Semantics in Databases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thalheim, Bernhard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Libkin, Leonid (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1998.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1358
• Subjects: Data structures (Computer science).; Database management.; Computer logic.; Information storage and retrieval.; Data Structures and Information Theory.; Database Management.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

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 tradi...

Table of Contents:

• An informal and efficient approach for obtaining semantic constraints using sample data and natural language processing
• Achievements of relational database schema design theory revisited
• Semantics of database transformations
• The evolving algebra semantics of class and role hierarchies
• Semantics in spatial databases
• The additivity problem for data dependencies in incomplete relational databases
• A semantics-based approach to design of query languages for partial information
• Constraint databases: A survey
• Redundancy elimination and a new normal form for relational database design.