During the last decade, all commercial database systems have included features for parallel processing into their products. This development has been driven by the fact that datab...
Relational database systems represent the current standard technology for implementing database applications. Now that the object-oriented paradigm becomes more and more mature in...
In this paper we discuss two data models for spatial database systems: the linear data model and the topological data model. Both can be used to model a wide range of applications....
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is being used as the de-facto standard in the software industry. With the adoption of UML 2.0, the new enhancements allow this version to desc...
Applications typically have some local understanding of a database schema, a virtual database that may differ significantly from the actual schema of the data where it is stored...
James F. Terwilliger, Lois M. L. Delcambre, David ...