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Specifications of database systems : International Workshop on Specifications of Database Systems, Glasgow, 3-5 July 1991 / David J. Harper.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, United Kingdom : Springer, c1992Description: 1 volume (viii - 319 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 354019732X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA 76.9.D3 .S64 1992
Contents:
Transforming Functional Database Schemes to Relational Representations.- Formal Development of Relational Database Applications.- Formal Definition of Nested Relations by Syntactical Mappings.- Specifying Deductive Databases and Integrity Constraints in Meta-logic.- A Denotational Approach to Object-Oriented Query Language Definition.- Reasoning about a Modular Model-Oriented Formal Specification.- Object Models and Methodology for Object-Oriented Database Design.- A Formal Model for Databases with Applications to Schema Merging.- Specifying a Database System to Itself.- VVSL Specification of a Transaction-oriented Access Handler.- A Specification of an Object-Oriented Data Model with Relations.- Specification of Database Applications in the TROLL Language.- Algebraic Specification of Databases - A Survey from a Database Perspective.- Towards a Structured Specification Language for Database Applications.- The Reification Dimension in Object-oriented Data Base Design.- Database Specification using Transaction Sets.- Working Group Sessions.- Author Index.
Summary: The working groups, which are summarised at the end of the volume, covered a variety of issues including the role of graphical notations in database specification, the use of specification techniques in enabling "open" or extensible database systems and the education of the database community in specification techniques.
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Includes index.

Transforming Functional Database Schemes to Relational Representations.- Formal Development of Relational Database Applications.- Formal Definition of Nested Relations by Syntactical Mappings.- Specifying Deductive Databases and Integrity Constraints in Meta-logic.- A Denotational Approach to Object-Oriented Query Language Definition.- Reasoning about a Modular Model-Oriented Formal Specification.- Object Models and Methodology for Object-Oriented Database Design.- A Formal Model for Databases with Applications to Schema Merging.- Specifying a Database System to Itself.- VVSL Specification of a Transaction-oriented Access Handler.- A Specification of an Object-Oriented Data Model with Relations.- Specification of Database Applications in the TROLL Language.- Algebraic Specification of Databases - A Survey from a Database Perspective.- Towards a Structured Specification Language for Database Applications.- The Reification Dimension in Object-oriented Data Base Design.- Database Specification using Transaction Sets.- Working Group Sessions.- Author Index.

The working groups, which are summarised at the end of the volume, covered a variety of issues including the role of graphical notations in database specification, the use of specification techniques in enabling "open" or extensible database systems and the education of the database community in specification techniques.

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