© The Author, 2005. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Original Articles |
Relational Databases with Ordered Relations
Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Pod Vodárenskou v
í 2, 182 07 Prague 8, Czech Republic. E-mail: radned{at}seznam.cz
The paper1 deals with expressing preferences in the framework of the relational data model. Preferences have usually a form of a partial ordering. Therefore the question arises how to provide the relational data model with such an ordering.
Key Words: relational database model, preference, partial ordering, relational algebra operation, aggregation function, arithmetic
Received 28 November 2004.