Developing an Object-Oriented Video Database System with Spatio-Temporal Reasoning Capabilities
Video data management (VDM) is fast becoming one of seminar topics in multimedia information systems. In VDM systems, there...
Entity Evolution in IsA Hierarchies
In a conceptual schema that includes specializations and generalizations, and that allows multiple classification, an entity may be, at...
Temporal ER Modeling with Description Logics
Recent efforts in the Conceptual Modelling community have been devoted to properly capturing time-varying information. Various temporally enhanced Entity-Relationship...
E/R Based Scenario Modeling for Rapid Prototyping of Web Information Services
In the design of information services for the web, developing navigation structure is one of the most crucial and...
Models for Superimposed Information
The ubiquitous World Wide Web presents a simple interface for a vast array of heterogeneous information. We see the...
Specification and Implementation of Temporal Databases in a Bitemporal Event Calculus
In this paper we show how temporal databases can be specified and implemented using the bitemporal event calculus, an...
Formalizing the Specification of Web Applications
As the size of Web applications grows, it becomes clear that we need better tools to deal with their...
Schema Versioning for Archives in Database Systems
Extremely large and ever growing databases lead to severe problems in storage, database administration, and performance. The integration of...
“Modeling-by-Patterns” of Web Applications
“A pattern ... describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the...
Modeling Cyclic Change
Database support of time-varying phenomena typically assumes that entities change in a linear fashion. Many phenomena, however, change cyclically...
