The Importance of IS Management

Prentice Hall, Inc.

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nDesigned to widen the use of DB to new kinds of applications: CAD, medical applications, knowledge representation for AI.

nRetains traditional DBMS features and add two new concepts.

nObject management: The mgt. of complex kinds of data, e.g., multimedia and procedures

nKnowledge Management: the management of large numbers of complex rules for reasoning

nObjects can be of any type: e.g., spreadsheet, video clip, photograph.

nA collection of objects is an object-base or object-oriented database.

Four Data Models

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