Advances in Database Technology - EDBT '92

These are the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Extending Database Technology. EDBT is a major biannual conference that has attracted a lot of interest. The volume includes 33 papers selected from 220 submissions.

Inhalt
Understanding object-oriented database systems.- On formalizing database updates: Preliminary report.- Concepts for graph-oriented object manipulation.- The Manchester Multimedia Information System.- Query by visual example.- Optimization of linear logic programs using counting methods.- Generalized bottom-up query evaluation.- Compilation-based list processing in deductive databases.- Multiple substitutability without affecting the taxonomy.- A view mechanism for object-oriented databases.- Theoretical aspects of schema merging.- Towards a logical-object oriented programming language for databases.- Supporting access control in an object-oriented database language.- CQL++: A SQL for the Ode object-oriented DBMS.- Retrieval of complex objects.- Evolution of knowledge bases.- The events method for view updating in deductive databases.- Implementation of delayed updates in Heraclitus.- Adaptive and automated index selection in RDBMS.- Performance of on-line index construction algorithms.- Hybrid index organizations for text databases.- Sampling issues in parallel database systems.- Parallelism for high performance query processing.- Dynamic and load-balanced task-oriented database query processing in parallel systems.- The demarcation protocol: A technique for maintaining linear arithmetic constraints in distributed database systems.- Fragmentation of recursive relations in distributed databases.- A geometric approach to indexing large rule bases.- Database support for problematic knowledge.- A knowledge-based approach to statistical query processing.- Efficient locking and caching of data in the multisystem shared disks transaction environment.- A non-restrictive concurrency control for object oriented databases.- An execution model for distributed database transactionsand its implementation in VPL.- Approximate query processing with summary tables in statistical databases.- Pipelined query processing in the DBgraph storage model.- Optimizing object-oriented database queries using cost-controlled rewriting.- Panel object-oriented models for multidatabase interoperability.