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...
System-Guided View Integration for Object-Oriented Databases
View integration refers to the activity of merging the locally developed user-oriented views or schemas for a given environment...
An Object-Oriented Database System Jasmine: Implementation, Application, and Extension
New applications such as engineering tasks require complex object modeling, integration of database and programming facilities, and extensibility. We...
Exact and Approximate Algorithms for the Index Selection Problem in Physical Database Design
The index selection problem (ISP) is an important optimization problem in the plhysical design of databases. The aim of...
Valid-Time Indeterminacy in Temporal Relational Databases: Semantics and Representations
Valid-time indeterminacy is “don’t know when” indeterminacy, coping with cases in which one does not exactly know when a...
Ontology-Based Service Representation and Selection
Selecting the right parties to interact with is a fundamental problem in open and dynamic environments. The problem is...
Converting a Fuzzy Data Model to an Object-Oriented Design for Managing GIS Data Files
A fuzzy entity relationship diagram (ERD) data model for managing information about sets of related data files was converted...
Constraint analysis: a design process for specifying operations on objects
A design process for an object-oriented database design environment, known as constraint analysis, is presented. Given the increased level...
Specifying and Enforcing Association Semantics via ORN in the Presence of Association Cycles
Object Relationship Notation (ORN) is a declarative scheme that allows a variety of common relationship types to be conveniently...
