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Modelling Temporal Semantics in an Object-Oriented Database

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OOIS’ 95

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A temporal object model has been implemented as a generic collection class based on ordered collections of time points. A detailed description of the Chronicle class and subclasses is given, and the problems of expressing general temporal queries are outlined. Advantages include group level transaction timestamping and an intuitive application framework.

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  1. School of Computing, Information Systems, and Mathematics, South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London, SEI 0AA, England

    Paul Schleifer, Yuan Sun & Dilip Patel

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Schleifer, P., Sun, Y., Patel, D. (1996). Modelling Temporal Semantics in an Object-Oriented Database. In: Murphy, J., Stone, B. (eds) OOIS’ 95. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1009-5_29

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