Object Deputy Model and Its Applications | p. 1 |
The Management of Interdependent Asynchronous Transactions in Heterogeneous Database Environments | p. 16 |
Object-Oriented Views of Relational Databases Incorporating Behaviour | p. 26 |
Maintaining Schemata Consistency for Interoperable Database Systems | p. 36 |
An Extension of SQL for Relations of History Expressions | p. 44 |
An Event Algebra for Specifying and Scheduling Workflows | p. 53 |
Hyper-Agenda: A System to Organize and Realize Tasks | p. 61 |
An Approach to Intelligent Software Library Management | p. 71 |
Continuous Media Sharing in Multimedia Database Systems | p. 79 |
Cost Efficient Adaptive Protocol with Buffering for Advanced Mobile Database Applications | p. 87 |
Gaming-Simulations of Multi-Agent Information Systems Using Large Databases: The Concept and Database Algorithms | p. 95 |
Combining Indexing Technique with Path Dictionary for Nested Object Queries | p. 107 |
A New Algorithm for Processing Joins Using the Multilevel Grid File | p. 115 |
Signature False Drops due to Combinatorial Error | p. 124 |
On Marrying Relations and Objects: Relation-Centric and Object-Centric Perspectives | p. 131 |
A Query Interface Truly for Chinese Users | p. 138 |
A Visual Representation of Complex Relationships for Object-Oriented Databases | p. 149 |
A Multimedia Application Programming Interface Framework | p. 157 |
On the Issues of Expressiveness and Portability of Chiql | p. 164 |
A Deductive Database Solution to Intelligent Information Retrieval from Legacy Databases | p. 172 |
Datalog[superscript A]: Array Manipulations in a Deductive Database Language | p. 180 |
Set-Term Matching in a Logic Database Language | p. 189 |
Modeling, Chaining and Fusion of Uncertain Knowledge | p. 197 |
OODB Support for Real-Time Open-Architecture Controllers | p. 206 |
Real-Time Replication Control for Distributed Database Systems: Algorithms and Their Performance | p. 214 |
Real-Time Multiversion Concurrency Control Using Precedence Relationship | p. 222 |
Data Compression Management Mechanism for Real-Time Main Memory Database Systems | p. 230 |
Batch Query Processing in Shared-Nothing Multiprocessors | p. 238 |
Dynamic Join Product Skew Handling for Hash-Joins in Shared-Nothing Database Systems | p. 246 |
Load Balancing in Distributed Query Processing | p. 256 |
Implementing Dynamic Code Assembly for Client-Based Query Processing | p. 264 |
The ODMG Standard for Object Databases | p. 273 |
Evolution Features of the F2 OODBMS | p. 284 |
Object Migration in ISA Hierarchies | p. 292 |
Transform More Semantics from Relational Databases into Object-Oriented Databases | p. 300 |
Formally Speaking About Schemata, Bases, Classes and Objects | p. 308 |
Extensible Data Modeling for Statistical Databases | p. 318 |
Intelligent Mathematical Databases | p. 326 |
Genetic Sequence Annotation within Biological Databases | p. 333 |
Spatial Database Querying with Logic Languages | p. 342 |
Incorporating Flexible and Expressive Rule Control in a Graph-Based Transaction Framework | p. 350 |
Synchronization Attributes and Rules of Active Object-Oriented Database for Multimedia Presentation | p. 358 |
An Efficient Algorithm for Deriving Compact Rules from Databases | p. 364 |
On Foundations of Constraint Optimization | p. 372 |
A Two-Phase Approach to Data Allocation in Distributed Databases | p. 380 |
Performance Evaluation of Replica Control Algorithms in a Locally Distributed Database System | p. 388 |
An Efficient Representation of Distributed Fragments of Recursive Relations | p. 397 |
Trading Operation Consistency for Concurrency | p. 405 |
Archiving Techniques for Temporal Databases | p. 413 |
Temporal Object-Oriented Data Model for the Schema Modification | p. 422 |
A Temporal Expansion to the Multimedia Object Model in OMEGA | p. 430 |
Object-Oriented Modeling and Querying of Hypermedia Documents | p. 441 |
A Formal Model for Databases of Structured Text | p. 449 |
Incremental Data Organization for Ancient Document Databases | p. 457 |
Author Index | p. 467 |
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