Title : 
SQTL: A Preliminary Proposal for a Temporal-to-Temporal Query Language
         
        
            Author : 
Bidoit, Nicole ; Objois, Matthieu
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A temporal database can be represented as a finite sequence of relational instances. Queries over such temporal instances usually map the input sequences to relation instances. Motivated by emerging applications, we are investigating a new type of queries over temporal instances, called t2t queries (temporal-to-temporal queries). The issue is to develop languages able to define mappings from temporal instances to temporal instances. The paper proposes and investigates two types of t2t query languages: pointwise languages and SQTL languages.
         
        
            Keywords : 
query languages; temporal databases; SQTL languages; pointwise languages; t2t queries; temporal database; temporal-to-temporal query language; Application software; Computer science; Data mining; Database languages; Logic; Natural languages; Proposals; Relational databases; Streaming media; Video recording; Temporal databases; temporal query languages.;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Temporal Representation and Reasoning, 14th International Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Alicante
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-0-7695-2836-6
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TIME.2007.60