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: h342d4d0f179a452a
Venue: PODS
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 0.00010355628
Overall Rank: 1,525 | 89.75%
DOI: 10.1145/263661.263668

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Richard Hull (AT&T)

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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24	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00055043581
813	Composing Mappings Among Data Sources	2003	VLDB	0.00013722762
1,330	Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System	1998	SIGMOD	0.00010999761
1,660	On the Decidability of Query Containment under Constraints	1998	PODS	9.9592164e-05
1,728	Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures	1998	SIGMOD	9.7779564e-05
8,111	The Nimble Integration Engine	2001	SIGMOD	5.3942942e-05
10,714	SQL-Exchange: Transforming SQL Queries Across Domains	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,031	Interoperability in Healthcare: A Primer and New Frontiers	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,091	Genomics Algebra: A New, Integrating Data Model, Language, and Tool for Processing and Querying Genomic Information	2003	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
13,176	The Challenge of Process Data Warehousing	2000	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,178	Approximate Query Translation Across Heterogeneous Information Sources	2000	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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	0.00046602544
62	Maintaining Views Incrementally	1993	SIGMOD	0.00039045511
72	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00037549176
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00031630695
136	Testing Containment of Conjunctive Queries Under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies (Extended Abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00029740459
172	Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems	1996	PODS	0.00026835705
186	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00025951043
246	Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance	1991	VLDB	0.00023212582
366	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00019923978
388	Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates	1995	SIGMOD	0.00019350381
398	View Maintenance in a Warehousing Environment	1995	SIGMOD	0.00019152162
413	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018681401
425	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018486061
434	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00018328281
718	PROCEDURAL AND DECLARATIVE DATABASE UPDATE LANGUAGES (Extended Abstract)	1988	PODS	0.00014530776
744	Materialized View Maintenance and Integrity Constraint Checking: Trading Space for Time	1996	SIGMOD	0.00014309622
1,003	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012597028
1,052	Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors	1996	PODS	0.00012275281
1,149	Implementing Recoverable Requests Using Queues	1990	SIGMOD	0.00011809579
1,150	Algorithms for Deferred View Maintenance	1996	SIGMOD	0.00011809311
1,165	Objects and Views	1991	SIGMOD	0.00011740339
1,417	SIMS: Retrieving and Integrating Information From Multiple Sources	1993	SIGMOD	0.00010731699
1,595	The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation	1993	VLDB	0.00010131081
1,738	Split-Transactions for Open-Ended Activities	1988	VLDB	9.7487946e-05
1,961	Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus	1992	PODS	9.3092942e-05
2,134	A Transactional Model for Long-Running Activities	1991	VLDB	8.9913304e-05
2,147	Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data	1996	VLDB	8.9576491e-05
2,380	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity with Production Rules and Persistent Queues	1993	VLDB	8.5469443e-05
2,564	ACTA: A Framework for Specifying and Reasoning about Transaction Structure and Behavior	1990	SIGMOD	8.2927351e-05
2,962	A Framework for Supporting Data Integration Using the Materialized and Virtual Approaches	1996	SIGMOD	7.8061777e-05
3,631	Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Mediated Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	SIGMOD	7.1495656e-05
3,981	A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources	1995	VLDB	6.8772513e-05
4,247	Template-Based Wrappers in the TSIMMIS System	1997	SIGMOD	6.7046463e-05
4,603	CLASSIC: A Structural Data Model for Objects	1989	SIGMOD	6.506144e-05
5,047	Using Flexible Transactions to Support Multi-system Telecommunication Applications	1992	VLDB	6.2992912e-05
5,539	Using Witness Generators to Support Bi-directional Update Between Object-Based Databases	1995	PODS	6.0909185e-05
5,747	Conjunctive Query Equivalence of Keyed Relational Schemas (Extended Abstract)	1997	PODS	6.0083342e-05
6,022	Tables As a Paradigm for Querying and Restructuring	1996	PODS	5.9127206e-05
7,929	Reflective programming in the relational algebra (extended abstract)	1993	PODS	5.4248505e-05
9,854	Task Scheduling Using Intertask Dependencies in Carnot	1993	SIGMOD	5.1192894e-05
14,528	Structures for Manipulating Proposed Updates In Object-Oriented Databases	1996	SIGMOD	-

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