Advances in Databases: 15th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 15 London, United Kingdom, July 7–9, 1997 Proceedings

Larry Kerschberg (auth.), Carol Small, Paul Douglas, Roger Johnson, Peter King, Nigel Martin (eds.)3540632638, 9783540632634

This book consists of the refereed proceedings of the 15th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 15, held in London, in July 1997.
The 12 revised full papers presented were selected from more than 30 submissions. Also included are 10 poster presentations and the invited lecture on The Role of Intelligent Software Agents in Advanced Information Systems by Larry Kerschberg. The papers are organized in topical sections on transaction processing, optimization, object-orientation and the Internet, and database integration.

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Table of contents :
The role of intelligent software agents in advanced information systems….Pages 1-22
Location and replication independent recovery in a highly available database….Pages 23-37
Compensation-based query processing in on-line transaction processing systems….Pages 38-53
Detection arcs for deadlock management in nested transactions and their performance….Pages 54-68
Improved and optimized partitioning techniques in database query processing….Pages 69-83
Query evaluation in CROQUE….Pages 84-100
Optimisation of partitioned temporal joins….Pages 101-115
Maintaining library catalogues with an RDBMS: A performance study….Pages 116-118
Merging an active database and a reflective system: Modelling a new several active meta-levels architecture….Pages 119-120
A framework for database mining….Pages 121-122
Query processing techniques for partly inaccessible distributed databases….Pages 123-125
Indexing multi-visual features in image database….Pages 126-128
Customisable visual query interface to a heterogeneous database environment: A meta-programming based approach….Pages 129-130
Automatic web interfaces and browsing for object-relational databases….Pages 131-132
A mechanism for automating database interface design, based on extended E-R modelling….Pages 133-134
Exploration of the requirements in a visual interface to tabular data….Pages 135-136
DOA — the Deductive Object-oriented Approach to the development of adaptive natural language interfaces….Pages 137-138
An efficient indexing scheme for objects with roles….Pages 139-153
A prefetching technique for object-oriented databases….Pages 154-168
WIND: A warehouse for internet data….Pages 169-183
An object Versioning system to support collaborative design within a Concurrent Engineering context….Pages 184-199
Schema integration with integrity constraints….Pages 200-214
A method for integrating deductive databases….Pages 215-231