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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
0.00010350748
Overall Rank
1,526 | 89.75%
DOI
10.1145/263661.263668

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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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1,729 Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures 1998 SIGMOD 9.7734376e-05
8,118 The Nimble Integration Engine 2001 SIGMOD 5.3917406e-05
10,724 SQL-Exchange: Transforming SQL Queries Across Domains 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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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 0.00046583225
62 Maintaining Views Incrementally 1993 SIGMOD 0.00039040346
72 Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract) 1995 PODS 0.0003753293
117 Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions 1996 VLDB 0.00031616101
136 Testing Containment of Conjunctive Queries Under Functional and Inclusion Dependencies (Extended Abstract) 1982 PODS 0.0002972645
172 Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems 1996 PODS 0.00026824625
186 Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases 1991 VLDB 0.00025938943
246 Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance 1991 VLDB 0.00023204593
366 Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive 1989 SIGMOD 0.00019914615
388 Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates 1995 SIGMOD 0.00019342096
398 View Maintenance in a Warehousing Environment 1995 SIGMOD 0.00019143434
414 Querying Object-Oriented Databases 1992 SIGMOD 0.00018672651
426 Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata 1984 PODS 0.00018477356
434 The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract) 1982 PODS 0.00018319684
719 PROCEDURAL AND DECLARATIVE DATABASE UPDATE LANGUAGES (Extended Abstract) 1988 PODS 0.0001452391
745 Materialized View Maintenance and Integrity Constraint Checking: Trading Space for Time 1996 SIGMOD 0.0001430357
1,003 ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers 1990 VLDB 0.00012591126
1,052 Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors 1996 PODS 0.00012269616
1,149 Algorithms for Deferred View Maintenance 1996 SIGMOD 0.00011804215
1,151 Implementing Recoverable Requests Using Queues 1990 SIGMOD 0.00011804156
1,165 Objects and Views 1991 SIGMOD 0.00011734796
1,418 SIMS: Retrieving and Integrating Information From Multiple Sources 1993 SIGMOD 0.00010726678
1,595 The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation 1993 VLDB 0.00010126332
1,740 Split-Transactions for Open-Ended Activities 1988 VLDB 9.7442978e-05
1,962 Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus 1992 PODS 9.3049399e-05
2,136 A Transactional Model for Long-Running Activities 1991 VLDB 8.9870806e-05
2,149 Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data 1996 VLDB 8.9534973e-05
2,382 Managing Semantic Heterogeneity with Production Rules and Persistent Queues 1993 VLDB 8.5429132e-05
2,564 ACTA: A Framework for Specifying and Reasoning about Transaction Structure and Behavior 1990 SIGMOD 8.2888101e-05
2,964 A Framework for Supporting Data Integration Using the Materialized and Virtual Approaches 1996 SIGMOD 7.8024977e-05
3,631 Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Mediated Views (Extended Abstract) 1995 SIGMOD 7.1463149e-05
3,982 A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources 1995 VLDB 6.8742381e-05
4,248 Template-Based Wrappers in the TSIMMIS System 1997 SIGMOD 6.7014728e-05
4,605 CLASSIC: A Structural Data Model for Objects 1989 SIGMOD 6.503082e-05
5,049 Using Flexible Transactions to Support Multi-system Telecommunication Applications 1992 VLDB 6.2963095e-05
5,541 Using Witness Generators to Support Bi-directional Update Between Object-Based Databases 1995 PODS 6.0880492e-05
5,747 Conjunctive Query Equivalence of Keyed Relational Schemas (Extended Abstract) 1997 PODS 6.005505e-05
6,022 Tables As a Paradigm for Querying and Restructuring 1996 PODS 5.9099244e-05
7,934 Reflective programming in the relational algebra (extended abstract) 1993 PODS 5.4222862e-05
9,861 Task Scheduling Using Intertask Dependencies in Carnot 1993 SIGMOD 5.1168663e-05
14,533 Structures for Manipulating Proposed Updates In Object-Oriented Databases 1996 SIGMOD -
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