The category concept: An extension to’the entity-relationship model
An enhanced version of the Entity-Relationship (ER) data model called the Entity-CategoryRelationship (ECR) data model is presented. The principal...
A persistent complex object database language
To support a number of emerging applications we propose a persistent complex object database language which is "'value" based....
Component development and construction for database design
Principles for database modeling were developed and intensively investigated in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are based...
A formal approach databases
Object-oriented database systems are the focus of current research and development efforts. Yet, there is no commonly accepted object...
Relational database Entity-Relationship design based on the model
The Entity-Relationship (E-R) model is often recommended for use m the database design process because its concepts are percewed...
An OODB Part-Whole model: Semantics, notation and implementation
The notion of a part-whole relationship plays an important role when modeling data in many advanced application domains. It...
An approach to authorization modeling in object-oriented database systems
Authorization is an important functionality that every data management system should provide. An authorization mechanism allows different access rights...
An analysis of multivalued and join dependencies based on the entity-relationship approach
In this paper, we show that multivalued dependencies and join dependencies are not very viable for certain cases of...
Grand tour of concepts for object-orientation from a database point of view
Over the last few years, object-orientation has gained more and more importance within several disciplines of computer science (e.g....
DICE: declarative integrity constraint embedding into the object database standard ODMG-93
In this paper we present a new approach for embedding integrity constraints into object-oriented database systems (OODBS), which can...
