Advanced Database Systems: 10th British National Conference on Databases, Bncod 10, Aberdeen, Scotland, July 6 - 8, 1992. Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540556930 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 265 str.

Peter M. D. Gray; Rob J. Lucas; Peter M. D. Gray

Opis

The theme of this book is the potential of new advanced database systems. The volume presents the proceedings of the 10th British National Conference on Databases, held in Aberdeen, Scotland, in July 1992. The volume contains two invited papers, one on the promise of distributed computing and the challenges of legacy systems by M.L. Brodie, and the other on object-oriented requirements capture and analysis and the Orca project by D.J.L. Gradwell. The following four parts each contain three submitted papers selected from a total of 36 submissions.

Spis treści

The promise of distributed computing and the challenges of legacy systems.- Object oriented requirements capture and analysis — The ORCA project.- A model for versioning of classes in object-oriented databases.- A Storage manager for the Hypernode model.- Views and formal implementation in a three-level schema architecture for dynamic objects.- The meiko computing surface: A parallel & scalable open systems platform for Oracle.- A study of a parallel database machine and its performance the NCR/Teradata DBC/1012.- Control of a large massively parallel database machine using sQL catalogue extensions, and a DSDL in preference to an operating system.- Integration of modal logic and the functional data model.- The Raleigh activity model: Integrating versions, concurrency, and access control.- A graphical data modelling program with constraint specification and management.- Association merging in a schema metaintegration system for a heterogeneous Object-Oriented database environment.- Generating active rules from high-level specifications.- Employing integrity constraints for query modification and intensional answer generation in multi-database systems.