SIGMOD 1983: Engineering Design Applications

Session 1: Current Industrial Environments

• H. R. Johnson, J. E. Schweitzer, E. R. Warkentine: A DBMS Facility for Handling Structured Engineering Entities. 3-11
• J. C. Emond, G. Marechal: Experience in Building ARCADE, A Computer-Aided Design System Based on a Relational DBMS. 13-22

Session 2: Application-Oriented Systems I

• Kung-Chao Chu, John P. Fishburn, Peter Honeyman, Y. Edmund Lien: Vdd - A VLSI Design Database System. 25-37
• Dennis McLeod, K. Narayanaswamy, K. V. Bapa Rao: An Approach to Information Management for CAD/VLSI Applications. 39-50

Session 3: Application-Oriented Systems II

• Michel A. Melkanoff, Qiming Chen: An Experimental Database Which Combines Static and Dynamic Capabilities. 53-61
• Michael L. Powell, Mark A. Linton: Database Support for Programming Environments. 63-70

Session 4: Transaction and Concurrency

• Ali R. Kutay, Charles M. Eastman: Transaction Management in Engineering Databases. 73-80
• Thomas Neumann: On Representing the Design Information in a Common Database. 81-87
• Wang-Chuan Tsai: Cooperative Update Synchronization for Local Network Database Systems. 89-95
• Christopher N. G. Dampney: Precedency Control and Other Semantic Integrity Issues in a Workbench Database. 97-104

Session 5: Extension to the Relational Model

• Michael Stonebraker, W. Bradley Rubenstein, Antonin Guttman: Application of Abstract Data Types and Abstract Indices to CAD Data Bases. 107-113
• Raymond A. Lorie, Wil Plouffe: Complex Objects and Their Use in Design Transactions. 115-121
• Y. C. Lee, K. S. Fu: A CSG Based DBMS for CAD/CAM and its Supporting Query Language. 123-130

Panel Session 6: Database Issues in Different Industries