An algorithm to extract Is_A inheritance hierarchies from a relational database

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

Volumn 1728, Issue , 1999, Pages 218-232

  Lammari, Nadira ^a  

^a Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

ALGORITHMIC APPROACH; CONCEPTUAL SCHEMAS; INHERITANCE HIERARCHIES; NULL VALUE; OBJECT ORIENTED; RELATIONAL DATABASE;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0346796255     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-47866-3_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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