SAMOS in hindsight: Experiences in building an active object-oriented DBMS

Information Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 369-392

  Dittrich, Klaus R ^a   Fritschi, Hans ^a   Gatziu, Stella ^a,b   Geppert, Andreas ^a,b   Vaduva, Anca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Credit Suisse group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active database systems; ECA rules; Object oriented database systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

ACTIVE DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; EVENT CONDITION ACTION RULES; OBJECT ORIENTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038387166     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4379(02)00022-4     Document Type: Article

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