The role of polymorphic reuse mechanisms in schema evolution in an object-oriented database

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 50-67

  Liu, Ling ^a,c   Zicari, Roberto ^a,d   Hürsch, Walter ^b,f   Lieberherr, Karl J ^a,e  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b IEEE

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ZÜHLKE ENGINEERING AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive software specification and development; Knowledge reasoning; Object oriented database systems; Program adaptation; Schema evolution; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION; POLYMORPHIC REUSE MECHANISMS; PROPAGATION PATTERNS; SCHEMA EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE REUSE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030778120     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.567047     Document Type: Article

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