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Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective

Summary: Surveys theoretical approaches to semantic heterogeneity—architectures and schema information-capacity comparisons for relating disparate databases. Treats read-only (virtual/materialized) and read-write integrated views, workflows, and metadata methods for discovering and managing schema relationships. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
1101
Venue
PODS
Year
1997
Pagerank
0.00010225236
Overall Rank
1,609 | 88.97%
DOI
10.1145/263661.263668

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hull_pods97,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '97},
        title = {{Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/263661.263668},
        doi = {10.1145/263661.263668},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Hull, Richard},
        year = {1997}
}

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1,630 On the Decidability of Query Containment under Constraints 1998 PODS 0.00010180625
1,708 Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures 1998 SIGMOD 9.958846e-05
7,943 The Nimble Integration Engine 2001 SIGMOD 5.5181056e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 41 of 41 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
39 Efficiently Updating Materialized Views 1986 SIGMOD 0.00047309646
61 Maintaining Views Incrementally 1993 SIGMOD 0.00039026867
69 Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract) 1995 PODS 0.00038090878
117 Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions 1996 VLDB 0.00032192665
134 Testing Containment of Conjunctive Queries Under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies (Extended Abstract) 1982 PODS 0.00030343737
170 Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems 1996 PODS 0.00027376361
182 Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases 1991 VLDB 0.00026367971
258 Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance 1991 VLDB 0.00023131981
355 Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive 1989 SIGMOD 0.00020351749
375 Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates 1995 SIGMOD 0.00019681204
391 View Maintenance in a Warehousing Environment 1995 SIGMOD 0.00019370653
403 Querying Object-Oriented Databases 1992 SIGMOD 0.0001907249
413 Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata 1984 PODS 0.00018894294
421 The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract) 1982 PODS 0.00018742219
702 PROCEDURAL AND DECLARATIVE DATABASE UPDATE LANGUAGES (Extended Abstract) 1988 PODS 0.00014855299
736 Materialized View Maintenance and Integrity Constraint Checking: Trading Space for Time 1996 SIGMOD 0.00014508563
971 ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers 1990 VLDB 0.00012875736
1,031 Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors 1996 PODS 0.0001253927
1,127 Implementing Recoverable Requests Using Queues 1990 SIGMOD 0.00012070177
1,133 Algorithms for Deferred View Maintenance 1996 SIGMOD 0.00012039326
1,145 Objects and Views 1991 SIGMOD 0.00011987662
1,388 SIMS: Retrieving and Integrating Information From Multiple Sources 1993 SIGMOD 0.0001094675
1,566 The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation 1993 VLDB 0.00010346227
1,705 Split-Transactions for Open-Ended Activities 1988 VLDB 9.9629987e-05
1,928 Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus 1992 PODS 9.4692029e-05
2,089 A Transactional Model for Long-Running Activities 1991 VLDB 9.1910671e-05
2,118 Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data 1996 VLDB 9.1419103e-05
2,334 Managing Semantic Heterogeneity with Production Rules and Persistent Queues 1993 VLDB 8.7336402e-05
2,535 ACTA: A Framework for Specifying and Reasoning about Transaction Structure and Behavior 1990 SIGMOD 8.4560885e-05
2,901 A Framework for Supporting Data Integration Using the Materialized and Virtual Approaches 1996 SIGMOD 7.9774387e-05
3,607 Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Mediated Views (Extended Abstract) 1995 SIGMOD 7.262291e-05
3,915 A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources 1995 VLDB 7.0193727e-05
4,172 Template-Based Wrappers in the TSIMMIS System 1997 SIGMOD 6.8535493e-05
4,540 CLASSIC: A Structural Data Model for Objects 1989 SIGMOD 6.6401432e-05
4,931 Using Flexible Transactions to Support Multi-system Telecommunication Applications 1992 VLDB 6.4389004e-05
5,413 Using Witness Generators to Support Bi-directional Update Between Object-Based Databases 1995 PODS 6.2269846e-05
5,643 Conjunctive Query Equivalence of Keyed Relational Schemas (Extended Abstract) 1997 PODS 6.1379759e-05
5,916 Tables As a Paradigm for Querying and Restructuring 1996 PODS 6.0433046e-05
7,793 Reflective programming in the relational algebra (extended abstract) 1993 PODS 5.5430288e-05
9,722 Task Scheduling Using Intertask Dependencies in Carnot 1993 SIGMOD 5.2318148e-05
14,217 Structures for Manipulating Proposed Updates In Object-Oriented Databases 1996 SIGMOD -
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