Adding Temporal Constraints to XML Schema
If past versions of XML documents are retained, what of the various integrity constraints defined in XML Schema on...
Formal Foundations for Object-Oriented Data Modeling
Axiomatic definition of the basic structure, called a class dictionary graph, is given, used by object-oriented designers and programmers...
Product Life-Cycle Metadata Modeling and Its Application with RDF
The whole product life cycle consists of three phases: Beginning of Life (BOL), Middle of Life (MOL), and End...
Object-oriented databases: definition and research directions
An object-oriented database is defined and justified on the basis of a small set of central object-oriented concepts. A...
A New Architecture for Integration of CORBA and OODB
Object-oriented database system (OODB) supports an object-oriented data model with the functionality of persistency and transaction semantics. In order...
A Data/Knowledge Paradigm for the Modeling and Design of Operations Support Systems
This paper develops the Smart Object paradigm and its instantiation, which provide a new conceptualization for the modeling, design,...
Toward Managing Uncertain Spatial Information for Situational Awareness Applications
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision...
Ontological Evaluation of Enterprise Systems Interoperability Using ebXML
Enterprise systems interoperability (ESI) is an important topic for business currently. This situation is evidenced, at least in part,...
PRISMA/DB: A Parallel, Main Memory Relationh DBMS
PRISWDB is a full-fledged parallel, main memory relational database management system the design of which is characterized by two...
Design and Performance Evaluation Considerations of a Multimedia Medical Database
Multimedia information management and communications systems for medical applications have been undergoing design and development for more than ten...
