TY - SER AU - Mehta, Ashish [y otros] TI - The OODB Path-Method Generator (PMG) Using Access Weights and Precomputed Access Relevance KW - OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES KW - PATH-METHOD KW - OODB QUERIES KW - ACCESS WEIGHT KW - ACCESS RELEVANCE KW - TRAVERSAL ALGORITHMS N1 - A path-method is used as a mechanism in object-oriented databases (OODBs) to retrieve or to update information relevant to one class that is not stored with that class but with some other class. A path-method is a method which traverses from one class through a chain of connections between classes and accesses information at another class. However, it is a difficult task for a casual user or even an application programmer to write path-methods to facilitate queries ER -