Semantic models have shown the utility of arbitrary user-de ned relationships for de ning the semantics of database information, while objectoriented models have developed a stron...
Semantic relationships, those class-to-class connections that carry inherent support for constraints and various other functionalities, play an important role when building inform...
When implementing a multilevel security policy for Object-Oriented Databases (OODBs), several aspects have to be investigated. One of these aspect is the design of multilevel OODB...
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...
Translating data and data access operations between applications and databases is a longstanding data management problem. We present a novel approach to this problem, in which the...