Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Data Model Tailoring and Database Integration

Klas, Wolfgang; Schrefl, Michael

Conventional object-oriented data models are closed: although they allow users to define application-specific classes, they usually come with a fixed set of modelling primitives. This constitutes a major problem, as different application domains, e.g. database integration or multimedia, need special support.
Using an extended metaclass concept, this book provides for the solution of this problem a simple but extendible open object-oriented data model, a so-called RISC model. By introducing the basic concepts of the open object-oriented database management system VODAK, it demonstrates how the extended metaclass concept can be integrated homogeneously into object-oriented data models.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 1995-07-14

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783540600633

DOI: 10.1007/BFb0027185

Dimensions: 233cm x155cm

Pages: 210