Object-oriented database management systems will serve developing areas such as engineering design, office information systems, imaging systems, and hypermedia. These proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop cover all aspects of such systems.

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Section 1: Introduction.- What Makes Object-Oriented Database Management Systems Different.- Section 2: Models and Formal Languages.- Object-Oriented Data Model Concepts.- Query Languages for Models with Object-Oriented Features.- Functional Programming Formalisms for OODBMS Methods.- A Formal Object-Oriented Query Model and an Algebra.- Section 3: System Implementation Issues.- Optimization of Object-Oriented Query Languages: Problems and Approaches.- Transaction Models and Transaction Management in Object-Oriented Database Management Systems.- Object Storage Management Architectures.- Active Object Systems.- Object-Oriented Rule Languages and Optimization Techniques.- The Promise of Distributed Computing and the Challenges of Legacy Information Systems.- Object-Orientation and Interoperability.- Section 4: Systems and Prototypes.- Open OODB: Architecture and Query Processing Overview.- METU Object-Oriented DBMS.- The Ode Object-Oriented Database Management System: An Overview.- Object-Oriented Modeling for Hypermedia Systems Using the VODAK Model Language.- Object Modeling Using Classification in CANDIDE and its Applications.- References.