Semantics in Databases

1. Front Matter

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2. An informal and efficient approach for obtaining semantic constraints using sample data and natural language processing

   • Meike Albrecht, Edith Buchholz, Antje Düsterhöft, Bernhard Thalheim

   Pages 1-28

3. Achievements of relational database schema design theory revisited

   • Joachim Biskup

   Pages 29-54

4. Semantics of database transformations

   • Susan Davidson, Peter Buneman, Anthony Kosky

   Pages 55-91

5. The evolving algebra semantics of class and role hierarchies

   • Georg Gottlob, Michael Schrefl

   Pages 92-113

6. Semantics in spatial databases

   • Bart Kuijpers, Jan Paredaens, Luc Vandeurzen

   Pages 114-135

7. The additivity problem for data dependencies in incomplete relational databases

   • Mark Levene, George Loizou

   Pages 136-169

8. A semantics-based approach to design of query languages for partial information

   • Leonid Libkin

   Pages 170-208

9. Constraint databases: A survey

   • Peter Z. Revesz

   Pages 209-246

10. Redundancy elimination and a new normal form for relational database design

    • Millist W. Vincent

    Pages 247-264

11. Back Matter

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This book presents a coherent suvey on exciting developments in database semantics. The origins of the volume date back to a workshop held in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1995. The nine revised full papers and surveys presented were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. They address more traditional aspects like dealing with integrity constraints and conceptual modeling as well as new areas of databases; object-orientation, incomplete information, database transformations and other issues are investigated by applying formal semantics, e.g. the evolving algebra semantics.

• constraint databases
• database
• database semantics
• modeling
• object-oriented databases
• relational database
• relational databases
• semantics
• spatial databases

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