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Publications

- Ling Liu, R. Zicari, K. Lieberherr, and W. Hursch.
"The Role of Polymorphic Reuse Mechanisms in Schema Evolution
in an Object-oriented Database System.", To appeare
in: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Feb. issue
1997.
Up to date information and enhancement see
here.
- Ling Liu.
"
Adaptive Approach to Schema Design and Evaluation in Object-oriented
Information Systems",
In Proceedings of 14th Object-oriented & Entity
Relationship Conference. Gold Coast, Australia (Dec. 12-15, 1995).
Also available as TR95-20, Department of Computing Science, University
of Alberta.
- Ling Liu.
"
Maintaining Database Consistency in the Presence of Schema Evolution",
In Proceedings of IFIP International Working
Conference on Data Semantics
(DS6), Atlanta (May 30 - June 2 1995).
- Ling Liu.
"
Design and Evaluation Rules for Building Adaptive Schema
in an Object-oriented Database and Knowledge System",
In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management. Washington D.C. (Nov. 1994) pp 329 - 336.
- Ling Liu, R. Zicari, K. Lieberherr, and W. Hursch.
"
Polymorphic Reuse Mechanisms for Object-oriented Database Specifications.",
In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Int. Conf. on Data
Engineering, (Houston, 1994) pp 180-189.
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Ling Liu. "
An Object-centered Approach for Manipulating Hierarchically
Complex Objects",
In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 742: Object
Technologies for Advanced Software (Springer Verlag, 1993) pp194-219.
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Ling Liu. "
A Recursive Object Algebra
based on Aggregation Abstraction
for Complex Objects."
In: Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering .
Vol.11 (1993, North Holland) pp21-60.
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Ling Liu. "
Exploring Semantics in
Aggregation Hierarchy for Object-oriented Databases",
In Proceedings of the 8th Int. Conf. on Data Engineering
Pheonix, Arizona (Feb. 1992) pp116-225.
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Ling Liu and Robert Meersman. "
Extensibility in Object-oriented Database Systems.", In Sprite: An Integrated System for Multimdeia Document Storage and Retrieval in a Technical Documentation Environment (ed.) J. Hoppe (Springer Verlag, 1992).
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Ling Liu. "
Adaptive Schema Design and Evaluation in Object-oriented Information
Systems",
Submitted for publication.
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Ling Liu. "
EVOLVE: Adaptive Specification Techniques for
Object-oriented Software Evolution",
Submitted for publication.
Last Update June 2, 1996
lingliu@cs.ualberta.ca