ISBN: 3-540-64659-0
TITLE: Advances in Databases
AUTHOR: Embury, Suzanne M.; Fiddian, Nicholas J.; Gray, W. Alex; Jones, Andrew C. (Eds.)
TOC:

Middleware 
JPMQ - An Advanced Persistent Message Queuing Service 1 
H.-P. Steiert and J. Zimmermann 
Life Cycles 
A Repository to Support Transparency in Database Design 19 
G. Griebel, B. Lings and B. Lundell 
Observation Consistent Integration of Views of Object Life-Cycles 32 
G. Preuner and M. Schrefl 
Association 
Efficient Mining of Association Rules in Large Dynamic Databases 49 
E. Omiecinski and A. Savasere 
Efficient Nearest-Neighbour Searches Using Weighted Euclidean Metrics 64 
R. Kurniawati, J.S. Jin and J.A. Shepherd 
Images 
The Acoi Algebra: A Query Algebra for Image Retrieval Systems 77 
N. Nes and M. Kersten 
A Meta-Structure for Supporting Multimedia Editing in Object-Oriented 
Databases 89 
G. Speegle, X. Wang and L. Gruenwald 
Heterogeneity 
Establishing a Knowledge Base to Assist Integration of Heterogeneous 
Databases 103 
D.D. Karunaratna, W.A. Gray and N.J. Fiddian 
Considering Integrity Constraints During Federated Database Design 119 
S. Conrad, I. Schmitt and C. Trker 
Languages 
Scoped Referential Transparency in a Functional Database Language with 
Updates 134 
P.F. Meredith and P.J.H. King 
Extending the ODMG Architecture with a Deductive Object Query 
Language 149 
N.W. Paton and P.R. Falcone Sampaio 
Posters 
The Chase of Datalog Programs 165 
N.R. Brisaboa, A. Gonzlez, H.J. Hernndez and J.R. Param
Describing and Querying Semistructured Data: Some Expressiveness 
Results 167 
N. Alechina and M. de Rijke 
The TENTACLE Database System as a Web Server 169 
M. Welz and P. Wood 
A Toolkit to Facilitate the Querying and Integration of Tabular Data from 
Semistructured Documents 171 
L.E. Hodge, W.A. Gray and N.J. Fiddian 
Parallel Sub-collection Join Algorithm for High Performance Object-Oriented 
Databases 173 
D. Taniar and J.W. Rahayu 
Component DBMS Architecture for Nomadic Computing 175 
J.A. McCann and J.S. Crane 
ITSE Database Interoperation Toolkit 177 
W. Behrendt, N.J. Fiddian, W.A. Gray and A.P. Madurapperuma 
Ontological Commitments for Multiple View Cooperation in a Distributed 
Heterogeneous Environment 179 
A.-R.H. Tawil, W.A. Gray and N.J. Fiddian 
Constraint and Data Fusion in a Distributed Information System 181 
K.-y. Hui and P.M.D. Gray 
Author Index 183 
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