OBJECTIVE:: Handling time-related concepts is essential in medicine. During diagnosis it
can make a substantial difference to know the temporal order in which some symptoms …

A temporal database contains time-varying data. In a real-time database transactions have
deadlines or timing constraints. In this paper we review the substantial research in these two …

The concept of an object-oriented database programming language (OODBPL) is appealing
because it has the potential of combining the advantages of object orientation and database …

The effective and efficient use of information systems in health care organizations and
services are a vital element of the quality of life world wide. The modeling of time has …

We introduce an innovative way to represent the trajectory of a single moving object and the
relative spatio-temporal relations between multiple moving objects. The representation …

The axiomatic model is a formal treatment of DSE in OBSs, which distinguishes it from other
approaches that informally define a number of schema invariants and the rules that enforce …

Multimethods offer several well-known advantages over the single dispatching of
conventional object-oriented languages, including a simple solution to the” binary method …

We describe a general multimedia query language, called MOQL, based on ODMG's Object
Query Language (OQL). In contrast to previous multimedia query languages that are either …

ADOME, which stands for ADvanced Object Modeling Environment, is an approach to
integrating data and knowledge management based on object oriented technology. Next …

In this paper we define the Temporal and Versioning Model for Schema Evolution (TVSE), a
model that uses time and version concepts to manage dynamic schema evolution in object …