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2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Novel Approach to Model NOW in Temporal Databases
In bitemporal databases, current facts and transaction states are modelled using a special value to represent the current time (such as a minimum or maximum timestamp or NULL). Pr...
Bela Stantic, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar
ICDE
2001
IEEE
120views Database» more  ICDE 2001»
14 years 6 months ago
A Split Operator for Now-Relative Bitemporal Databases
The timestamps of now-relative bitemporal databases are modeled as growing, shrinking, or rectangular regions. The shape of these regions makes it a challenge to design bitemporal...
Mikkel Agesen, Michael H. Böhlen, Lasse Pouls...
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
115views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
Temporal Coalescing with Now, Granularity, and Incomplete Information
This paper presents a novel strategy for temporal coalescing. Temporal coalescing merges the temporal extents of value-equivalent tuples. A temporal extent is usually coalesced of...
Curtis E. Dyreson
DATESO
2006
106views Database» more  DATESO 2006»
13 years 6 months ago
GeKon - Applying Novel Approaches to GIS Development
Abstract. This paper describes a few ideas concerned with geographical information systems (GIS) development. Those ideas come from a GIS development project named GeKon, which is ...
Tomas Richta
ER
2004
Springer
92views Database» more  ER 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
XBiT: An XML-Based Bitemporal Data Model
Abstract. Past research work on modeling and managing temporal information has, so far, failed to elicit support in commercial database systems. The increasing popularity of XML oï...
Fusheng Wang, Carlo Zaniolo