Front matter
1-15
Types for data-oriented languages
Luca Cardelli
16-33
Optimization in a logic based language for knowledge and data intensive applications
Ravi Krishnamurthy and Carlo Zaniolo
34-48
A Prolog interface to a Functional Data Model database
Peter MD Gray, David S Moffat and Norman W Paton
49-75
The processing and evaluation of transitive closure queries
Jiawei Han, Ghassen Qadah and Chinying Chaou
76-91
Supporting semantic rules by a generalized event/trigger mechanism
Angelika M. Kotz, Klaus R. Dittrich and Jutta A. Mulle
92-112
Optimal plan search in a rule-based query optimizer
Ming-Chien Shan
113-133
Information systems design: An expert system approach
C. Cauvet, C. Proix and C. Rolland
134-154
Multi-level transaction management, theoretical art or practical need?
C. Beeri, H.-J. Schek and G. Weikum
155-169
Views and security in distributed database management systems
E. Bertino and L. M. Haas
170-189
An overview of the distributed query system DQS
V. Belcastro, A. Dutkowski, W. Kaminski, M. Kowalewski and C. L. Mallamaci, et al.
190-213
TAILOR, a tool for updating views
Amit P. Sheth, James A. Larson and Evan Watkins
214-230
An intelligent information dictionary for semantic manipulation of relational databases
Stephanie J. Cammarata
231-250
A model of authorization for object-oriented and semantic databases
Fausto Rabitti, Darrell Woelk and Won Kim
251-270
A foundation for evolution from relational to object databases
David Beech
271-293
Col: A logic-based language for complex objects
Serge Abiteboul and Stephane Grumbach
294-308
A universal relation model for nested relations
M. Levene and G. Loizou
309-335
Multilevel trie hashing
W. Litwin, D. Zegour and G. Levy
336-351
Var-page-lru a buffer replacement algorithm supporting different page sizes
Andrea Sikeler
352-363
The twin grid file: A nearly space optimal index structure
Andreas Hutflesz, Hans-Werner Six and Peter Widmayer
364-387
A comparison of concatenated and superimposed code word surrogate files for very large data/knowledge bases
Soon Myoung Chung and P. Bruce Berra
388-413
Filter-based join algorithms on uniprocessor and distributed-memory multiprocessor database machines
Ghassan Z. Qadah
414-427
Placement of replicated items in distributed databases
Amir Milo and Ouri Wolfson
428-442
Optimizing voting-type algorithms for replicated data
Akhil Kumar and Arie Segev
443-468
Quasi-copies: Efficient data sharing for information retrieval systems
Rafael Alonso, Daniel Barbara, Hector Garcia-Molina and Soraya Abad
469-487
Process management and assertion enforcement for a semantic data model
K. Lawrence Chung, Daniel Rios-Zertuche, Brian A. Nixon and John Mylopoulos
488-505
A uniform approach to constraint satisfaction and constraint satisfiability in deductive databases
François Bry, Hendrik Decker and Rainer Manthey
506-527
Geo-relational algebra: A model and query language for geometric database systems
Ralf Hartmut Güting
528-542
An extension of the relational model to support generic intervals
Nikos A. Lorentzos and Roger G. Johnson
543-548
Esprit: Trends & challenges in DB technology
Jack Metthey and José Cotta
549-550
Project session on support for data and knowledge-based applications
Domenico Saccà
551-555
The algres project
S. Geri, S. Crespi-Reghizzi, G. Gottlob, F. Lamperti and L. Lavazza, et al.
556-562
O2, an object-oriented data model
Christophe Lécluse, Philippe Richard and Fernando Velez
563-566
Data base programming tools in the ATLANT language
A. V. Zamulin
567-571
An overview of siderues: A graphical database schema editor for Galileo
A. Albano, L. Alfò, S. Coluccini and R. Orsini
572-577
Towards KBMS for software development: An overview of the DAIDA project
Daida Team
578-582
Entity-situation: A model for the knowledge representation module of a KBMS
Sonia Bergamaschi, Flavio Bonfatti and Claudio Sartori
583-587
TELL-ME: A natural language query system
Serge Himbaut
588-589
Project session on distributed database applications
G. Pelagatti
590-593
PRISMA database machine: A distributed, main-memory approach
Research issues and a preliminary architecture
Peter M. G. Apers, Martin L. Kersten and Hans C. M. Oerlemans
594-599
SABRINA-RT, a distributed DBMS for telecommunications
M. Driouche, Y. Gicquel, B. Kerherve, G. Le Gac and Y. Lepetit, et al.
600-605
A multidatabase system for transnational accounting
Dirk Ellinghaus, Matthias Hallmann, Bernhard Holtkamp and Klaus-Dieter Kreplin
606-615
Multos: a document server for distributed office systems
E. Bertino, F. Rabitti and C. Thanos
616-620
The DURESS project: Extending databases into an open systems architecture
W. Johannsen, W. Lamersdorf, K. Reinhardt and J. W. Schmidt