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 ...
Abstract The most difficult and time consuming activity to perform during view integration is to find correspondences between different view specifications. Such correspondences...
Ernst Ellmer, Christian Huemer, Dieter Merkl, G&uu...