Is point-based semantics always adequate for temporal databases?

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 191-199

  Terenziani, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algebra; Artificial intelligence; Data models; Information analysis; ISO standards; Relational databases; Standardization

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION;

ISO STANDARDS; POINT-BASED; RELATIONAL DATABASE; TEMPORAL DATA; TEMPORAL DATABASE; TEMPORAL RELATIONAL DATABASE;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84949943641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TIME.2000.856601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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