Research Catalog

Title

Nested relations and complex objects in databases / S. Abiteboul, P.C. Fischer, H.-J. Schek, (eds.).

Publication

Berlin : Springer-Verlag, ©1989.

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Additional Authors

• Abiteboul, S. (Serge)
• Fischer, P. C. (Patrick C.)
• Schek, H.-J.

Description

vi, 323 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"This volume was primarily intended to present selected papers from the workshop on Theory and Applications of Nested Relations and Complex Objects, held in Darmstadt, FRG, from April 6-8, 1987. Other papers were solicited in order to provide a picture of the field as general as possible. Research on nested relations and complex objects originates in the late seventies. The motivation was to obtain data models and systems which would provide support for so-called complex objects or molecular structures, i.e., for hierarchically organized data, thereby overcoming severe shortcomings of the relational model. This theme of research is now maturing. Systems based on those ideas are beginning to be available. Languages of various natures (algebras, calculi, graphical, logic-oriented) have been designed and a theory is slowly emerging. Finally, new developments in database technology and research are incorporating features of models involving complex objects. A variety of approaches is represented in this volume. The first three papers give overviews of major pioneering implementation efforts. The fourth paper is devoted to the important issue of implementation of storage structures. The next three papers propose excursions in the foundations of nested relations and complex objects. The following six contributions are all devoted to modeling of complex objects. The area of database design is represented by the last four papers."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Lecture notes in computer science ; 361

Uniform Title

Lecture notes in computer science ; 361.

Subject

• Database management
• Relational databases
• Datenbank
• Geschachtelte Relation
• Komplexes Objekt
• Datenbank
• Geschachtelte Relation
• Komplexes Objekt

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Kongress.

Note

• "Selected papers from the workshop Theory and applications of nested relations and complex objects held in Darmstadt (West Germany) on April 6-8, 1987."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part 1. System design ; The advanced information management prototype / Peter Pistor, Peter Dadam -- Verso : a database machine based on nested relations / Michel Scholl, Serge Abiteboul, Francois Bancilhon, Nicole Bidoit, Sophie Gamerman, Didier Plateau, Philippe Richard, and Anne Verroust -- The two roles of nested relations in the DASDBS project / Hans -J. Schek, Marc H. Scholl -- A storage structure for nested relational databases / Anand Deshpande and Dirk Van Gucht -- Part 2. Fundamental issues ; Four views of complex objects : a sophisticate's introduction / Richard Hull -- An introduction to the completeness of languages for complex objects and nested relations / Serge Abiteboul, Catriel Beeri, Marc Gyssens, Dirk van Gucht -- On the uniqueness of nested relations / Koichi Takeda -- Part 3. Database modeling ; An introduction to the nested sequences of Tuples data model and algebra / Ralf H. Güting and Roberto Zicari -- Recursively defined complex objects / Winfried Lamersdorf -- Query languages for nested relational databases / Henry F. Korth and Mark A. Roth -- Nested relations and recursive queries / Volker Linnemann -- Realization of nested relation interfaces for relational and network databases / Yahiko Kambayashi, Tetsuya Furukawa, Hideki Yamamoto -- An approach to manage large inheritance networks within a DBS supporting nested relations / Rudi Studer and Stefan Börner -- Part 4. Database design ; On the normalization in nested relational databases / Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu and Li-Yan Yuan -- Complex objects modeling : an entity-relationship approach / Christine Parent and Stefano Spaccapietra -- A data model for complex objects based on a semantic database model and nested relations / Andreas Heuer -- [Lower case Greek gamma]-Acyclic database schemes and nested relations / Mark Levene and George Loizou.

ISBN

• 0387511717
• 9780387511719
• 3540511717
• 9783540511717
• 9783540461753 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

89011324

OCLC

• ocm19741663
• 19741663
• SCSB-1725707

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library