Database and Expert Systems Applications

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA '95, held in London, UK in September 1995.
The 60 full revised papers presented in the volume were carefully selected from a total of almost 200 submissions and give a comprehensive view over advanced applications of information systems. Among the topics covered are object-oriented databases, advanced database applications, parallel and distributed systems, object-oriented modeling, information retrieval, theoretical aspects, extended relational databases, expert and knowledge-based systems, and physical aspects.

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Communication costs in digital library databases.- METU Object-Oriented DBMS kernel.- Design and implementation of the spareC++ OODBPL.- Gaining a uniform view of different integration aspects in a prototyping environment.- A frame-based approach for interoperation support in multidatabase systems.- Developing distributed database applications using TSL.- Prints of the 17th Century in a distributed digital library system.- OASIS v2: A class definition language.- Design and implementation of object-oriented views.- A visual object-oriented query language for geographic information systems.- Capturing essential questions using question support facilities in the VIEW classroom.- A fuzzy model of managerial decision making incorporating risk and ambiguity aversion.- People oriented software technology, and its use in environmental reporting.- A cost evaluator for parallel database systems.- A performance study of declustering strategies for parallel spatial databases.- Benchmarking object-oriented database systems for CAD.- Combining reverse with forward database engineering a step forward to solve the legacy system dilemma.- Performance evaluation for clustering algorithms in object-oriented database systems.- Applied active databases for evolving image processing algorithms.- Spatial reasoning for GIS using a tesseral data representation.- A new dynamic signature file method in parallel processing environment.- General protocols for consensus in distributed systems.- The multiple representation in an architectural application.- Simulation of schema change using views.- SGML/HyTime repositories: Requirements and data modelling using object-oriented database concepts.- A depository for structured text objects.- Issues on hypertext design.- A temporal logic based approach for querying lists, trees, and dags in databases.- Disjunctive ordered logic.- An algebraic rewriting theorem of multiple linear recursions and its applications.- A layered architecture for supporting objects in a relational system: A performance study.- An SQL extension supporting user viewpoints.- KBED: A Knowledge-Based Edge Detection System.- Understanding expert systems maintenance.- Evaluating case-based reasoning in a geological domain.- An expert loading system for chemical and product carriers.- FuzzyBase: A fuzzy logic aid for relational database queries.- EMIR2. An extended model for image representation and retrieval.- Rule evaluations in a KDD system.- Object-oriented knowledge based imputation.- Knowledge organization for exploration.- Data extraction from form images.- Compiling legal hypertexts.- Composition tools integration with a music database system.- Relational database reverse engineering: Extraction of an IFO2 schema.- Extended set operators for nested relations and complex objects.- Several implementations of persistent pointers in a memory-mapped I/O environment.- TOPYDE: A tool for physical database design.- Tightly secure transaction scheduler in multi-level secure database management systems.- A heuristic approach for optimization of path expressions.- Problem dimensions in design of CSCW systems.- A rule-driven transformation processor for bill of material data.- Functions of VIEW Conf to support dynamic features of meetings.- CICERO: An assistant for planning visits to a museum.- WASA: A workflow-based architecture to support scientific database applications.- MIDAS the morphological component of the IDA system for efficient natural language interface design.- Partial match retrieval in two-headed disks.- Concurrency control in nestedtransactions with enhanced lock modes for KBMSs.- A measure for measure.- Information security concepts in Computer Supported Cooperative Work.- An intelligent self-guided vehicle for CIM systems.- Information system for onco-pathology.