As the mystery of the computer world unfolds with each revelation of its technology, computer users today look forward to a powerful tool to produce a variety of reports and manuscripts. The Unix system provides a variety of powerful text formatters, and one such typesetting tool is called nroff/troff which can help users unlock the resources and the power of a computer system in the preparation of written documents. Nroff is a text formatter for daisy-wheel printers and similar devices while troff is a device-independent text formatter for producing typeset output. These two together provide...

Contains original papers which present recent developments in databases and knowledge based systems, and their applications to practical problems. Topics covered include databases and temporal databases, object-oriented modelling, object-oriented databases, deductive databases, distributed database and information systems, database design issues and intelligent databases. The papers aim to reflect the importance of databases and the work being done on them.