We explore the implications of supporting bags (i.e. multisets) in a data model and associated query language, and present some formal results concerned with the algebraic propert...
In this paper we discuss two data models for spatial database systems: the linear data model and the topological data model. Both can be used to model a wide range of applications....
Dozens of temporal extension of the relational data model and of the query language SQL have appeared in recent years. Recently, a committee formed by researchers from the academi...
The main objective of machine discovery is the determination of relations between data and of data models. In the paper we describe a method for discovery of data models represent...
the research activities. This abstract is to introduce the approach of a data model - EP data model. Its data structure is able to store as a finite set of nodes arbitrary effectiv...
The formal description of the semantics of object-oriented data models is still an open problem. Some characteristic features of object-oriented data models, such as methods and i...
A normal form object-oriented entity relationship (OOER) diagram is presented to address a set of 00 data modelling issues, viz. the inability to judge the quality of an 00 schema,...
MDM is a tool that enables the users to de ne schemes of di erent data models and to perform translations of schemes from one model to another. These functionalities can be at the...
This work investigates the practical issue of mapping existing GIS to the OpenGIS standards. We describe the data models used in three systems (MGE, ARC/INFO and SPRING) and analys...
Whilst it is a common task in systems integration to have to transform between di erent semantic data models, such inter-model transformations are often speci ed in an ad hoc manne...