This volume contains the proceedings of the eleventh British National Conference on Databases, held at Keele University, England. A dominant themein the volume is the provision of the means to enhance the capabilities of databases to handle information that has a rich semantic structure. A major research question is how to achieve such a semantic scale-up without sacrificing performance. There are currently two main paradigms within which it is possible to propose answers to this question, deduction-oriented and object-oriented. Both paradigms are well represented in this collection, with the balance in the direction of the deductive approach, which is followed by both the invited papers, by Michael Freeston from the European Computer-Industry Research Centre in Munich and Carlo Zaniolo from the University of California at Los Angeles. In addition, the volume contains 13 full papers selected from a total of36 submissions.
Author(s): Michael Freeston (auth.), Michael Frederick Worboys, Anna Frances Grundy (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 696
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1993
Language: English
Commentary: (add ocr)
Pages: 278
Tags: Database Management
Begriffsverzeichnis: a concept index....Pages 1-22
On the unification of active databases and deductive databases....Pages 23-39
Semantic constraints in a medical information system....Pages 40-57
A methodology for semantically enriching interoperable databases....Pages 58-75
Distributed databases tied with string....Pages 76-92
Viewing objects....Pages 93-110
Function materialization through object versioning in object-oriented databases....Pages 111-128
A C++ database interface based on the Entity-Relationship approach....Pages 129-146
Object-oriented database methodology — State of the art....Pages 147-161
Deductive databases with conditional facts....Pages 162-175
A deductive object-oriented database for data intensive application development....Pages 176-198
Storage and retrieval of first-order terms using a relational database....Pages 199-219
Principles of implementing historical databases in RDBMS....Pages 220-237
Integrity constraint enforcement in the functional database language PFL....Pages 238-257
Implementation of a version model for artists using extended relational technology....Pages 258-276
