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P.A. Bernstein, S. Melnik: Meta Data Management, ICDE'04 Boston
An Approach to ModelGen
[Atzeni & Torlone, EDBT '96]
lMeta-models are made of patterns
(a)
Object has
sub-object
(b)
Aggregation
has attributes
(c)
Aggregation
has key
lDefine pattern transformations as rules
ØFor XSD®SQL,
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lTo translate Ms into meta-modelt (MMt),
ØApply rules that replace patterns in MS that are
not in MMt by patterns that are in MMt