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Behavior analysis of object-oriented databases: Method structure, execution trees, and reachability

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Abstract

A theoretical model for analyzing the behavior of method execution in object-oriented databases (OODBs) is introduced and used to study issues of reachability, nontermination, and well-typedness in the context of restricted classes of OODBs.

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Research supported in part by NSF grant IST-8719875. Portions of this research performed while this author was visiting Kobe University, with partial support from the International Foundation for Information Science, Japan.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, 90089-0782, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Richard Hull

  2. Department of Instrumentation Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University, Rokkodai, Nada, 657, Kobe, Japan

    Katsumi Tanaka

  3. Institute of Computer Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, 603, Kyoto, Japan

    Masatoshi Yoshikawa

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Hull, R., Tanaka, K., Yoshikawa, M. (1989). Behavior analysis of object-oriented databases: Method structure, execution trees, and reachability. In: Litwin, W., Schek, HJ. (eds) Foundations of Data Organization and Algorithms. FODO 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 367. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51295-0_143

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