时态查询语言对处理不明确时间间隔的扩展

关于时态数据库的先前工作,主要是建立在时态属性的时间间隔和事件的开始/终止点都十分清楚的基础上.然而,在许多实际情况中,事件的时间界限并不十分清楚.因此,表示不明确时间,并给出处理不明确时间查询的方法,是对时态数据库中目前仍缺少的一个有效的扩展.讨论了时态数据库处理不明确时间存在的一些问题,并描述不明确时间间隔的方法.之后扩展了各种时态运算,并给出了与不明确时间相关的新运算符.也提出了能够处理不明确时间的查询语言扩展.在此讨论的时态查询语言对处理不明确时间间隔的扩展和丰富时态数据库的适应性有一定作用.     

双时态XML查询中now语义失真的研究与扩展

本文研究如何有效地查询基于"单属性表示时态信息"的XML文档的时态信息操作,并选择XML功能较为强大的查询语言XQuery进行时态查询扩展.文中先计论如何解决时态数据库中特殊元素now的语义失真的问题,然后对XQuery进行双时态扩展,最后给出扩展后的查询实例.     

时态查询语言对处理不明确时间间隔的扩展

关于时态数据库的先前工作，主要是建立在时态属性的时间间隔和事件的开始／终止点都十分清楚的基础上，然而，在许多实际情况中，事件的时间界限并不十分清楚。因此，表示不明确时间，并给出处理不明确时间查询的方法，是对时态数据库中目前仍缺少的一个有效的扩展。讨论了时态数据库处理不明确时间存在的一些问题，并描述不明确时间隔的方法，之后扩展了各种时态运算，并给出了与不明确时间相关的新运算符。也提出了能够处理不明确时间的查询语言扩展。在此讨论的时是询语言对处理不明确时间间隔的扩展和丰富时态数据库的适应性有一定作用。     

TempDB:时态数据管理系统

为了适应时态数据库发展需求,针对目前时态数据库技术实现则相对滞后现状,设计和实现了时态数据处理原型系统TempDB. TempDB采用中间件的架构实现,使用具有代表性的时态查询语言--ATSQL2,将时态操作语言转换成与之语义等价的、标准的SQL语言,然后在后台DBMS上执行,实现了基本的时态数据管理功能. TempDB总结应用了相关理论知识,同时也为时态数据库系统的产品化积累了经验.     

STQing：一种时态GIS可视化查询语言

在GIS领域,时态属性日趋重要,很多数据库管理系统已经加入了时间和空间属性而成为空间数据库系统。本文在此基础上提出了时态可视化,并设计了一个可以适应时空变化能力的图标式可视化查询语言STQing。     

基于时态数据类型的时态数据索引方法

在系统中引入时态数据类型，使得在关系数据库系统中能对时态数据信息进行方便有效的管理。该文给出了一个基于时态数据类型的时态索引方法：MAP21*3B+-Tree方法，通过对时态数据的各个域分别建立索引，实现双时态数据库的各种时态查询。     

时态面向对象数据库查询算法研究

时态关系数据库在关系数据库的基础上扩充了对时间数据的处理、而时态面向对象数据库则是在面向对象数据库的基础上扩充了对时间数据的处理。在时态数据基态修正模型的基础上,讨论了时态面向对象数据库查询优化策略,并给出相应的算法。     

时态数据库时间轴的动态逻辑模型

尽管在1994年,Gabbay等人论证了时态逻辑的公理化系统和证明论方法是不适合于时态数据库查询语言建模的,但是仍需要通过对时间轴的公理化建模,利用公理化系统的可靠和完全等性质对时间轴作“细精度”的语义刻画.只有这样才能准确地在数据库中反映时间和时间属性的本质特点,并应用于与时间轴模型直接相关的时态查询语言.因此,从分析时间轴的性质出发,对时间轴的序关系和谓词逻辑性质进行了研究和阐述.随后分别用经典的时态逻辑Tense Logic和动态逻辑对时态数据库的时间轴进行了公理化建模,这样刻画的目的是为了“细精度”地体现时间轴的特点,并借助逻辑的方法对其分析.在TDB(temporal database)时间轴的动态逻辑建模部分,相对于原时态逻辑系统较为静态,着重处理了时间的动态性,并参照了Tense Logic中的Lin.Z系统,将其转化为动态Lin.Z系统,在其中添加了参数化处理.该参数化的处理是基于动作执行的,主要工作在动作指数的数值化和函数化两个方面,其结果体现了时态数据库中规则生存周期和“Now”节点的一些特点以及知识表达和解决方法,研究结果将对后续时态知识表达和时态数据库查询语言的研究起到积极的作用.     

共享数据库平台中的时态数据处理研究

对共享数据库系统的时态数据问题进行了研究。给出了该系统的时态数据模型,在此基础上定义了该时态数据的业务逻辑,描述了时态数据库查询的表示模式,最后详细介绍了如何通过快照和差异视图抽取时态数据。并给出了上述方法的应用场景。     

HBase的时态语义处理机制和时态查询语言

国家自然科学基金项目HBase(Historicl Data and Knowledge Base System)是一个处理历史性数据与知识的数据库系统,它拥有基本的时态查询操作。本文介绍了在关系数据模型基础上增加时态语义而得到的HBase数据结构,并讨论它的时态查询语言HBASE/T的主要技术,如:WHEN子句,时态函数、区间比较、时态查询等。     

Integrated Video and Text for Content-based Access to Video Databases

This paper introduces a new approach to realize video databases. The approach consists of a VideoText data model based on free text annotations associated with logical video segments and a corresponding query language. Traditional database techniques are inadequate for exploiting queries on unstructured data such as video, supporting temporal queries, and ranking query results according to their relevance to the query. In this paper, we propose to use information retrieval techniques to provide such features and to extend the query language to accommodate interval queries that are particularly suited to video data. Algorithms are provided to show how user queries are evaluated. Finally, a generic and modular video database architecture which is based on VideoText data model is described.     

TQuery: a context-sensitive temporal query language.

Users of electronic medical databases request pertinent information by recasting their clinical questions into a formal database query language. Because the query language is the user's only access to the data, the query language must be powerful enough to enable users to express their data requirements. However, a competing need is for the query language to be restrictive enough so that queries can have unambiguous semantics and the query processor can generate correct answers. We describe a query language, called TQuery , that was designed specifically to formulate database queries that are dependent on temporal and contextual relationships. TQuery specifications express contextual constraints without the need to explicitly reference calendar dates. TQuery is the database query language used to retrieve patient data from an object-oriented electronic patient medical-record system called the temporal network (TNET). TNET and TQuery were developed to support the real-time temporal reasoning and representation needs of a LISP workstation-based medical expert system.     

时态演绎数据库—模型与查询语言

时态演绎数据库是引入有效时间、事务时间概念的演绎数据库,能比较真实地反映现实世界的现象和发展状况,因此能满足现在的许多应用,如规划、决策支持系统、医疗信息系统等,因为这些应用不仅需要当前的数据,也需要历史数据     

A comparison of two approaches to utilizing XML in parametric databases for temporal data

The parametric data model captures an object in terms of a single tuple. This feature eliminates unnecessary self-join operations to combine tuples scattered in a temporal relation. Despite this advantage, this model is relatively difficult to implement on top of relational databases because the sizes of attributes are unfixed. Since data boundaries are not problematic in XML, XML can be an elegant solution to implement parametric databases for temporal data. There are two approaches to implementing parametric databases using XML: (1) a native XML database with XQuery engine, and (2) an XML storage with a temporal query language. To determine which approach is appropriate in parametric databases, we consider four questions: the effectiveness of XML in modeling temporal data, the applicability of XML query languages, the user-friendliness of the query languages, and system performances of two approaches. By evaluating the four questions, we show that the latter approach is more appropriate to utilizing XML in parametric databases.     

关于自然语言数据库更新模型问题研究

一个完全的自然语言数据库的存取通常需要既支持查询,也需要支持更新。近几年来,在支持自然语言数据库查询问题的研究上虽然已做了很多工作,但在支持自然语言数据库更新问题的研究上所做的工作却甚少。本文介绍了一种支持自然语言数据库更新的现实世界模型,其目的是设计一个易于移植到不同数据库以及不同DBMS上的系统。     

Database query languages and functional logic programming

Functional logic programming is a paradigm which integrates functional and logic programming. It is based on the use of rewriting rules for defining programs, and rewriting for goal solving. In this context, goals, usually, consist of equality (and, sometimes, inequality) constraints, which are solved in order to obtain answers, represented by means of substitutions. On the other hand, database programming languages involve a data model, a data definition language and, finally, a query language against the data defined according to the data model. To use functional logic programming as a database programming language, (1) we will propose a data model involving the main features adopted from functional logic programming (for instance, handling of partial and infinite data), (2) we will use conditional rewriting rules as data definition language, and finally, (3) we will deal with equality and inequality constraints as query language. Moreover, as most database systems, (4) we will propose an extended relational calculus and algebra, which can be used as alternative query languages in this framework. Finally, (5) we will prove that three alternative query languages are equivalent.     

Transportable natural language database update

Natural language database access requires support of both query and update capabilities. Although a great deal of research effort has gone to support natural language database query, little effort has gone to support update. We describe a model of action that supports natural language database update, as well as query, and the implementation of a system that supports the model. A major goal of this research is to design a system that is easily transportable both to different database domains and different database management systems.     

Versioning and configuration management in an object-oriented data model

Many database applications require the storage and manipulation of different versions of data objects. To satisfy the diverse needs of these applications, current database systems support versioning at a very low level. This article demonstrates that application-independent versioning can be supported at a significantly higher level. In particular, we extend the EXTRA data model and EXCESS query language so that configurations can be specified conceptually and non-procedurally. We also show how version sets can be viewed multidimensionally, thereby allowing configurations to be expressed at a higher level of abstraction. The resulting model integrates and generalizes ideas, in CAD systems, CASE systems, and temporal databases.