ER model clustering as an aid for user communication and documentation in database design
Communications of the ACM
Conceptual schemas with abstractions making flat conceptual schemas more comprehensible
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Entity-relationship and object-oriented model automatic clustering
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Conceptual schema analysis: techniques and applications
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
A Rule-Based System Tool for Automated ER Model Clustering
Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Enity-Relationship Approach to Database Design and Querying
Abstraction Levels for Entity-Relationship Schemas
ER '94 Proceedings of the13th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach
The XML benchmark project
Similarity Flooding: A Versatile Graph Matching Algorithm and Its Application to Schema Matching
ICDE '02 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Data Engineering
Making database systems usable
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Identifying meaningful return information for XML keyword search
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Querying complex structured databases
VLDB '07 Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Very large data bases
Semantic peer, here are the neighbors you want!
EDBT '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Extending database technology: Advances in database technology
Schema polynomials and applications
EDBT '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Extending database technology: Advances in database technology
Discovering topical structures of databases
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Building a PDMS infrastructure for XML data sharing with SUNRISE
DataX '08 Proceedings of the 2008 EDBT workshop on Database technologies for handling XML information on the web
Automated creation of a forms-based database query interface
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Xoom: a tool for zooming in and out of XML documents
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
Exploring schema repositories with schemr
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
Efficient IR-Style Search over Web Services
CAiSE '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Summarizing vocabularies in the global semantic web
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Effective XML content and structure retrieval with relevance ranking
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
A fuzzy extension of the XPath query language
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Summarizing relational databases
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
On Computing the Importance of Entity Types in Large Conceptual Schemas
ER '09 Proceedings of the ER 2009 Workshops (CoMoL, ETheCoM, FP-UML, MOST-ONISW, QoIS, RIGiM, SeCoGIS) on Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Challenging Perspectives
A novel XML keyword query approach using entity subtree
Journal of Systems and Software
Exploring XML web collections with DescribeX
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Constructing and exploring composite items
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
Web services discovery and rank: An information retrieval approach
Future Generation Computer Systems
Querying Wikipedia documents and relationships
Procceedings of the 13th International Workshop on the Web and Databases
XML schema and data summarization
ICAISC'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Artifical intelligence and soft computing: Part II
Improving the usability of standard schemas
Information Systems
A novel keyword search paradigm in relational databases: Object summaries
Data & Knowledge Engineering
A method for filtering large conceptual schemas
ER'10 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Exploring schema repositories with schemr
ACM SIGMOD Record
On computing the importance of associations in large conceptual schemas
Conceptual Modelling and Its Theoretical Foundations
MTCProv: a practical provenance query framework for many-task scientific computing
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Aligning freebase with the YAGO ontology
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
OptiqueVQS: towards an ontology-based visual query system for big data
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
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Real database systems can often be very complex. A person wishing to access data from an unfamiliar database has the daunting task of understanding its schema before being able to pose a correct query against it. A schema summary can be of great help, providing a succinct overview of the entire schema, and making it possible to explore in depth only the relevant schema components.In this paper we formally define a schema summary and two desirable properties (in addition to minimizing size) of a summary: presenting important schema elements and achieving broad information coverage. We develop algorithms that allow us to automatically generate schema summaries based on these two goals. We further develop an objective metric for assessing the quality of a schema summary using query information. Experimental evaluation using this metric demonstrates that the summaries produced by our algorithms can significantly reduce the amount of user effort required to formulate a query through schema exploration.