From beginning of 1994 to the end of 1996, the IRO-DB ESPRIT project has developed tools for accessing relational and object-oriented databases in an integrated way. The system is...
Peter Fankhauser, Georges Gardarin, M. Lopez, J. M...
This paper discusses the construction principles of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs from the point of view of conceptual modeling. The paper starts with a summary of author’s previo...
For object-oriented databases we propose a new technique for optimizing queries containing method invocations. This technique is based on the definition of inverse methods and que...
We show that forms of Bayesian and MDL inference that are often applied to classification problems can be inconsistent. This means that there exists a learning problem such that fo...
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated quite often. Research has extensively dealt with the problem of database evo...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Yannis V...