SERF: ODMG-Based Generic Re-structuring Facility

Summary: ODMG-based SERF provides a generic, user-defined restructuring facility beyond fixed-schema evolution for complex transformations. It offers reusable SERF Templates, a semantic optimizer for consistency, and cross-domain applicability (e.g., web restructuring). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3219
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,907 | 11.45%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304579

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Authors

1. E.A. Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
2. K. Claypool (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
3. M. Li (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
4. L. Chen (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
5. X. Zhang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
6. C. Natarajan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
7. J. Jin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
8. S. De Lima (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
9. S. Weiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rundensteiner_sigmod99,
        title = {{SERF: ODMG-Based Generic Re-structuring Facility}},
        author = {Rundensteiner, E.A. and Claypool, K. and Li, M. and Chen, L. and Zhang, X. and Natarajan, C. and Jin, J. and De Lima, S. and Weiner, S.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304579},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304579},
        year = {1999}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
599	Semantics and Implementation of Schema Evolution in Object-Oriented Databases	1987	SIGMOD	0.00015910762

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