A comparative analysis of methodologies for database schema integration
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Communications of the ACM
Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
Software requirements: objects, functions, and states
Software requirements: objects, functions, and states
Managing semantic heterogeneity in databases: a theoretical prospective
PODS '97 Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions
VLDB '96 Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Lessons Learned from a Trial Application of Requirements Modeling Using Statecharts
ICRE '96 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE '96)
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Companies with complex, safety-critical products --- aircraft, power plants, automobiles, satellites, and spacecraft --- increasingly use computer-based models to design, analyze, and simulate the product. While model-based development has numerous, well documented benefits, the current practice has spawned significant new problems: large quantities of model data are locked in tool-proprietary representations, preventing efficient processes, limiting the choice of best-of-breed tools, and engendering inconsistent data. The paper describes an applied research prototype whose goal is to demonstrate effective data sharing between processes and tools used in designing commercial airplane systems. The prototype makes use of selected data interchange standards and repository technology to interchange data across two engineering specialty areas --- functional analysis and reliability analysis. The underlying issue described in this paper is the resolution of semantic heterogeneity of multi-disciplinary systems design data.