A semantic approach for schema evolution and versioning in object-oriented databases

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 1861, Issue , 2000, Pages 1048-1062

  Franconi, Enrico ^a   Grandi, Fabio ^b   Mandreoli, Federica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTION LOGIC; OBJECT ORIENTED DATABASE; OBJECT ORIENTED MODEL; REASONING TASKS; SCHEMA CHANGES; SCHEMA EVOLUTION; SCHEMA VERSIONING; SEMANTIC APPROACH; VERSIONING;

DATA DESCRIPTION; LOGIC PROGRAMMING;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84867820760     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44957-4_70     Document Type: Conference Paper

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