CERC Technical Report Series

Technical Memoranda

CERC-TR-RN-92-027
A RELATIONAL DATABASE GATEWAY FOR AN INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM

Xi Li

August, 1992

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This effort has been sponsored by Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under contract No. MDA 972-91-J-1022 for DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering (DICE).

Concurrent Engineering Research Center
West Virginia University
Drawer 2000, Morgantown WV 26505

A Relational Database Gateway

For An Information Sharing System

Problem Report

Submitted to the College of Arts and Science
of
West Virginia University
In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements
for
The Degree of Master of Science in Computer Science

by

Xi Li
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia
August, 1992

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Acknowledgment

I would like to thank the members of my graduate committee, Dr. Raghu Karinthi, Chair, Dr. V. Jagannathan and Dr. Sumitra Reddy for their guidance, advice and encouragement. A special thanks is extended to Mr. Ravi S. Raman who guided me in this project, reviewed the problem report and provided many comments. Many thanks to the ISS people who generously shared their knowledge and expertise with me. I want to thank Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) for providing the necessary support to conduct this study. Finally, I want to thank all the people who supported me in any way while I was conducting this project. I wish to thank the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA grant numbered MDA-972-91-J-1022) for funding this project as part of the DICE program.