A semantic approach for schema evolution and versioning in object-oriented databases

Authors: 
Franconi, E; Grandi, F; Mandreoli, F
Author: 
Franconi, E
Grandi, F
Mandreoli, F
Year: 
2000
Venue: 
Proc. DOOD 2000
URL: 
http://www.cs.ru.nl/is/edu/ef1/trafo/papers/dood00.pdf
Citations: 
91
Citations range: 
50 - 99
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In this paper a semantic approach for the specification and the management
of databases with evolving schemata is introduced. It is shown how a general
object-oriented model for schema versioning and evolution can be formalized; how
the semantics of schema change operations can be defined; how interesting reasoning
tasks can be supported, based on an encoding in description logics.