The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/MillerIR93,
  author    = {Ren{\'e}e J. Miller and
               Yannis E. Ioannidis and
               Raghu Ramakrishnan},
  editor    = {Rakesh Agrawal and
               Se{\'a}n Baker and
               David A. Bell},
  title     = {The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation},
  booktitle = {19th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August
               24-27, 1993, Dublin, Ireland, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1993},
  isbn      = {1-55860-152-X},
  pages     = {120-133},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/MillerIR93.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/93},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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