: True integration of large systems requires sharing of information stored in databases beyond sharing of pure data: business rules associated with this data must be shared also. T...
Business rules are statements that express (certain parts of) a business policy, defining business terms and defining or constraining the operations of an enterprise, in a declar...
A very active field of research of Database Management Systems (DBMS) is concerned with an augmentation of DBMS by rules. Passive rules (constraints) were the first to be investig...
: Active Database Systems (ADBSs) provides a good infrastructure to define and execute active rules. Nevertheless, this infrastructure offered by ADBSs does not completely satisfy ...
Sidney Viana, Jorge Rady de Almeida Jr., Judith Pa...
In order to obtain the performance required for nonstandard database environments, we need suitable storage structures for complex objects. I n this paper we use an hierarchical c...
Wouter B. Teeuw, Christian Rich, Marc H. Scholl, H...