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Function materialization through object versioning in object-oriented databases

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Advances in Databases (BNCOD 1993)

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This paper discusses function materialization for features of objects in object-oriented databases, and identifies its role in design databases. Drawbacks with the present approaches are discussed and a new approach to this materialization is presented, which has been implemented in prototype form. In a tentative and iterative engineering design environment, function materialization is seen as a useful optimization technique for designers. As design artefacts develop, they evolve through a succession of versions. Our new approach to materialization involves creating a function materialization object to hold a pre-computed set of results for a function. Dependencies between function materialization objects and component objects are represented, so that changes to component objects will cause new versions of dependent function materialization objects to be created. A configuration manager maintains consistent groupings of complex design objects and their corresponding materialized function objects in dereferenced monolithic versions.

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Carnduff, T.W., Gray, W.A. (1993). Function materialization through object versioning in object-oriented databases. In: Worboys, M.F., Grundy, A.F. (eds) Advances in Databases. BNCOD 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 696. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56921-9_7

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