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Record Nr.

UNISA996466081103316

Titolo

Semantics in Databases [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bernhard Thalheim, Leonid Libkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1998

ISBN

3-540-69700-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 1998.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 271 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1358

Disciplina

005.74

Soggetti

Data structures (Computer science)

Database management

Computer logic

Information storage and retrieval

Data Structures and Information Theory

Database Management

Logics and Meanings of Programs

Information Storage and Retrieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

An informal and efficient approach for obtaining semantic constraints using sample data and natural language processing -- Achievements of relational database schema design theory revisited -- Semantics of database transformations -- The evolving algebra semantics of class and role hierarchies -- Semantics in spatial databases -- The additivity problem for data dependencies in incomplete relational databases -- A semantics-based approach to design of query languages for partial information -- Constraint databases: A survey -- Redundancy elimination and a new normal form for relational database design.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a coherent suvey on exciting developments in database semantics. The origins of the volume date back to a workshop held in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1995. The nine revised full papers and surveys presented were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. They address more traditional aspects like dealing with integrity constraints and conceptual modeling as well as new areas of databases;



object-orientation, incomplete information, database transformations and other issues are investigated by applying formal semantics, e.g. the evolving algebra semantics.