeling and design: dead or alive?
DOLAP '06 Proceedings of the 9th ACM international workshop on Data warehousing and OLAP
Reverse engineering of XML schemas to conceptual diagrams
APCCM '09 Proceedings of the Sixth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modeling - Volume 96
A generic framework for extracting XML data from legacy databases
Journal of Web Engineering
Constructing complex semantic mappings between XML data and ontologies
ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
When conceptual model meets grammar: A dual approach to XML data modeling
Data & Knowledge Engineering
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Extensible Markup Language (XML) is fast becoming the new standard for data representation and exchange on the World Wide Web, e.g., in B2B e-commerce. Modern enterprises need to combine data from many sources in order to answer important business questions, creating a need for integration of web-based XML data. Previous web-based data integration efforts have focused almost exclusively on the logical level of data models, creating a need for techniques that focus on the conceptual level in order to communicate the structure and properties of the available data to users at a higher level of abstraction. The most widely used conceptual model at the moment is the Unified Modeling Language (UML).This paper presents algorithms for automatically constructing UML diagrams from XML DTDs, enabling fast and easy graphical browsing of XML data sources on the web. The algorithms capture important semantic properties of the XML data such as precise cardinalities and aggregation (containment) relationships between the data elements. As a motivating application, it is shown how the generated diagrams can be used for the conceptual design of data warehouses based on web data, and an integration architecture is presented. The choice of data warehouses and On-Line Analytical Processing as the motivating application is another distinguishing feature of the presented approach.