“…Many proposals have been defined for such a purpose: virtual classes [Abiteboul91,Rundensteiner92,Santos95], view classes [Bertino92,Guerrini97], and so on. However, to the best of our knowledge, only two proposals [Garcia02,Roantree99] have been defined in the ODMG framework because ODMG only has proposed the definition of named queries for that purpose. In our methodology, derived classes are defined using the mechanisms proposed in [Garcia02,Roantree99].…”