Constructing Superviews

Summary: Formal schema-transformations for constructing a superview that unifies multiple databases while preserving physical independence. Provides mappings from superview queries to underlying databases with runtime constraint checks; describes an interactive tool to aid construction and query transformation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h381e161c047b3b6a
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1981
Pagerank: 0.00012163751
Overall Rank: 1,073 | 92.79%
DOI: 10.1145/582318.582327

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Amihai Motro (University of Pennsylvania)
2. Peter Buneman (University of Pennsylvania)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{motro_sigmod81,
        title = {{Constructing Superviews}},
        author = {Motro, Amihai and Buneman, Peter},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '81},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582318.582327},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582318.582327},
        year = {1981}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
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
1,003	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012597028
1,595	The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation	1993	VLDB	0.00010131081
1,707	Language Features for Interoperability of Databases with Schematic Discrepancies	1991	SIGMOD	9.8298117e-05
2,572	Multidatabase Update Issues	1988	SIGMOD	8.2832312e-05
3,692	Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases Using Neural Networks	1994	VLDB	7.093474e-05
8,145	An Approach to Object Sharing in Distributed Database Systems	1983	VLDB	5.3910062e-05
13,535	A Strategy for Decomposing Complex Queries in a Heterogeneous DDB	1984	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
16	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00059996338
847	The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00013507676

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