A theory of contexts in information bases

Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 151-191

  Theodorakis, Manos ^a,b   Analyti, Anastasia ^a   Constantopoulos, Panos ^a,b   Spyratos, Nicolas ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Abstractions; Contexts; Cooperative environments; Information modeling; Versions; Viewpoints; Views; Workspaces

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA HANDLING; DATA STRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CONTEXTS; INFORMATION BASES; INFORMATION MODELING; VERSIONS; VIEWPOINTS; WORKSPACES;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0036567897     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4379(01)00036-9     Document Type: Article

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