• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1993.04a
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• pp.10-17
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• 1993

An object-oriented database was developed as a framesork for integrating into ergonomic interface models data for workplace modelling and ergonomic evaluation functions as well as basic anthropometric data required to construct a man model. In order to develop an ergonomic man model representing operators that interact with his working evnironments, not only anthro- pometric data but also efficient handling of such data and accurate representation of the work- space are needed as a prerequistite to proper ergonomic evaluation. Most existing man models are not, however, capable of fully utilizing these data due to the lack of a generallized formalism of data handling, which results in system performance degradation or a potential difficulty when the system is upgraded. In this research, these three sets of data with distinct characteristics were incorporated into a comon integrated database required to manipulate an ergonomic interface model fully coupled with the man model itself. An object- oriented scheme was sued for the database design Specifically, UniSQL/X, an object-oriented database management system and the X-window system on SPARC workstation were used for implementation. The ergonomic man model generated from the object-oriented database is found to possess great flexibility and performance compared to existing ergonomic interface models or ergonomic CAD systems.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.9D no.2
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• pp.227-234
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• 2002

When processing a query in a conventional database systems, a set of facts or tuples are usually returned as an answer. This also applies to object -oriented database where a set of objects is returned. Deductive database systems, however, provide the opportunity to obtain the answer of a query as a set of formulas, thereby reduce the costs to process the query, and represent its "intensional answers" in a more compact way independently of the database state. In this paper, by introducing rules info the object-oriented database systems and integrating the intensional query processing of deductive database systems into talc object-oriented database systems, we make it possible not only to answer incomplete queries which are not able to be answered in conventional object-oriented database systems, but also to express the answer-set abstractly as the names of classes, which provides us better understanding of the answer.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.9D no.2
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• pp.195-202
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• 2002

Information exchange on XML such as B2B electronic commerce is spreading. Therefore the systematic and stable management mechanism for storing the exchanged information is needed. For this goal there are many research activities for connection between XML application and relational database. But because XML data have hierarchical structures and relational database can store only flat-structured data, we need to store XML data in object-oriented database that support hierarchical structure. Accordingly the modeling methodology for storing XML data in object-oriented database is needed. In this parer, the transforming methods based on object model from XML DTD to object-oriented database schema is proposed. For this, we first introduce mapping methods that map XML DTD to object model and then we propose soem methods that transform from the object model to object-oriented database schema.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.13-34
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• 1999

Building a knowledge base effectively has been an important research area in the expert systems field. A variety of approaches have been studied including rules, semantic networks, and frames to represent the knowledge base for expert systems. As the size and complexity of the knowledge base get larger and more complicated, the integration of knowledge based with database technology cecomes more important to process the large amount of data. However, relational database management systems show many limitations in handing the complicated human knowledge due to its simple two dimensional table structure. In this paper, we propose Object-Oriented Knowledge Store (OOKS), a knowledge base model on the basis of a frame sturcture using an object-oriented database. In the proposed model, managing rules for inferencing and facts about objects in one uniform structure, knowledge and data can be tightly coupled and the performance of reasoning can be improved. For building a knowledge base, a knowledge script file representing rules and facts is used and the script file is transferred into a frame structure in database systems. Specifically, designing a frame structure in the database model as it is, it can facilitate management and utilization of knowledge in expert systems. To test the appropriateness of the proposed knowledge base model, a prototype system has been developed using a commercial ODBMS called ObjectStore and C++ programming language.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.745-756
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• 1996

In this paper, the design and implementation of VODS is described. VODS is an object-oriented database de-sign support system. VODS supports the whole database design steps according to the EOMT(extended OMT). EOMT as an object- oriented database design methodology is deviced by extending the object model of OMT(Object Modeling Technique) for supporting information navigations to manipulate hyperemia objects. Database designers can do the whole design steps by clicking mouse buttons on the appropriate icons or commands from the initial screen mode.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.670-684
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• 1997

Electronic socuments described in SGML DTD are effedtive to manage with the object-oriented database. To do that,first of all, a database design for SGML documents must be preceeded. In this paper, we suggest an object-oriented meta schema for managing SGML DTDs, which describes logical structures of electrinic socuments. We also propose a method a methof to manage electronic documents in object-oriented databases through the application database schema which is synamically create from the meta schema.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.251-267
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• 2003

In order to satisfy the needs of an intelligent information system, it is necessary to have more intelligent query processing in an object-oriented database. In this paper, we present a method to apply intelligent query processing in object-oriented databases using deductive approach. Using this method, we generate intelligent answers to represent the answer-set abstractly for a given query in object-oriented databases. Our approach consists of few stages: rule representation, rule reformation pre-resolution, and resolution. In rule representation, a set of deductive rules is generated based on an object-oriented database schema. In rule reformation, we eliminate the recursion in rules. In pre-resolution, rule transformation is done to get unique intensional literals. In resolution, we use SLD-resolution to generate intensional answers.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.56-66
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• 1998

The primary goal of the database design is to organize a large amount of data effectively in users and systems view point. Effective design of a database is very important for processing applications efficiently. In this paper, we discuss database design for an urban geographic information system that effectively maintains the cadastral and planimetric information. We first collect and analyze the requirements for the target urban geographic information system and then perform database design for these requirements. Our database design is based on the object-oriented approach that has rich expressive power and good reusability in comparison with the traditional relational approach. Especially, we employ the OMT, one of the most widely-used object-oriented models. We expect that our result would be helpful in building large databases for urban geographic information systems practically.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.7
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• pp.1665-1680
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• 1997

The Entity-Relationship (E-R) model is widely used not only to increase understanding between user and designer, but also to model the relationship of real world data appropriately when designing database system in many application areas. It should be then transformed into an Object-Oriented database model which gives good merits to represent and manipulate data efficiently. Therefore, a method of transforming an E-R model into an Object-Oriented database model should be studied, but without losing any semantics of concept for the E-R model. This paper not only deals with transformation rules taking as input the elements of E-R model and delivering the elements of an Object-Oriented database model, but also improves the concept of generalization and aggregation inheritance. The paper also presents a method of transformation of relationship depending on these rules. The proposed method that obtains Object-Oriented database schema from an E-R model with preserving the properties of the E-R model is shown with examples. The method presented is able to be used to the logical database design.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1993.04a
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• pp.79-85
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• 1993

An integrated structural design system can define and process complex design information that occurs in each of the design stages for flexible cooperation. It can also reduce human error on sequential design steps: preliminary design, analysis and detailed design. Therefore, it's very important to have consistent semantic expression and procedure for structural design information that has complex relationships. In this study, we introduce the object-oriented concepts and object-oriented database thechnique that provides high level semantic expression in order to develop an integrated structural design system.