Object-Oriented Databases

Invited Papers: On Types and FOOPS (J.A. Goguen, D. Wolfram), Object-Orientation and Knowledge Representation (J. Mylopoulos), What is an Object, after all? (A. Sernadas, H.-D. Ehrich), The Third-Generation Database System Manifesto: A Brief Retrospection (M. Stonebraker). Presented Papers: GemStone Visual Schema Designer: A Tool for Object-Oriented Database Design (J. Almarode, T.L. Anderson), A Powerful Tool for Object-Oriented Manipulation (K. Benecke), FOOD: Supporting Explicit Relations in a Fully Object-Oriented Database (S.E. Bratsberg), Database Design Problems with Object-Oriented Databases (C. Britton), Database Types: A Plea for Simplicity: A Naive Semantics of Subtyping (S. Chaudhuri), Type Restrictions and Method Interfaces in Object-Oriented Database Programming (I. Choi, M.V. Mannino, V.P. Tseng), Semantic-rich User-defined Relationship as a Main Constructor in Object-Oriented Databases (O. Diaz, P.M.D. Gray), Using a Database System to Implement a Debugger (A. Doucet, P. Pfeffer), Proof-Theoretic Semantics of Object-Oriented Specification Constructs (J. Fiadeiro, C. Sernadas, T. Maibaum, G. Saake), Using Active Objects for Query Processing (R. Jungclaus, G. Saake, C. Sernadas), Extending the Object-Oriented Paradigm to Support Relationships and Constraints (R. Nassif, Yuping Qiu, Jianhua Zhu), Metaclasses in Object-Oriented Databases (N.W. Paton, O. Diaz), A Synthesis of Complex Objects and Object-Orientation (M.H. Scholl, H.-J. Schek), Translating Constraints to Rules in Context: A Constraint Explanation Tool (S.D. Urban, M. Desiderio), An Object-Oriented Approach in a Multimedia Database Project (H. Weigand), Equational Specification of Dynamic Objects (R. Wieringa), The Attribute Hypergraph Model - Toward a Unified View of Software Objects (Ying Yang, F. Hunt), Incomplete Information in Object-Oriented Databases (R. Zicari). Industry Panel: The Direction of Object-Oriented Technology in the Marketplace (S. Khosla, Chairman). Appendix: Third-Generation Database System Manifesto: The Committee for Advanced DBMS Function (M. Stonebraker, L.A. Rowe, B. Lindsay, J. Gray, M. Carey, M. Brodie, Ph. Bernstein, D. Beech).