This paper aims at integrating techniques of non-monotonic reasoning about updates and of object-oriented specification of information systems. We present how to utilize defaults i...
An important activity in the design of a particular database application consists in identifying the integrity constraints that must hold on the database, and that are used to det...
Karla A. V. Borges, Alberto H. F. Laender, Clodove...
Experience has shown that prototypingis a valuabletechnique in the validation of designs. However, the prototype(s) can be too far semantically removed from the design. Animation ...
Video data management (VDM) is fast becoming one of seminar topics in multimedia information systems. In VDM systems, there exists an important need for novel techniques and mechan...
Semantic relationships, those class-to-class connections that carry inherent support for constraints and various other functionalities, play an important role when building inform...