An ontological approach to describe the SQL:2003 object-relational features

Computer Standards and Interfaces

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 695-713

  Calero, C ^a   Ruiz, F ^a   Baroni, A ^b   Brito e Abreu, F ^b   Piattini, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

CWM; Databases; Object Relational Features; OCL; Ontology; SQL:2003 Standard; UML

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; STANDARDIZATION; STANDARDS;

CWM; OBJECT-RELATIONAL FEATURES; OCL; ONTOLOGY; SQL:2003 STANDARD; UML;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 33746261252     PISSN: 09205489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csi.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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