Algorithms for structural schema integration
James Geller, Ashish Mehta, Yehoshua Perl, Erich J. Neuhold, Amit Sheth · 2003
Current view and schema integration methodologies are driven by semantic considerations, and allow integration of objects only if that is valid from semantic and structural viewpoints. The authors introduce a new integration technique called structural integration. It permits integration of objects that have structural similarities, even if they differ semantically. This technique uses the object-oriented dual model which separates the representation of structure and semantics. The authors introduce algorithms for structural integration. They apply these algorithms to integrate two views of a large university database schema which had significant structural similarities but differed semantically.>