This volume presents the proceedings of a workshop on parallel database systems organized by the PRISMA (Parallel Inference and Storage Machine) Project. The contributors provide a survey of several aspects of parallel database systems. The second part of the volume gives an in-depth overview of the PRISMA system, which is based on a parallel machine with individual processors which each have their own local memory and communicate with each other over a packet-switched network. On this machine, a parallel object-oriented programming language, POOL-X, has been implemented, which provides...

Object-oriented programming techniques have quickly gained widespread use and popularity. The proceedings of ECOOP '91 include papers discussing language design, specification, databases, concurrency, types, and software development.