Integrating Heterogeneous Overlapping Databases Through Object-Oriented Transformations

Summary: Mediator-based integration of autonomous, overlapping databases via object-oriented views and overloaded queries; late-binding transforms OO-view queries into disjunctive subqueries. Consistency via validation subqueries, type-aware rewrites, and selective OID generation; experiments show speedups over naive strategies. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h2f063ec3cdf5d73a
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 5.8092399e-05
Overall Rank: 6,362 | 57.23%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Vanja Josifovski (Linköping University)
2. Tore Risch (Linköping University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{josifovski_vldb99,
        title = {{Integrating Heterogeneous Overlapping Databases Through Object-Oriented Transformations}},
        author = {Josifovski, Vanja and Risch, Tore},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        volume = {25},
        pages = {435--446},
        year = {1999}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,144	GeMBASE: A Geometric Mediator for Brain Analysis with Surface Ensembles	2002	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
16	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00059996338
173	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00026826959
13,300	Processing Object-Oriented Queries with Invertible Late Bound Functions	1995	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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