Directions in Databases: 12th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 12, Guildford, United Kingdom, July 6-8, 1994. Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540582359 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 241 str.

David S. Bowers

Opis

This volume of conference proceedings has been organized into sections on temporal databases, formal approaches, parallel databases, object-oriented databases and distributed databases. There are two invited papers on the management of open systems and knowledge reuse through networks.

Spis treści

Managing open systems now that the glass-house has gone.- Knowledge reuse through networks of large KBS.- Expressing temporal behaviour with extended ECA rules.- Temporal databases: an event oriented approach.- Object comprehensions: A query notation for object-oriented databases.- Expressivity of typed logic paradigms for object-oriented databases.- Algebraic computation of the weak well-founded model for general deductive databases.- Benchmarking parallel SQL database machines.- Branching Transactions: A transaction model for parallel database systems.- A strategy for semantic integrity enforcement in a parallel database machine.- On interface objects in object-oriented databases.- Efficient access to FDM objects stored in a relational database.- A conceptual language for querying object oriented data.- The Jupiter system: A prototype for multidatabase interoperability.- A model for heterogeneous distributed database systems.