This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '94), held in Athens, Greece in September 1994. The 78 papers presented were selected from more than 300 submissions and give a comprehensive view of advanced applications of databases and expert systems. Among the topics covered are object-oriented, temporal, active, geographical, hypermedia and distributed databases, data management, cooperative office applications, object-oriented modelling, industrial applications, conceptual modelling, legal systems, evolving environments, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, advanced querying, medical systems, and CIM.
Author(s): D. Tsichritzis (auth.), Dimitris Karagiannis (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 856
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 814
Tags: Database Management; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Business Information Systems
Research as a catalyst for industrial innovation....Pages 1-1
Peplom d : an object oriented database programming language extended with deductive capabilities....Pages 2-14
Object-oriented database systems: How much SQL do they understand?....Pages 15-26
An Object-Centered Application Development System....Pages 27-36
Flora: A functional-style language for object and relational algebra....Pages 37-46
On the optimal top-down evaluation of recursive queries....Pages 47-56
A study of spatial clustering techniques....Pages 57-71
Efficient management of 2-d interval relations....Pages 72-82
Managing structured documents in distributed publishing environments....Pages 83-92
A generalized semantic model for CSCW systems....Pages 93-102
C-TORI: An interface for cooperative database retrieval....Pages 103-113
Organization models for cooperative office applications....Pages 114-124
Semantically enriching relational databases into an object oriented semantic model....Pages 125-134
Consistency checking of evolving methods....Pages 135-144
Designing and integrating human genome databases with object-oriented technology....Pages 145-152
On evidential feature salience....Pages 153-162
The R-link tree: A recoverable index structure for spatial data....Pages 163-172
The retrieval of direction relations using R-trees....Pages 173-182
A unified framework for indexing in database systems....Pages 183-192
An intelligent system to identify the appropriate organization for a factory....Pages 193-203
Object-oriented design of manufacturing database helps simplify production management in small firms....Pages 204-213
A solution procedure for solving the nonrectangular cutting stock problem of the clothing industry using expert knowledge within an intelligent CAD environment....Pages 214-224
An object-oriented approach to a temporal query language....Pages 225-235
A framework for developing temporal databases....Pages 236-245
Efficient storage structures for temporal object-oriented databases....Pages 246-258
TFDL: A Temporal Functional Language for the management of historical databases....Pages 259-269
The ORES Temporal DBMS and the ERT-SQL query language....Pages 270-279
Object-oriented constraint analysis in complex applications....Pages 280-289
A conceptual database approach for modelling 3D objects of irregular geometry....Pages 290-299
An algebraic language for event-driven modelling....Pages 300-309
Prototyping object oriented specifications in an algebraic environment....Pages 310-319
Identifying precedents under uncertainty....Pages 320-328
CONCAT — Connotation analysis of thesauri based on the interpretation of context meaning....Pages 329-338
The design and implementation of a legal text database....Pages 339-348
Maintenance of JURICAS legal computer advice systems....Pages 349-358
Expert systems for industrial process control: A study in technology transfer....Pages 359-359
From a passive to an active database supporting exceptions....Pages 360-369
How does knowledge discovery cooperate with active database techniques in controlling dynamic environment?....Pages 370-379
EECA: An active knowledge model....Pages 380-389
Active and passive rules for complex object databases....Pages 390-399
Managing entity versions within their contexts: A formal approach....Pages 400-409
Tracking the evolution of concepts in dynamic worlds....Pages 410-419
Tracing the evolution of artifacts....Pages 420-432
Supporting information disclosure in an evolving environment....Pages 433-444
Geographic data handling in a deductive object-oriented database....Pages 445-454
Expert spatial knowledge: an expert geographical information system in diffusion of water....Pages 455-464
Using versions in GIS....Pages 465-474
The strategic role of information technology towards the information society....Pages 475-475
Federating object-oriented and relational databases....Pages 476-476
Bridging the gap between knowledge engineering and efficient implementation in an intelligent tutoring system....Pages 477-487
Mechanisms for structuring knowledge-based systems....Pages 488-497
Distributed system intelligent design....Pages 498-508
A model for hypermedia based on production systems....Pages 509-520
Hypermedia databases: A specification and formal language....Pages 521-530
Implementing open hypermedia services on top of the Postgres extended relational database management system....Pages 531-539
A support system for building hypermedia training applications....Pages 540-549
OMNIS/Myriad document retrieval and its database requirements....Pages 550-560
Constructing an Information Retrieval System with neural networks....Pages 561-570
The HS file: A new dynamic signature file method for efficient information retrieval....Pages 571-580
A multi-agent architecture for an evolving expert system module....Pages 581-590
Improving integrity constraint checking for stratified deductive databases....Pages 591-600
RTSORAC: A real-time object-oriented database model....Pages 601-610
Applying database technology to real-time systems....Pages 611-620
Database exploration with dynamic abstractions....Pages 621-630
Soft querying, a new feature for database management systems....Pages 631-640
OR-SML: A functional database programming language for disjunctive information and its applications....Pages 641-650
Semantic query optimization in OODB systems....Pages 651-660
A medical terminology server....Pages 661-670
BIND: A biomedical INteroperable database system....Pages 671-679
Development of secure medical database systems....Pages 680-689
Using inductive machine learning, expert systems and case based reasoning to predict preterm delivery in pregnant women....Pages 690-702
Integrating frames, rules and uncertainty in a database-coupled knowledge-representation system....Pages 703-712
A prototype rule-based front end system for integrity enforcement in relational databases: An application to the naval aircraft flight records database....Pages 713-723
Modeling uncertainty in deductive databases....Pages 724-733
Dependency-directed binding of variables for constraint logic programming....Pages 734-743
Flexible and dynamic integration of multiple information bases....Pages 744-753
PPOST: A parallel database in main memory....Pages 754-758
Exploiting inter-operation parallelism for SQL query optimization....Pages 759-768
Reactive object-oriented databases and CIM....Pages 769-778
Advanced computer integrated technology for furniture manufacturing....Pages 779-784
A distributed system for CIM....Pages 785-794
Integrated-Company-Software (INCOSOFT) — a special solution for small- and medium-sized companies....Pages 795-804
