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Managing semantic heterogeneity in databases: a theoretical prospective

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Pages: 51 - 61

Year of Publication: 1997

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Richard Hull

Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ

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