ISBN: 3540677437
TITLE: Advances in Databases
AUTHOR: Lings, Brian; Jeffery, Keith (Eds.)
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Invited Papers
Precision in Processing Data from Heterogeneous Resources (Invited Paper) 1
G.Wiederhold (Stanford University)
Just-in-Time Information: To Push or Not to Push (Abstract) 19
S.Chakravarthy (University of Texas at Arlington)
Performance and Optimisation
Using Space-Filling Curves for Multi-dimensional Indexing 20
J.K.Lawder, P.J.H.King (Birkbeck College)
A Multi-query Optimizer for Monet 36
S.Manegold, A.Pellenkoft, M.Kersten (CWI)
Join Order Selection - Good Enough Is Easy 51
F.Waas, A.Pellenkoft (CWI)
User Requirements on Large Systems
A User-centric View of Data Warehouse Maintenance Issues 68
H.Engstrm (University of Skvde), S.Chakravarthy (University of Texas at Arlington), B.J.Lings (University of Exeter)
VESPA: A Benchmark for Vector Spatial Databases 81
N.W.Paton (University of Manchester), M.H.Williams, K.Dietrich, O.Liew, A.Dinn, A.Patrick (Heriot-Watt University)
Collection Views: Dynamically Composed Views which Inherit Behaviour 102
P.M.D.Gray, G.J.L.Kemp, P.Brunschwig, S.Embury (University of Aberdeen)
Distributed Transactions
Global Transaction Termination Rules in Composite Database Systems 122
C.Trker (ETZ Zrich), K.Schwarz (UBS AG), G.Saake (Otto-von-Guericke-Universitt Magdeburg)
A Review of Multidatabase Transactions on The Web: From the ACID to the SACReD 140
M.Younas, B.Eaglestone (University of Sheffield), R.Holton (University of Bradford)
A Publish/Subscribe Framework: Push Technology in E-Commerce 153
E.C.Cheng (Stanford University), G.Loizou (Birkbeck College)
Invited Paper
Characterizing Data Provenance (Abstract) 171
P.Buneman (University of Pennsylvania)
Interoperability Using XML
A Grammar Based Model for XML Schema Integration 172
R.Behrens (Medizinische Universitt zu Lbeck)
CORBA and XML: Design Choices for Database Federations 191
G.J.L.Kemp, C.J.Robertson, P.M.D.Gray, N.Angelopoulos (University of Aberdeen)
Rewriting XQL Queries on XML Repositories 209
P.T.Wood (King's College London)
Author Index 227
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