4. EDBT 1994: Cambridge, UK

Matthias Jarke, Janis A. Bubenko Jr., Keith G. Jeffery (Eds.): Advances in Database Technology - EDBT'94. 4th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 28-31, 1994, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 779 Springer 1994, ISBN 3-540-57818-8

Title, Foreword, Sponsorship, Organization, Program Commitee, Additional Referees.

Invited Papers

Christopher M. Stone:
The Object Management Group Standardization of Object Technology (Abstract). 1
Andrew Herbert:
Databases in Distributed Systems: The New Frontier (Extended Abstract). 2-6

Rakesh Agrawal, Linda G. DeMichiel:
Type Derivation Using the Projection Operation. 7-14
Martin Buchheit, Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Werner Nutt, Martin Staudt:
Subsumption between Queries to Object-Oriented Databases. 15-22
Hamid Pirahesh, Bernhard Mitschang, Norbert Südkamp, Bruce G. Lindsay:
Composite-Object Views in Relational DBMS: An Implementation Perspective. 23-30

Rosine Cicchetti, Lotfi Lakhal:
Matrix-Relation for Statistical Database Management. 31-44
Mariano P. Consens, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Dimitra Vista:
Deductive Database Support for Data Visualization. 45-58
Zoltan Somogyi, David B. Kemp, James Harland, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao:
Subsumption-Free Bottom-up Evaluation of Logic Programs with Partially Instantiated Data Structures. 59-72

Renée J. Miller, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Raghu Ramakrishnan:
Schema Equivalence in Heterogeneous Systems: Bridging Theory and Practice (Extended Abstract). 73-80
Cassio Souza dos Santos, Serge Abiteboul, Claude Delobel:
Virtual Schemas and Bases. 81-94
Peter Scheuermann, Eugene Inseok Chong:
Role-based Query Processing in Multidatabase Systems. 95-108
Mark A. Sheldon, Andrzej Duda, Ron Weiss, James O'Toole, David K. Gifford:
Content Routing for Distributed Information Servers. 109-122

Gustavo Alonso, Radek Vingralek, Divyakant Agrawal, Yuri Breitbart, Amr El Abbadi, Hans-Jörg Schek, Gerhard Weikum:
A Unified Approach to Concurrency Control and Transaction Recovery (Extended Abstract). 123-130
C. Mohan, Donald J. Haderle:
Algorithms for Flexible Space Management in Transaction Systems Supporting Fine-Granularity Locking. 131-144
Paul M. Bober, Michael J. Carey:
Indexing Alternatives for Multiversion Locking. 145-158

Ilias Petrounias, Pericles Loucopoulos:
A Rule-Based Approach for the Design and Implementation of Information Systems. 159-172
Magdi M. A. Morsi, Shamkant B. Navathe, John Shilling:
On Behavioral Schema Evolution in Object-Oriented Databases. 173-186
Brian A. Nixon:
Representing and Using Performance Requirements During the Development of Information Systems. 187-200

Xiaolei Qian:
A Model-Theoretic Semantics of the Multilevel Relational Model. 201-214
James Clifford, Tomás Isakowitz:
On the Semantics of (Bi)Temporal Variable Databases. 215-230
Anna Formica, Michele Missikoff:
Correctness of ISA Hierarchies in Object-Oriented Database Schemas. 231-244

Tomasz Imielinski, S. Viswanathan, B. R. Badrinath:
Power Efficient Filtering of Data an Air. 245-258
Rune Hjelsvold:
Video Information Contents and Architecture. 259-272
Ling Tony Chen, Doron Rotem:
Optimizing Storage of Objects on Mass Storage Systems with Robotic Devies. 273-286

Arun N. Swami, K. Bernhard Schiefer:
On the Estimation of Join Result Sizes. 287-300
X. Zhao, Roger G. Johnson, Nigel J. Martin:
DBJ - A Dynamic Balancing Hash Join Algorithm in Multiprocessor Database Systems (Extented Abstract). 301-308
Tadeusz Morzy, Maciej Matysiak, Silvio Salza:
Tabu Search Optimization of Large Join Queries. 309-322

Chung-Min Chen, Nick Roussopoulos:
The Implementation and Performance Evaluation of the ADMS Query Optimizer: Integrating Query Result Caching and Matching. 323-336
Hennie J. Steenhagen, Peter M. G. Apers, Henk M. Blanken:
Optimization of Nested Queries in a Complex Object Model. 337-350
Carsten Andreas Gerlhof, Alfons Kemper:
A Multi-Threaded Architecture for Prefetching in Object Bases. 351-364

Eric W. Brown, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, J. Eliot B. Moss:
Supporting Full-Text Information Retrieval with a Persistent Object Store. 365-378
George Panagopoulos, Christos Faloutsos:
Bit-Sliced Signature Files for Very Large Text Databases an a Parallel Machine Architecture. 379-392
Carole A. Goble, Peter Crowther:
Schemas for Telling Stories in Medical Records. 393-406