Allocating Data and Operations to Nodes in Distributed Database Design
The allocation of data and operations to nodes in a computer communications network is a critical issue in distributed...
Naive semantics to support automated database design
Research devoted to developing knowledge-based tools for database design has demonstrated that it is possible to encode a great...
Coping with Events in Temporal Relational Databases
Event relations are used in many temporal relational database approaches to represent facts occurring at time instants. However, to...
Irregular Indeterminate Repeated Facts in Temporal Relational Databases
Time is pervasive of reality, and many relational database approaches have been developed to cope with it. In practical...
Ancestor Controlled Submodule inclusion in Design Databases
A paradigm is proposed for representing hierarchically specified design data in CAD database systems where there are to be...
A Survey of Languages for Specifying Dynamics: A Knowledge Engineering Perspective
During the last years, a number of formal specification languages for knowledge-based systems has been developed. Characteristics for knowledge-based...
The Role of Polymorphic Reuse Mechanisms in Schema Evolution in an Object-Oriented Database
A seamless approach to the incremental design and reuse of object-oriented methods and query specifications is presented. We argue...
Part-Whole Relationship Categories and Their Application in Object-Oriented Analysis
Part decomposition and, conversely, the construction of composite objects out of individual parts have long been recognized as ubiquitous...
A comparative study of various nested normal forms
As object-relational databases (ORDBs) become popular in the industry, it is important for database designers to produce database schemes...
Towards the Correctness and Consistency of Update Semantics in Semantic Database Schema
This paper discusses a paradigm and prototype system for the design-time expression, checking, and automatic implementation of the semantics...
