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Volume 20, Issue 2
1 February 1991
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Review Article| February 01 1991

Communications: DBMS Metaphor for Meta‐information Systems Available to Purchase

Z. Chen
Z. Chen
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE 68182–0243, USA
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7883
Print ISSN: 0368-492X
© MCB UP Limited
1991
Kybernetes (1991) 20 (2): 50–60.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005882

Conceptual integration of existing information systems provides an alternative way of approaching a kind of metasystem, namely, meta‐information systems. Since various external views can be generated from the same set of information systems for different information needs, a DBMS (database management systems) metaphor is a useful approach.

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Data Base Management, Information Systems
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