Information and Knowledge Management: Expanding the Definition of Database

This volume contains expanded and updated versions of papers presented at CIKM 92, the First International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, held in Baltimore, Maryland, in November 1992. The conference participants came from the fields of database management, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence. A major theme in the volume is how these fields are merging and enriching each other. Theeight papers discuss: discovering context in a conceptual schema; a system for face information retrieval; queries in OODB systems; consistency checking in OODBs; integrity constraints representation in OODBs; a framework for temporal object databases; inductive dependencies and approximate databases; OODB design methodologies.

Autorentext
Dr. Yelena Yesha is an Exceptional Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Formerly, she served as the Director of the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences at NASA. Dr. Yesha is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member of the ACM.

Inhalt
Discovering context in a conceptual schema.- An interactive image management system for face information retrieval.- Queries in object-oriented database systems.- Consistency checking in object oriented databases: A behavioral approach.- Integrity constraints representation in Object-Oriented databases.- A framework for temporal object databases.- Inductive dependencies and approximate databases.- Object-oriented database design methodologies: A survey.