Rewriting Rules to Permeate Complex Similarity and Fuzzy Queries within a Relational Database System
In recent years, the availability of complex data repositories (e.g., multimedia, genomic, semistructured databases) has paved the way to...
A General Theory for Evolving Application Models
In this article we provide a general theory for evolving information systems. This theory makes a distinction between the...
NoSE: Schema Design for NoSQL Applications
Database design is critical for high performance in relational databases and a myriad of tools exist to aid application...
Materialization
A new data abstraction, called Materializdion, is introduced to model a situation that occurs frequently in the real world...
A Graph-Oriented Object Database Model
A graph-oriented object database model (GOOD) is introduced as a theoretical basis for database systems in which manipulation as...
Deductive Entity Relationship Modeling
We present an entity relationship oriented model, which essentially includes the notion of class, together with different types of...
Semantic Abstractions in the Multimedia Domain
Information searching by exactly matching content is traditionally a strong point of machine searching; this is not, however, how...
Extending BCDM to Cope with Proposals and Evaluations of Updates
The cooperative construction of data/knowledge bases has recently had a significant impulse (see, e.g., Wikipedia ). In cases in...
A Conceptual Clustering Algorithm for Database Schema Design
Conceptual clustering techniques based on current theories of categorization provide a way to design database schemas that more accurately...
Innovative Teaching Materials and Method s for Systems Analysis and Design
This article describes materials and methods for a course in systems analysis and design . While the article is...
