Semantics in Databases
Published on 25. February 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 271 pages
978-3-540-64199-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Series
Edition
1998 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 271 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-64199-5 (9783540641995)
DOI
10.1007/BFb0035002
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
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.