Chrono: A conceptual design framework for temporal entities

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1507, Issue , 1998, Pages 35-50

  Bergamaschi, Sonia ^a,c   Sartori, Claudio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; DATA MINING; DESIGN;

COMMERCIAL DESIGN; CONSTRAINT GENERATION; DATABASE APPLICATIONS; MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY; RELATIONAL DATABASE; TEMPORAL DATABASE; TIME-VARYING INFORMATION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0242510857     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49524-6_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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