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Schema equivalence in heterogeneous systems: Bridging theory and practice

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R. J. Miller has been partially supported by NSF Grant IRI-9157368.

Y. Ioannidis has been partially supported by NSF Grants IRI-9113736 and IRI-9157368 (PYI Award) and by grants from DEC, IBM, HP, and AT&T.

R. Ramakrishnan has been partially supported by a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering, by an NSF PYI Award and NSF grant IRI-9011563, and by grants from DEC, Tandem, and Xerox.

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Miller, R.J., Ioannidis, Y.E., Ramakrishnan, R. (1994). Schema equivalence in heterogeneous systems: Bridging theory and practice. In: Jarke, M., Bubenko, J., Jeffery, K. (eds) Advances in Database Technology — EDBT '94. EDBT 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 779. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57818-8_42

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