Most database interfaces provide poor guidance on ad hoc query formulation, burdening users to learn, and to recall precisely the query language and the database. Kaleidoscope avo...
It is widely recognized that production rules in database systems can be used to automatically maintain derived data such as views. However, writing a correct set of rules for e ci...
: This paper describes a design methodology for an object oriented database,basedon a semantic network. This approach is based on the assumption that Yemanticdata models are more p...
The development of a distributed database systemrequires effective solutions to many complex and interrelated design problems. The cost dependenciesbetween query optimization and ...
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...
We present a priority system which is particularly suited for production rules coupled to databases. In this system, there are default priorities between all rules and overriding ...
Rakesh Agrawal, Roberta Cochrane, Bruce G. Lindsay
Object-oriented data models are receiving wide attention since they provide expressive ionmechanismsto model naturally and directly both structural and behavioral aspectsof comple...
This paper presentsa version model which handlesdatabaseschemachangesandwhich takesevolution into account. Its originality is in allowing the development of partial schema version...