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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Book Title: Metaclasses and Their Application
Book Subtitle: Data Model Tailoring and Database Integration
Authors: Wolfgang Klas, Michael Schrefl
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027185
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1995
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-60063-3Published: 14 July 1995
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-49423-2Published: 19 November 2005
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 210
Topics: Database Management, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Data Structures, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

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