Title :
Schema Repository for Database Schema Evolution
Author :
Bounif, Hassina ; Pottinger, Rachel
Author_Institution :
EPFL, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol.
Abstract :
The paper presents a schema repository, an original repository containing different kinds of database schemas. The repository is part of a multidisciplinary approach for schema evolution called the predictive approach for database evolution. The schema repository has a dual role in the approach: (1) During the data-mining process, the repository identifies and analyzes trends on collected schemas belonging to the same domain. (2) The repository is used in the building of the requirements ontology - a domain ontology that contributes in the database design and its evolution. This paper presents both the design and a heuristic-based method to populate such a repository
Keywords :
data mining; database management systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); data mining; database schema evolution; predictive database evolution; requirements ontology; schema repository; Buildings; Costs; Databases; Enterprise resource planning; Humans; Information management; Information systems; Internet; Ontologies; Paper technology;
Conference_Titel :
Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2006. DEXA '06. 17th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Krakow
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2641-1
DOI :
10.1109/DEXA.2006.125
