论文信息 - Are the terms “version” and “variant” orthogonal to one another?

Are the terms “version” and “variant” orthogonal to one another?

Versions and variants are an important issue in industrial DB-applications like CAD/CAM. It is argued that a clean distinction between both terms is of great importance.

Hartmut Wedekind

[1] Bernhard Mitschang,et al. Flexible Entwurfsdatenverwaltung für CAD-Frameworks: Konzepte, Realisierung und Bewertung , 1993, BTW.

[2] Klaus R. Dittrich,et al. Version Support for Engineering Database Systems , 1988, IEEE Trans. Software Eng..

[3] Randy H. Katz,et al. Toward a unified framework for version modeling in engineering databases , 1990, CSUR.

[4] Peter Z. Revesz. On the semantics of theory change: arbitration between old and new information , 1993, PODS '93.

[5] David Beech,et al. Generalized version control in an object-oriented database , 1988, Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on Data Engineering.