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Chapter and Conference Paper
A lock technique for disjoint and non-disjoint complex objects
Using database systems in the field of non-standard applications like engineering, robotics, etc. leads to many new requirements. Some of the major ones are support of (disjoint and non-disjoint) complex objec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Introduction
Object-oriented database systems are one of the more promising concepts for database support for engineering applications. In the literature two levels of object-orientation are distinguished: structural and the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Managing Complex Objects in R2D2
R2D2 — A Relational Robotics Database System with Extensible Data Types — is a joint project of the IBM Heidelberg Scientific Center and the University of Karlsruhe, Computer Science Department. It aims at the de...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Object-Oriented Databases for Robot Programming
R2D2 (Relational Robotics Database System with Extensible Data Types) is a cooperative project that aims at database support for engineering applications in ways that give the engineering user a view of the datab...
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Chapter
Design of an Integrated DBMS to Support Advanced Applications
New applications of DBMS’s in areas of sciences, engineering and offices have produced new requirements that are not satisfied in current DBMS’s. Included among these requirements are support for both the norm...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Managing Schema Versions in a Time-Versioned Non-First-Normal-Form Relational Database
Support of time versions is a very advanced feature in a DBMS. However, full flexibility of history processing is achieved only if we can also change the database schema dynamically, without touching the histo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of an Integrated DBMS to Support Advanced Applications
New applications of DBMS’s in areas of sciences, engineering and offices have produced new requirements that are not satisfied in current DBMS’s. Included among these requirements are support for both the norm...