: 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...
: A definition of types in an information system is given from real-world abstractions through data constructs, schema and definitions to physical data values. Category theory su...
B. Nick Rossiter, David A. Nelson, Michael A. Heat...
: This paper brings together two research areas, i.e. “Data Warehouses” and “Temporal Databases”, involving representation of time. Looking at temporal aspects within a dat...
: We propose in this article an object-oriented approach to rewriting queries using views. Our approach aims to mitigate certain limitations of existing query rewriting approaches....
: 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...