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Mapping from a Conceptual Schema to a Target Internal Schema

1 Department of Computation, University Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK, 2 Departamento de Ciencia da Computacao, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
This paper describes the mapping from a NIAM schema into the ACS, a formalism which has been advanced as a candidate for an internal representation of a conceptual schema. Aspects of NIAM and ACS are described briefly, and an application of the mapping algorithm between NIAM and ACS is illustrated with an example.
* Present address: Department of Computation, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD.
Present address: Departamento de Ciencia da Computaç
ao, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil.
¶ School of Computing Studies and Accountancy, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ