Semantics in Databases

✍ Scribed by Meike Albrecht, Edith Buchholz, Antje Düsterhöft (auth.), Bernhard Thalheim, Leonid Libkin (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Leaves: 276
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1358
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

An informal and efficient approach for obtaining semantic constraints using sample data and natural language processing....Pages 1-28
Achievements of relational database schema design theory revisited....Pages 29-54
Semantics of database transformations....Pages 55-91
The evolving algebra semantics of class and role hierarchies....Pages 92-113
Semantics in spatial databases....Pages 114-135
The additivity problem for data dependencies in incomplete relational databases....Pages 136-169
A semantics-based approach to design of query languages for partial information....Pages 170-208
Constraint databases: A survey....Pages 209-246
Redundancy elimination and a new normal form for relational database design....Pages 247-264

✦ Subjects

Database Management; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Information Storage and Retrieval

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