Temporal Databases: Research and Practice

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Etzion, Opher (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Jajodia, Sushil (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sripada, Suryanarayana (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, 1399
• Subjects: Computers.; Information Systems and Communication Service.

This book grew out of a Dagstuhl seminar organized by the volume editors in June 1997. After the seminar, submissions for this book were solicited both from and beyond the group of participants. A peer review process followed, from which only original papers of the highest quality on the state of th...

Table of Contents:

• An object-oriented framework for temporal data models
• An architecture for supporting interoperability among temporal databases
• Extended update functionality in temporal databases
• On transaction management in temporal databases
• Implementation options for time-series data
• Expressive power of temporal relational query languages and temporal completeness
• Transitioning temporal support in TSQL2 to SQL3
• Valid time and transaction time proposals: Language design aspects
• Point-based temporal extensions of SQL and their efficient implementation
• Applicability of temporal data models to query multilevel security databases: A case study
• An architecture and construction of a business event manager
• Discovering unexpected patterns in temporal data using temporal logic
• Querying the uncertain position of moving objects
• Temporal database bibliography update
• The consensus glossary of temporal database concepts - February 1998 version
• A glossary of time granularity concepts.