A generic retrieval system design supporting interoperability

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Retrieval of information from a database is a basic and vital function that any system is expected to provide. With the growing complexity of information, and with the advent of distributed systems, it has become necessary to process any retrieval request coming from any system which is a part of the distributed environment. This calls for a generic retrieval system supporting interoperability which can formulate the request on the fly. Interoperability is the ability to interconnect software products irrespective of their suppliers and vintages, to provide access to corporate data by any authorized user, and to maintain that interconnection and access over changes in suppliers and vintages. This paper describes such a system which is generic in nature, and at the same time provides a mechanism which supports the mapping of the logical view to physical database implementation supporting interoperability.

论文关键词:OSCA architecture,interoperability,contracts,building blocks,view manager,SQL constructor,interface,SQL parser & translator,database accessor,output formatter

论文评审过程:Received 6 July 1992, Revised 5 March 1993, Available online 17 June 2003.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-4379(93)90021-R