Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures

Summary: Addresses schematic heterogeneity in federated and legacy data, where information migrates between schemas and metadata. Introduces a restricted class of higher-order views to reconcile schemas, enable schema browsing, and translate semi-structured/keyword queries with light-weight engine extensions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hca1832438fbf57b9
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 9.7734376e-05
Overall Rank: 1,729 | 88.39%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276322

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Renee J. Miller (Ohio State University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{miller_sigmod98,
        title = {{Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures}},
        author = {Miller, Renee J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276322},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276322},
        year = {1998}
}

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Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
95	Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System	2001	VLDB	0.00034367518
936	A Scalable Algorithm for Answering Queries Using Views	2000	VLDB	0.00012983552
1,056	Storage and Querying of E-Commerce Data	2001	VLDB	0.00012243086
1,959	iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas	2004	SIGMOD	9.3102615e-05
2,160	Open Data Integration	2018	VLDB	8.9373643e-05
3,961	On Efficiently Implementing SchemaSQL on a SQL Database System	1999	VLDB	6.8926339e-05
6,510	(Almost) Hands-Off Information Integration for the Life Sciences	2005	CIDR	5.7575609e-05
7,713	Data Exchange with Data-Metadata Translations	2008	VLDB	5.4700678e-05
9,301	Knowledge Translation	2020	VLDB	5.1978467e-05
9,837	Relational Data Mapping in MIQIS	2005	SIGMOD	5.1223525e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0023943337
72	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.0003753293
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00031616101
310	Optimization of Real Conjunctive Queries	1993	PODS	0.00021364898
414	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018672651
426	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018477356
567	Answering Queries with Aggregation Using Views	1996	VLDB	0.00016264813
577	The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence	1994	VLDB	0.00016111779
1,418	SIMS: Retrieving and Integrating Information From Multiple Sources	1993	SIGMOD	0.00010726678
1,526	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective	1997	PODS	0.00010350748
1,578	SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems	1996	VLDB	0.00010182593
1,595	The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation	1993	VLDB	0.00010126332
1,707	Language Features for Interoperability of Databases with Schematic Discrepancies	1991	SIGMOD	9.8252519e-05
1,962	Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus	1992	PODS	9.3049399e-05
7,934	Reflective programming in the relational algebra (extended abstract)	1993	PODS	5.4222862e-05

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