Incorporating semantic relationships into an object-oriented database system

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Abstract

Semantic relationships between classes play an important role when building information systems. This is true in traditional data modeling, knowledge representation, and object-oriented modeling. An example of such a semantic relationship is the part-whole relationship. Most object-oriented modeling approaches include such constructs. However, commercial object-oriented database (OODB) systems ordinarily do not provide built-in support for them. We present a methodology by which a semantic relationship can be incorporated into an existing OODB system. We give an overview of the general methodology and show the addition of a part-whole semantic relationship to the ONTOS OODB system. An example application demonstrating our implementation is available on the Web.

Identifier

0032759598 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

ISSN

10603425

First Page

214

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