Download or read book Semantics in Databases written by Bernhard Thalheim and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-02-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a coherent suvey on exciting developments in database semantics. The origins of the volume date back to a workshop held in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1995. The nine revised full papers and surveys presented were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. They address more traditional aspects like dealing with integrity constraints and conceptual modeling as well as new areas of databases; object-orientation, incomplete information, database transformations and other issues are investigated by applying formal semantics, e.g. the evolving algebra semantics.