Structured Development of Problem Solving Methods
Problem solving methods (PSMs) describe the reasoning components of knowledge-based systems as patterns of behavior that can be reused...
An Evaluation of Vertical Class Partitioning for Query Processing in Object-Oriented Databases
Vertical partitioning is a design technique for reducing the number of disk accesses to execute a given set of...
Scheduling Transactions with Temporal Constraints: Exploiting Data Semantics
In this paper, issues involved in the design of a real-time database which maintains data temporal consistency are discussed....
View Integration: A Step Forward in Solving Structural Conflicts
Thanks to the development of the federated systems approach on the one hand and the emphasis on user involvement...
Shape Sensitive Geometric Monitoring
An important problem in distributed, dynamic databases is to continuously monitor the value of a function defined on the...
OVID: Design and Implementation of a Video-Object Database System
This paper describes a videoobject data model and the design and implementation of our pmtotype videoobject database system named...
Object-Oriented Query Languages: The Notion and the Issues
Query languages are an important component of any data management system. Therefore, recent object-oriented DBMS’s provide (or plan to...
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...
