Re: Semantic Data Dissonance

Dan,

Thanks for pointing these papers out, that will definitely help.

guntermann_at_verizon.net (Dan) wrote in message news:<3e68f717.0311102058.627f135f_at_posting.google.com>...
> a_thesis_at_yahoo.com (researcher) wrote in message news:<31acb67d.0311101031.3ce24152_at_posting.google.com>...
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am currently pursing research in databases on a subject called data
> > dissonance. Typically data dissonance is of two types: Semantic and
> > Structural. Example of Semantic dissonance could be one application
> > may define an employee as current employees only whereas another
> > application define an employee as current or former employees. Example
> > of Structural dissonance could be one application's employee could be
> > another application's serf. I have searched a lot and haven't found
> > any white papers or articles that talk about this problem in detail.
> >
> > I would really appreciate any pointers or help, thanks in advance.
>
> a_thesis,
>
> Semantic data dissonance is quite the colorful term for heterogeneity,
> which has previously been categorized as either "semantic" or
> "structural". Hmmmmm.
>
> Just about any formal publication on heterogeneous databases,
> multi-databases, data integration, and heterogeneity itself might get
> you started in the right direction.
>
> To get you started, here are a few papers that are probably related:
>
> Harder, T. Sauter, G., & Thomas J. (1999) The Intrinsic problems of
> structural heterogeneity and an approach to their solution. The VLDB
> Journal (8): 25-43.
>
> Drew, R., King, R., McLeod, D. & et al. (1993) Report of the Workshop
> on Semantic Hetergeneity and interoperation in multidatabase systems.
> SIGMOD Record 22(3): 47-56
>
> Sheth A. & Larson J. (1990) Federated Database Systems for Managing
> Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases. Database
> Computing Survey 22(3): 183-236.
>
> - Dan
Received on Tue Nov 11 2003 - 13:51:35 CET