GeRoMeSuite

Overview

As a framework, GeRoMeSuite provides an environment to simplify the implementation of model management operators. It is based on the generic role based metamodel GeRoMe , which represents models from different modeling languages (such as XML Schema, OWL, SQL) in a generic way. Thereby, the management of models in a polymorphic fashion is enabled, i.e. the same operator implementations are used regardless of the original modeling language of the schemas. In addition to providing a framework for model management, GeRoMeSuite implements several fundamental operators such as Match, Merge, and Compose.

The system contains a workspace in which all models and mappings are managed. In doing so, the objects to be manipulated are accessible to all operator implementations in a uniform way. Currently, it is possible to import SQL, XML Schema and OWL models. The mappings supported are simple morphisms, structured intensional mappings that are used for schema integration, and executable mappings in the form of second order tuple generating dependencies that can be composed and executed.

Webcast

You can download the following webcast to learn more about GeRoMeSuite: Executable Mappings and Mapping Composition

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Windows XP (start with GeRoMeSuite.bat) - last update: July 3rd, 2009

Information for the PDMS Prototype

• The examples mentioned in the description of the PDMS prototype are described in more detail here.
• The PDMS functionality is not yet included in the download version of GeRoMeSuite.

Publications

2011

• Xiang Li, Christoph Quix, David Kensche, Sandra Geisler, Lisong Guo

  Automatic Mediated Schema Generation Through Reasoning Over Data Dependencies

  Published in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2011, April 11-16, 2011, Hannover, Germany.

• Christoph Quix, Pratanu Roy, David Kensche

  Automatic Selection of Background Knowledge for Ontology Matching

  Published in 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management (SWIM 2011, in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD 2011), June 12, 2011, Athens, Greece

2010

• Christoph Quix, Marko Pascan, Pratanu Roy, David Kensche

  Semantic Matching of Ontologies

  Published in Fifth International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2010), Shanghai, China, 2010

• Christoph Quix, Avigdor Gal, Tomer Sagi, David Kensche

  An integrated matching system: GeRoMeSuite and SMB - Results for OAEI 2010

  Published in Fifth International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2010), Shanghai, China, 2010

• David Kensche

  Generic Modeling and Mapping Languages for Model Management

• Xiang Li

  Towards a Unified Framework for Schema Merging

  Published in VLDB 2010 PhD Workshop. Singapore, September 13-17, 2010.

• Xiang Li, Christoph Quix, David Kensche, Sandra Geisler

  Automatic Schema Merging Using Mapping Constraints Among Incomplete Sources

  Published in Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM'10), October 26-30, 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada.

• A. Schmeink, Sandra Geisler, A. Brauers, Christoph Quix

  A Method and Module for Linking Data of a Data Source to a Target Database

  Published in Patent Application, No. PCT/IB2009/055537

• David Kensche, Christoph Quix, Xiang Li, Sandra Geisler

  Solving ORM by MAGIC: MApping GeneratIon and Composition

  Published in Alan Dearle, Roberto Zicari (Eds.): Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Objects and Databases (ICOODB), Frankfurt/Main, Germany, September 28-30, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 6348, Springer, 2010.

2009

• Christoph Quix

  Meta Data Repository

  Published in M. Tamer Özsu, Ling Liu (eds.): Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, 2009.

• Christoph Quix

  Model Management

  Published in M. Tamer Özsu, Ling Liu (eds.): Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, 2009.

• Christoph Quix, Sandra Geisler, David Kensche, Xiang Li

  Results of GeRoMeSuite for OAEI 2009

  Published in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009), Collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2009) Chantilly, USA, October 25, 2009.

• Christoph Quix

  Metadatabase Design for Data Warehouses

  Published in In M.A. Jeusfeld, M. Jarke, J. Mylopoulos (eds.): Metamodeling for Method Engineering, MIT Press 2009, pp. 329-355

• David Kensche, Christoph Quix, Xiang Li, Yong Li, Matthias Jarke

  Generic Schema Mappings for Composition and Query Answering

  Published in Data & Knowledge Engineering, volume 68, issue 7, pp. 599-621, 2009

2007

• David Kensche, Christoph Quix, Xiang Li, Yong Li

  GeRoMeSuite: A System for Holistic Generic Model Management

  Published in In Proceedings of 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'07), pp. 1322-1325, Vienna, 2007