Data Model Integration Using The Structural Model

Summary: Proposes view-based data model integration via the structural model (BCNF), merging views into a global schema with implicit constraints. Uses type classifications and connections to encode existence dependencies, enabling integration of differently represented two-entity relationships. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2175
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1979
Pagerank: 8.2312717e-05
Overall Rank: 2,704 | 81.45%
DOI: 10.1145/582095.582127

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ramez El-Masri (Stanford University)
2. Gio Wiederhold (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{elmasri_sigmod79,
        title = {{DATA MODEL INTEGRATION USING THE STRUCTURAL MODEL}},
        author = {El-Masri, Ramez and Wiederhold, Gio},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '79},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582095.582127},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582095.582127},
        year = {1979}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
979	Algorithms for Translating View Updates to Database Updates for Views Involving Selections, Projections, and Joins	1985	PODS	0.00012850156
1,766	A Methodology for View Integration in Logical Database Design	1982	VLDB	9.8068514e-05
3,006	A Formal View Integration Method	1986	SIGMOD	7.8585435e-05
5,614	Relationship Merging in Schema Integration	1984	VLDB	6.15003e-05
12,894	Panel: Is Generic Metadata Management Feasible?	2000	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
589	On The Semantics Of The Relational Data Model	1975	SIGMOD	0.00016066932
824	The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00013791986
5,424	View Representation in Logical Database Design	1978	SIGMOD	6.2233246e-05

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