“…Creating and maintaining the global schema, which requires the use of database integration techniques, is a critical issue in multidatabase systems. A variety of approaches to schema integration have been proposed; e.g., [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12]. The main schema integration problem is associated with combining diverse schemas of the different databases into a coherent global view by reconciling any structure or semantics conflicts between the local component databases [7].…”