Advances in Database Technology - EDBT '94

The object management group standardization of object technology.- Databases in distributed systems: The new frontier.- Type derivation using the projection operation.- Subsumption between queries to object-oriented databases.- Composite-object views in relational DBMS: An implementation perspective.- Matrix relation for statistical database management.- Deductive database support for data visualization.- Subsumption-free bottom-up evaluation of logic programs with partially instantiated data structures.- Schema equivalence in heterogeneous systems: Bridging theory and practice.- Virtual schemas and bases.- Role-based query processing in multidatabase systems.- Content routing for distributed information servers.- A unified approach to concurrency control and transaction recovery.- Algorithms for flexible space management in transaction systems supporting fine-granularity locking.- Indexing alternatives for multiversion locking.- A rule-based approach for the design and implementation of information systems.- On behavioral schema evolution in object-oriented databases.- Representing and using performance requirements during the development of information systems.- A model-theoretic semantics of the multilevel relational model.- On the semantics of (Bi)temporal variable databases.- Correctness of ISA hierarchies in Object-Oriented database schemas.- Power efficient filtering of data on air.- Video information contents and architecture.- Optimizing storage of objects on mass storage systems with robotic devices.- On the estimation of join result sizes.- DBJ - A dynamic balancing hash join algorithm in multiprocessor database systems.- Tabu search optimization of large join queries.- The implementation and performance evaluation of the ADMS query optimizer: Integratingquery result caching and matching.- Optimization of nested queries in a complex object model.- A multi-threaded architecture for prefetching in object bases.- Supporting full-text information retrieval with a persistent object store.- Bit-sliced signature files for very large text databases on a parallel machine architecture.- Schemas for telling stories in medical records.