Proceedings of the 28th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences- 1995 An N-ary View Integration Method Using Conceptual Dependencies

The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodol-ogy that can integrate n database views simultaneously. The methodology consists of transforming a database view into an intermediate representation, based on the Conceptual Dependency theory. The conceptual rep-resentations corresponding to the views are then com-bined to form a “global ” representation, which is sub-sequently converted back to a data model that repre-sents the global, integrated schema. Our methodology makes use of the semantic content of a database view in the integration process, unlike other view integration methodologies proposed in the literature. We show, by examples, how this approach can eliminate multiple re-structuring of constituent views in the integration pro-cess.