: Horizontal fragments of a class in an object-oriented database system contain subsets of the class extent or instance objects. These fragments are created with a set of system in...
Abstract: We present DLDB, a knowledge base system that extends a relational database management system with additional capabilities for DAML+OIL inference. We discuss a number of ...
When decomposing database schemas, it is desirable that a decomposition is lossless and dependency preserving. A well-known and frequently used result for the relational model stat...
Abstract In this paper we present a new rule-based approach for consistency preserving view updating in deductive databases. Based on rule transformations performed during schema d...
: This paper introduces the concept of Ontology based Geo-Object Catalog (OGOC). An OGOC acts as a focal point for a federation of independent geoobject sources, providing consolid...
Daniela F. Brauner, Marco A. Casanova, Carlos Jos&...