This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 14, held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, in July 1996.
The 13 revised papers presented in the book in full version together with two invited talks and three industrial abstracts were selected from a total of 47 submissions involving authors from 21 countries. The papers included are written by researchers and professionals from academia and industry; the volume is organized in topical sections on object-oriented databases, integrity issues, database performance and optimization, and database languages.
Author(s): R. M. Duwairi, N. J. Fiddian, W. A. Gray (auth.), Ron Morrison, Jessie Kennedy (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1094
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 239
Tags: Database Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Schema integration meta-knowledge classification and reuse....Pages 1-17
View mechanism for schema evolution in object-oriented DBMS....Pages 18-35
An active rule language for ROCK & ROLL....Pages 36-55
Integrity constraints in multiversion databases....Pages 56-73
The development of a semantic integrity constraint subsystem for a distributed database (SICSDD)....Pages 74-91
Understanding the tension between transition rules and confidentiality....Pages 92-106
SPEAR: Extending ER for dynamic behaviour and refinement....Pages 107-123
Speeding up knowledge discovery in large relational databases by means of a new discretization algorithm....Pages 124-133
Integration of load measurement parameters into the cost evaluation of database queries....Pages 134-151
High performance OO traversals in monet....Pages 152-169
A modular compiler architecture for a data manipulation language....Pages 170-188
Querying graph databases using a functional language extended with second order facilities....Pages 189-203
SQL+i: Adding temporal indeterminacy to the database language SQL....Pages 204-221
Pearls, swine and sow's ears: Interface research inside a multinational bank....Pages 222-229
Dissemination-based information systems: Your data may be where you least expect it....Pages 230-230
Microsoft database technologies — An inside view....Pages 231-231
Predicate-maintained queries: An active OODBMS for financial applications....Pages 232-232
Universal data mangagement....Pages 233-233
