Meta-Level Transformations in Systems Integration
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| Year of publication | 2002 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proc. of ADBIS 2002 |
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| Field | Computer hardware and software |
| Keywords | heterogeneous information systems; integration; interoperability; data modelling; graph representation |
| Description | The paper provides a brief overview of the HyperMeData language specifically designed to support data interchange among heterogeneous information systems, and pays attention to meta-level transformation descriptions. The language is sufficiently complex and powerful to catch both intra- and inter- data schema relationships (i.e., to describe both data schemas and data transformations), nonetheless, its routine use requires employing a set of meta-level transformation rules to handle typical schematic differences among semantically similar database objects. The classification of schematic heterogeneities in multidatabases is used as the basis for proposing inter-attribute correspondences (meta-level transformation rules) and the respective translations to HyperMeData descriptions of data transformations (transformation rules). |
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