A formal definition of the Chimera object-oriented data model

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-40

  Guerrini, Giovanna ^a   Bertino, Elisa ^b   Bal, René ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active database systems; Deductive database systems; Object oriented data models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORMAL LOGIC;

ACTIVE DATABASE SYSTEMS; DEDUCTIVE DATABASE SYSTEMS; OBJECT-ORIENTED DATA MODELS; CHIMERA LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED DATA MODELS;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 0032122757     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008618309981     Document Type: Article

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