Extensional Issues in Schema Integration
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چکیده
To form a Cooperative Information System in which several preexisting information systems cooperate by means of database interoperability, a methodology for database schema integration is needed. Extensional issues should be taken into account in such a methodology. We show how objects in different databases that represent the same real world object may be correlated through an object identification function (oif), and collapsed in external classes, when there are no dependencies between the component databases. We also extend our methodology to deal with those cases in which, in addition to this oif, existence interdependencies are to be specified and enforced. The powerful abstractions of our BLOOM model are used in both cases.
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