Temporal Databases: Research and Practice

by Opher Etzion (Editor)

An object-oriented framework for temporal data models.- An architecture for supporting interoperability among temporal databases.- Extended update functionality in temporal databases.- On transaction management in temporal databases.- Implementation options for time-series data.- Expressive power of temporal relational query languages and temporal completeness.- Transitioning temporal support in TSQL2 to SQL3.- Valid time and transaction time Language design aspects.- Point-based temporal extensions of SQL and their efficient implementation.- Applicability of temporal data models to query multilevel security A case study.- An architecture and construction of a business event manager.- Discovering unexpected patterns in temporal data using temporal logic.- Querying the uncertain position of moving objects.- Temporal database bibliography update.- The consensus glossary of temporal database concepts - February 1998 version.- A glossary of time granularity concepts.

448 pages, Paperback

First published May 13, 1998