Materialization and its metaclass implementation

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1078-1094

  Dahchour, Mohamed ^b   Pirotte, Alain ^a,b   Zimányi, Esteban ^c  

^a IEEE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conceptual modeling; Generic relationship; Inheritance; Materialization; Metaclass; Object orientation

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODELING; METACLASS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

METADATA;

EID: 0036709430     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2002.1033775     Document Type: Article

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