This paper describes the design and implementation of NAOS, an active rule component in the object-oriented database system 02. The contribution of this work is related to two mai...
One of the objectives of ooDBMSs is to use type-speci c methods for manipulating objects, in order to maintain the consistency of the database. This is, however, little help for t...
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated quite often. Research has extensively dealt with the problem of database evo...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Yannis V...
The paper presents a concept and architecture of specialized Internet portal providing semantic access to knowledge and information resources (electronic collections) for any given...
Yury A. Zagorulko, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Babak Akhg...
In this paper we present methods to generate a Description Logic (DL) theory from a given First Order Logic (FOL) theory, such that each DL axiom is entailed by the given FOL theor...