Grady Booch, Object-oriented Analysis and Design with Applications , 2nd ed., Benjamin Cummings, 1994. Rajiv Gupta and Ellis Horowitz, Object Oriented Databases with Applications to CASE, Networks, and VLSI CAD, Prentice Hall, 1991. We plan to cover a number of the following topics in this part of the course. It may not be possible to cover all of them. The most recent advances dealing with UML may be covered.
Poet have less written up in research literature.
It combines the strength of the relational DBMSs with the advantages of handling complex data in the Object-oriented systems. Students are encouraged to pick papers on other object-relational work and particularly on applications illustrating the utility of this approach. This topic has seen more work recently, particularly for better user interfaces and information retrieval. This is a formal topic and needs more work. See works of Beeri, Lenzerini, Thalheim etc.