On augmenting database design-support environments to capture the geo-spatio-temporal data semantics

Information Systems

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 98-133

  Khatri, Vijay ^a   Ram, Sudha ^b   Snodgrass, Richard T ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer Aided Software System Engineering tool; Data semantics; Database design; Geo spatio temporal database; Semantic model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; XML;

COMPUTER-AIDED SOFTWARE/SYSTEM ENGINEERING TOOL; DATA SEMANTICS; DATABASE DESIGN; GEO-SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATABASE; SEMANTIC MODEL;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 27844494706     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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