Materialization: a powerful and ubiquitous pattern
Summary: Materialization is presented as a universal abstraction pattern linking categories to concrete objects. A quasi-formal semantics via is-a/is-of and class/metaclass correspondences yields new inheritance mechanisms, with examples and extensions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Alain Pirotte
- 2. Esteban Zimányi
- 3. David Massart
- 4. Tatiana Yakusheva
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| 6,933 | Consistency of Versions in Object-Oriented Databases | 1990 | VLDB | 4.8878659e-05 |
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