Representing and querying histories of semistructured databases using multidimensional OEM

Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 461-482

  Stavrakas, Yannis ^a,b   Gergatsoulis, Manolis ^c   Doulkeridis, Christos ^a   Zafeiris, Vassilis ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^c IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Context dependent data; Histories of semistructured databases; Multidimensional OEM; Multidimensional semistructured data; Querying semistructured database histories

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; MAPPING; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONTEXT-DEPENDENT DATA; HISTORIES OF SEMISTRUCTURED DATABASES; MULTIDIMENSIONAL OEM; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SEMISTRUCTURED DATA; QUERYING SEMISTRUCTURED DATABASE HISTORIES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842530093     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2003.10.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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