UMA ABORDAGEM BASEADA NA ENGENHARIA DIRIGIDA POR MODELOS PARA SUPORTAR MERGING DE BASE DE DADOS HETEROGÊNEAS

Abstract

Model Driven Engineering (MDE) aims to make face to the development, maintenance and evolution of complex software systems, focusing in models and model transformations. This approach can be applied in other domains such as database schema integration. In this research work, we propose a framework to integrate database schema in the MDE context. Metamodels for defining database model, database model matching, database model merging, and integrated database model are proposed in order to support our framework. An algorithm for database model matching and an algorithm for database model merging are presented. We present also, a prototype that extends the MT4MDE and SAMT4MDE tools in order to demonstrate the implementation of our proposed framework, metodology, and algorithms. An illustrative example helps to understand our proposed framework.