Advances in Databases

Schema integration meta-knowledge classification and reuse.- View mechanism for schema evolution in object-oriented DBMS.- An active rule language for ROCK & ROLL.- Integrity constraints in multiversion databases.- The development of a semantic integrity constraint subsystem for a distributed database (SICSDD).- Understanding the tension between transition rules and confidentiality.- SPEAR: Extending ER for dynamic behaviour and refinement.- Speeding up knowledge discovery in large relational databases by means of a new discretization algorithm.- Integration of load measurement parameters into the cost evaluation of database queries.- High performance OO traversals in monet.- A modular compiler architecture for a data manipulation language.- Querying graph databases using a functional language extended with second order facilities.- SQL+i: Adding temporal indeterminacy to the database language SQL.- Pearls, swine and sow's ears: Interface research inside a multinational bank.- Dissemination-based information systems: Your data may be where you least expect it.- Microsoft database technologies - An inside view.- Predicate-maintained queries: An active OODBMS for financial applications.- Universal data mangagement.