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An Indexing Structure for Aggregation Relationship in OODB

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2000)

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In an object-oriented database, classes are organized according to three types of relationship, namely generalization, association and aggregation relationships. These relationships, which impact the query language in different ways, should be considered if we want to design a suitable indexing structure for an object-oriented database. Many researchers focus on generalization and association relationships when trying to find indexing structures for the OODB. For the aggregation hierarchy, there is no deep research in this field. Though we can use the same indexing architectures as have been proposed for association relationships, we must consider the special features of the aggregation relationship. These particular features of aggregation relationships are discussed in this paper in detail considering both the similarities and differences with the association relationship. Next the paper presents index nesting techniques to support aggregation relationships in composite objects. A comparison between this technique and other indexing techniques is also discussed in this paper.

This research work is supported by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University grant G-V680

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  1. The Dept. Of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

    Xiao Renguo & Tharam S. Dillon

  2. The Dept. of Computer Science & Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Australia

    W. Rahayu & E. Chang

  3. The Dept. of Information System, University of Cincinnati, USA

    N. Gorla

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  1. Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Maritime Greenwich University Campus, 30 Park Row, London, SE10 9LS, UK

    Mohamed Ibrahim

  2. University of Linz, FAW, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

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  3. Middlesex University, Bounds Green, London, UK

    Norman Revell

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Renguo, X., Dillon, T.S., Rahayu, W., Chang, E., Gorla, N. (2000). An Indexing Structure for Aggregation Relationship in OODB. In: Ibrahim, M., Küng, J., Revell, N. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1873. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44469-6_3

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