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One of the problems facing federated database management systems is how to handle change among entities in the federation. Change can occur when a new site is added to the federation, a new set of security privileges is introduced, or one of the schemas has been modified. One powerful mechanism for constructing an adaptive federated architecture is metadata. Mowbray [MZ95] describes metadata as self-descriptive definition of services and information. In this article we present our ideas for modelling federation metadata in the LIOM project.
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Roantree, M., Hickey, P., Crilly, A., Cardiff, J., Murphy, J. (1996). Metadata modelling for healthcare applications in a federated database system. In: Spaniol, O., Linnhoff-Popien, C., Meyer, B. (eds) Trends in Distributed Systems CORBA and Beyond. TreDS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61842-2_27
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