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This paper addresses the problem of propagating local structural schema changes to an already acquired integrated schema of a federation. Our approach is to regard this problem from a schema integration point of view. The main contribution is the development of a framework for performing evolution of an integrated schema without information loss and avoiding as much as possible re-integration steps.
This work was developed while at IPSI-GMD, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany.
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Motz, R. (1998). Propagation of structural modifications to an integrated schema. In: Litwin, W., Morzy, T., Vossen, G. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1475. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057730
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