A survey of object-oriented concepts

Many concepts in object-oriented conceptual modelling have complex semantics that are unfortunately not precisely defined. This paper demonstrates that with a few simple and formally defined concepts one can define more complex concepts such as e.g. ...

From the beginning of 1994 to the end of 1996, the IRO-DB (Interoperable Relational and Object-Oriented Databases) ESPRIT project has developed tools for accessing relational and object-oriented databases in an integrated way, and for designing and ...

Database management systems (DBMSs) are being used in a wide variety of domains to handle many types of data. Scientific data pose a special challenge to DBMSs due to their volume and complex nature. The object-oriented model has many additional ...