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The OODB Ownership Relationship

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OOIS’94

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The notion of “ownership” is prevalent in many social, economic, and political activities. In this paper, we show that an “ownership” semantic relationship can be a powerful addition to the repertoire of object-oriented database (OODB) modeling primitives. The motivation for such a relationship is provided by example OODB schemata. Using these schemata and some (informal) legal definitions, the varied semantics of ownership are identified A formal ownership relationship is presented as an extension to an OODB data model.

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  1. CIS Department and CMS, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Oscar Yang, Yehoshua Perl & Michael Halper

  2. Dept. of Math & Computer Science, Kean College of New Jersey Union, NJ, 07083, USA

    James Geller

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  1. School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, SE1 0AA, London, UK

    Dilip Patel , Yuan Sun  & Shushma Patel ,  & 

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Yang, O., Geller, J., Perl, Y., Halper, M. (1995). The OODB Ownership Relationship. In: Patel, D., Sun, Y., Patel, S. (eds) OOIS’94. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3016-1_23

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