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: 0.00010322417
Overall Rank: 1,528 | 89.76%
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	0.00055201845
817	Composing Mappings Among Data Sources	2003	VLDB	0.00013671477
1,339	Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System	1998	SIGMOD	0.0001096441
1,667	On the Decidability of Query Containment under Constraints	1998	PODS	9.922321e-05
1,736	Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures	1998	SIGMOD	9.7450722e-05
8,136	The Nimble Integration Engine	2001	SIGMOD	5.3739121e-05
10,785	SQL-Exchange: Transforming SQL Queries Across Domains	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,101	Interoperability in Healthcare: A Primer and New Frontiers	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,138	Genomics Algebra: A New, Integrating Data Model, Language, and Tool for Processing and Querying Genomic Information	2003	CIDR	4.9605343e-05
13,223	The Challenge of Process Data Warehousing	2000	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,225	Approximate Query Translation Across Heterogeneous Information Sources	2000	VLDB	4.9605343e-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	0.00046445099
62	Maintaining Views Incrementally	1993	SIGMOD	0.00038944207
72	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00037421163
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00031526277
136	Testing Containment of Conjunctive Queries Under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies (Extended Abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00029636761
170	Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems	1996	PODS	0.0002707332
188	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00025858501
246	Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance	1991	VLDB	0.00023146423
368	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00019850502
388	Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates	1995	SIGMOD	0.0001928135
400	View Maintenance in a Warehousing Environment	1995	SIGMOD	0.00019089369
416	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018613776
428	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018419906
437	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00018259668
720	PROCEDURAL AND DECLARATIVE DATABASE UPDATE LANGUAGES (Extended Abstract)	1988	PODS	0.0001447659
746	Materialized View Maintenance and Integrity Constraint Checking: Trading Space for Time	1996	SIGMOD	0.0001426147
1,004	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012557552
1,057	Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors	1996	PODS	0.00012235875
1,150	Algorithms for Deferred View Maintenance	1996	SIGMOD	0.00011766641
1,152	Implementing Recoverable Requests Using Queues	1990	SIGMOD	0.00011765475
1,167	Objects and Views	1991	SIGMOD	0.00011696774
1,425	SIMS: Retrieving and Integrating Information From Multiple Sources	1993	SIGMOD	0.00010694075
1,599	The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation	1993	VLDB	0.0001009539
1,752	Split-Transactions for Open-Ended Activities	1988	VLDB	9.7124696e-05
1,971	Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus	1992	PODS	9.2747983e-05
2,149	A Transactional Model for Long-Running Activities	1991	VLDB	8.957504e-05
2,159	Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data	1996	VLDB	8.9259899e-05
2,394	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity with Production Rules and Persistent Queues	1993	VLDB	8.5155561e-05
2,569	ACTA: A Framework for Specifying and Reasoning about Transaction Structure and Behavior	1990	SIGMOD	8.2614964e-05
2,978	A Framework for Supporting Data Integration Using the Materialized and Virtual Approaches	1996	SIGMOD	7.7768335e-05
3,640	Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Mediated Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	SIGMOD	7.1242859e-05
3,994	A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources	1995	VLDB	6.8544209e-05
4,265	Template-Based Wrappers in the TSIMMIS System	1997	SIGMOD	6.6793969e-05
4,622	CLASSIC: A Structural Data Model for Objects	1989	SIGMOD	6.481884e-05
5,071	Using Flexible Transactions to Support Multi-system Telecommunication Applications	1992	VLDB	6.2755697e-05
5,559	Using Witness Generators to Support Bi-directional Update Between Object-Based Databases	1995	PODS	6.0696945e-05
5,758	Conjunctive Query Equivalence of Keyed Relational Schemas (Extended Abstract)	1997	PODS	5.9861388e-05
6,037	Tables As a Paradigm for Querying and Restructuring	1996	PODS	5.8904709e-05
7,948	Reflective programming in the relational algebra (extended abstract)	1993	PODS	5.4045599e-05
9,896	Task Scheduling Using Intertask Dependencies in Carnot	1993	SIGMOD	5.1000264e-05
14,573	Structures for Manipulating Proposed Updates In Object-Oriented Databases	1996	SIGMOD	-

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