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Schema Change Operations for Versioning Complex Objects Hierarchy in OODBs

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Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice (ER 2006)

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In this paper, we propose a set of schema change operations which allows to restructure complex object hierarchy in object-oriented databases. This model extends a schema version model, called RiBS, which is based on the concept of Rich Base Schema. In the RiBS model, each schema version is in the form of updatable class hierarchy view over one base schema, called the RiBS layer, which has richer schema information than any existing schema version in the database.

In this paper, we introduce new operations for restructuring composite object hierarchy in schema versions, and explain their semantics. The originality of this paper lies in that 1) we introduce several new operations to restructure composite object hierarchy, and 2) this extended RiBS model operations raise the concept of data independence in OODBs upto the schema level.

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  1. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Cheoncheon-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, 440-746, Korea

    Sang-Won Lee

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  1. Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    John F. Roddick

  2. iSOCO, Spain

    V. Richard Benjamins

  3. CEDRIC-CNAM, France

    Samira Si-said Cherfi

  4. University of Cincinnati, USA

    Roger Chiang

  5. Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France

    Christophe Claramunt

  6. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

    Ramez A. Elmasri

  7. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy

    Fabio Grandi

  8. Drexel University, USA

    Hyoil Han

  9. E-Business and Web Science Research Group, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany

    Martin Hepp

  10. University of Patras, Argolidos 40-42, 153-44, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  11. University of Manitoba, Canada

    Vojislav B. Mišić

  12. Ghent University, Belgium

    Geert Poels

  13. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  14. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    Juan Trujillo

  15. EPFL, Switzerland

    Christelle Vangenot

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Lee, SW. (2006). Schema Change Operations for Versioning Complex Objects Hierarchy in OODBs. In: Roddick, J.F., et al. Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice. ER 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908883_30

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