Partial information in databases can arise when information from several databases is combined. Even if each database is complete for some \world", the combined databases wil...
Abstract. Extension of the relational database model to represent complex data has been a focus of much research in recent years. At the same time, an alternative extension of the ...
A tuple t1 of relation R subsumes tuple t2 of R, with respect to a query Q if for every database, tuple t1 derives all, and possibly more, answers to query Q than derived by tuple ...
We are concerned by schema evolution in Object Oriented Databases (OODB) that is processed by a modification on the classes on the schema. We present a new categorization of the d...
Abstract. This paper presents techniques for reverse engineering of relational database applications. The target of such an effort is the definition of a fully equipped object-orie...
We describe a (meta) formalism for defining a variety of (object oriented) data models in a unified framework based on a variation of first-order logic. As specific example we use...
Based on a systematic study of the semantics of temporal attributes of entities, this paper provides new guidelines for the design of temporal relational databases. The notions of ...