Design and implementation of Chimera active rule language

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-67

  Guerrini, Giovanna ^a   Montesi, Danilo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active databases; Design and implementation; Trigger support

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA STRUCTURES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE DATABASES; CHIMERA OBJECT ORIENTED DATABASE SYSTEM;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031259084     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-023X(97)00016-5     Document Type: Article

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