An abstract model of the object-oriented DBMS

In his research the author is looking into the cooperation of methodology, language, and database in the design of object-oriented systems which are to be realized in an object-oriented programming language using an object-oriented database system (OODBMS). The focus is on some of the differences between traditional object-oriented design and object-oriented database design. For this purpose a small formal model of a contemporary OODBMS is built. This model describes abstractions of the most important data structures of OODBMS and their associated functionality. Based on both a pragmatic and a theoretic understanding of the architecture of contemporary OODBMSs, the author aims at presenting some of the issues to be considered in object-oriented database design such as: object management, object retrieval, and concurrency.<>