@inproceedings{e89f8f98abed4a57b29ff12a355eb48a,
title = "OODB path-method generator (PMG) using precomputed access relevance",
abstract = "A path-method is used as a mechanism in object-oriented databases (OODBs) to retrieve or to update information relevant to one class that is stored with some other class. A path-method is a method which traverses from one class through a chain of connections between classes to access information at another class. It is a difficult task for a user to write path-methods, because it may require comprehensive knowledge of many classes of the conceptual schema, while a typical user has often incomplete or even inconsistent knowledge of the schema. In this paper we discuss the Path-Method Generator (PMG) system based on precomputed access relevance, which generates path-methods automatically according to a naive user's requests. Our experiments show that the traversal algorithm of PMG is a very successful tool for aiding the user with the difficult task of querying and updating a large OODB.",
author = "Ashish Mehta and James Geller and Yehoshua Perl and Erich Neuhold",
year = "1993",
doi = "10.1145/170088.170436",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "0897916263",
series = "Proc 2 Int Conf Inf Knowl Manage",
publisher = "Publ by ACM",
pages = "596--605",
booktitle = "Proc 2 Int Conf Inf Knowl Manage",
note = "Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ; Conference date: 01-11-1993 Through 05-11-1993",
}