Supporting graceful schema evolution represents an unsolved problem for traditional information systems that is further exacerbated in web information systems, such as Wikipedia a...
Abstract. In knowledge bases, the open world assumption and the ability to express variables may lead to an answer redundancy problem. This problem occurs when the returned answers...
METU Object-Oriented DBMS 1 includes the implementation of a database kernel, an object-oriented SQL-like language and a graphical user interface. Kernel functions are divided bet...
Asuman Dogac, Cetin Ozkan, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar...
The complexity, cost, and down-time currently created by the database schema evolution process is the source of incessant problems in the life of information systems and a major s...
It is known that the composition of schema mappings, each specified by source-to-target tgds (st-tgds), can be specified by a secondorder tgd (SO tgd). We consider the question of...