This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 1993. Traditionally the objective of the DEXA conferences is to serve as an international forum for the discussion and exchange of research results and practical experinece among theoreticians and professionals working in the field of database and artificial intelligence technologies. Despite the fact that in the conference title the applications aspect is mentioned explicitly, the theoretical and the practical points of view in the field are well-balanced in the program of DEXA'93. The growing importance of the conference series is outlined by the remarkably high number of 269 submissions and by the support given by renown organizations. DEXA'93 is held for the first time outside the former GDR in an East-European country, and is essentially contributing to the advancement of the East-West scientific cooperation in the field of database and AI systems. This proceedings contains the 78 contributed papers carefully selected by an international program committee with thesupport of a high number of subreferees. The volume is organized in sectionson data models, distributed databases, advanced database aspects, database optimization and performance evaluation, spatial and geographic databases, expert systems and knowledge engineering, legal systems, other database and artificial intelligence applications, software engineering, and hypertext/hypermedia and user interfaces.
Author(s): Ralph Busse, Adrian Müller, Erich J. Neuhold (auth.), Vladimír Mařík, Jiří Lažanský, Roland R. Wagner (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 720
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 776
Tags: Database Management; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Business Information Systems
Information handling — A challenge for databases and expert systems....Pages 1-23
Context versions in an object-oriented model....Pages 24-35
Towards class-less object models for engineering design applications....Pages 36-47
Semantic relativism in conceptual modeling....Pages 48-55
Animation support for a conceptual modelling language....Pages 56-67
A unifying model of data, metadata and context....Pages 68-79
Information brokers: Sharing knowledge in a heterogeneous distributed system....Pages 80-91
A customized multidatabase transaction management strategy....Pages 92-103
Interoperability between a distributed system and a database system....Pages 104-115
Reservation commitment and its use in multidatabase systems....Pages 116-121
Predict query processing cost in a distributed database system....Pages 122-133
CoBase: A cooperative query answering facility for database systems....Pages 134-145
“Duplicate deletion in a ring connected, shared-nothing, parallel database system”....Pages 146-153
On temporal-fuzziness in temporal Fuzzy databases....Pages 154-165
Object-based schema integration for heterogeneous databases: A logical approach....Pages 166-180
Heterogeneous multilevel transaction management with multiple subtransactions....Pages 181-188
Inheritance conflicts in object-oriented systems....Pages 189-200
Managing derived data in intelligent database systems: An implementation study....Pages 201-212
An integrated calculation model for discovering functional relations from databases....Pages 213-220
On the maintenance of implication integrity constraints....Pages 221-232
REFLEX active database model: Application of petri-nets....Pages 233-240
Road accident analysis using a functional database language....Pages 241-252
Database performance evaluation a methodological approach....Pages 253-264
Design and implementation of a DBMS performance assessment tool....Pages 265-276
Modifying database queries and error constraints....Pages 277-288
Performance evaluation system for object stores....Pages 289-300
An optimization method of data communication and control for parallel execution of SQL queries....Pages 301-312
Developing a database system for time-critical applications....Pages 313-324
Object-oriented querying of existing relational databases....Pages 325-336
A probabilistic spatial data model....Pages 337-348
Query processing of geometric objects with free form boundaries in spatial databases....Pages 349-360
Brain data base (BDB)....Pages 361-364
Integrating classes and relations to model and query geographical databases....Pages 365-372
Towards cooperativeness in geographic databases....Pages 373-376
GeO 2 : Object-oriented contribution for a geographical DBMS ?....Pages 377-383
GemCode: An expert system generating mnemonic codes for data elements and data items....Pages 384-395
ALEXSYS — A prototype knowledge based expert system for the quality assurance of high pressure die castings....Pages 396-400
Viewpoints — Facilitating expert systems for multiple users....Pages 401-412
Improving Shafer-Logan's algorithm for handling hierarchical evidence....Pages 413-423
From low-level to high-level operations in expert systems....Pages 424-427
Corpora as expert knowledge domains: The Oxford advanced learner's dictionary....Pages 428-435
Maintenance of knowledge bases....Pages 436-447
Using candidate space structure to propose the next measurement in model based diagnosis....Pages 448-456
Decomposition of four component items....Pages 457-460
Intelligent inference for debugging concurrent systems....Pages 461-469
Sharing temporal knowledge by multiple agents....Pages 470-473
Querying and exploring large knowledge bases....Pages 474-477
Managing text objectively....Pages 478-485
Legal expert system KONTERM — Automatic representation of document structure and contents....Pages 486-497
Matrim, an expert system on marital law....Pages 498-501
Contradiction and confirmation....Pages 502-513
Meta-reasoning in law: a computational model....Pages 514-522
The application of Kripke-type structures to regional development programs....Pages 523-528
Data management tools for genomic applications: A progress report....Pages 529-540
Resolution of constraint inconsistency with the aim to provide support in anaesthesia....Pages 541-552
An object-oriented implementation for a semantic system (CANDID)....Pages 553-564
Distributed schema management in a cooperation network of autonomous agents....Pages 565-576
A distributed AI system for job shop control....Pages 577-582
Expert system for production planning of perishable goods....Pages 583-592
An expert system as a manager in the application of production planning and control software in CIM environments....Pages 593-604
Composition and dependency relationships in production information system design....Pages 605-610
Vehicle Transactions....Pages 611-614
An approach to image retrieval for image databases....Pages 615-626
Facilitatory process for contrast detection....Pages 627-630
Object-oriented database management systems for construction of CASE environments....Pages 631-642
Summary data representations in application developments....Pages 643-654
Reusable process chunks....Pages 655-666
From analysis to design in a deductive and object-oriented environment....Pages 667-672
A case study for an open CASE system: The TROLL light development environment....Pages 673-676
Meta data model for database design....Pages 677-680
Extending PCTE with object-oriented capabilities....Pages 681-684
A new hypermedia data model....Pages 685-696
Linearisation schemata for hypertext....Pages 697-708
HyperPATH/O2: Integrating hypermedia systems with object-oriented database systems....Pages 709-720
Integrating knowledge-based hypertext and database for task-oriented access to documents....Pages 721-732
Reengineering of user interfaces for the migration of database applications....Pages 733-745
User interface of knowledge based-DSS development environment, some further developments....Pages 746-755
A highly-customisable schema meta-visualisation system for object-oriented (O-O) database schemas - overview....Pages 756-759
Walkthrough using animation database system move....Pages 760-765
