Composition of Mappings Given by Embedded Dependencies

Summary: Gives algorithms and sufficient conditions for composing mappings specified by embedded, full, or Skolemized SO dependencies (beyond source→target). Shows limits: full deps not closed, non‑source→target SO deps fail closure under restricted composition, and deciding expressibility is undecidable. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1350
Venue: PODS
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 0.00010592592
Overall Rank: 1,491 | 89.78%
DOI: 10.1145/1065167.1065189

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Authors

1. Alan Nash (Microsoft; University of California San Diego)
2. Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft)
3. Sergey Melnik (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{nash_pods05,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '05},
        title = {{Composition of Mappings Given by Embedded Dependencies}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1065167.1065189},
        doi = {10.1145/1065167.1065189},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Nash, Alan and Bernstein, Philip A. and Melnik, Sergey},
        year = {2005}
}

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506	Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2005	PODS	0.0001728171
762	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014231163
917	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013224381
1,194	Semantic Adaptation of Schema Mappings when Schemas Evolve	2005	VLDB	0.00011730556
1,770	Supporting Executable Mappings in Model Management	2005	SIGMOD	9.7967596e-05
2,038	Graceful Database Schema Evolution: the PRISM Workbench	2008	VLDB	9.2727673e-05
2,339	Quasi-inverses of Schema Mappings	2007	PODS	8.7249825e-05
2,352	Implementing Mapping Composition	2006	VLDB	8.7086189e-05
2,464	Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases	2007	SIGMOD	8.5480977e-05
2,785	Nested Mappings: Schema Mapping Reloaded	2006	VLDB	8.1236628e-05
3,485	The Complexity of Data Exchange	2006	PODS	7.3703451e-05
4,377	Data Exchange and Schema Mappings in Open and Closed Worlds	2008	PODS	6.7358004e-05
4,608	Towards a Theory of Schema-Mapping Optimization	2008	PODS	6.6082619e-05
4,768	Value Invention in Data Exchange	2013	SIGMOD	6.5171839e-05
5,239	Interactive Schema Translation with Instance-Level Mappings	2005	VLDB	6.3025572e-05
5,624	Answering Aggregate Queries in Data Exchange	2008	PODS	6.145135e-05
5,886	Reverse Data Exchange: Coping with Nulls	2009	PODS	6.0503367e-05
6,104	MapMerge: Correlating Independent Schema Mappings	2010	VLDB	5.9754714e-05
6,130	Inverting Schema Mappings: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice	2009	VLDB	5.9665863e-05
7,859	Foundations of Schema Mapping Management	2010	PODS	5.5303517e-05
8,348	Reflections on Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2018	PODS	5.4469775e-05
8,417	XML Schema Mappings	2009	PODS	5.4288691e-05
11,869	Rewriting of Plain SO Tgds into Nested Tgds	2019	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,099	Recovering Exchanged Data	2015	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
22	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00056204792
183	Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems	2003	CIDR	0.00026283359
685	Composing Schema Mappings: Second-Order Dependencies to the Rescue	2004	PODS	0.00014979915
788	Composing Mappings Among Data Sources	2003	VLDB	0.00014031294
879	Constraint-Based XML Query Rewriting for Data Integration	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013456577
1,180	Towards a Sound View Integration Methodology	1983	PODS	0.00011798223

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