Many papers related to Constraint Databases (CDBs) theories
exist, including proposals that present frameworks for the treatment
of constraints as a new data type. Our proposal presents a new way
of storing and manipulating constraints as a usual data, and of making
queries about the constraint variables derived from an Object-Relational
Constraint Database (ORCDB). In this work, the constraints stored in
an ORCDB are only polynomial equality constraints. The proposal is
based on Gr¨obner bases, constraint consistency and constraint optimisation
techniques. Most works in CDB use spatial-temporal data as a case
study, however this work presents an emergent engineering domain, that
of fault diagnosis.Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología DPI2003-07146-C02-0
