BASIC NOTIONS AND RATIONALE OF THE INTEGRATION OF UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT AND OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES
RITA DE CALUWE, Nancy Van Gyseghem, Valerie V. Cross · Advances in fuzzy systems · 1997
The field of databases is a very vast field which has been studied by many researchers for many years. Countless books and papers have been published that reflect the increasing importance of this field. The present book contributes to this research by focusing on the integration of the object-oriented database theory with the theory of uncertainty modelling, which is another rapidly developing field. Combining the advantages of both theories permits the design of databases which are semantically far more powerful and user-friendly than the traditional ones. This chapter of the book explains the reasons for this and introduces the basic concepts an terminology of the underlying theories.