Next Generation Information System Technology

The papers in this book discuss the concepts that will determine the next generation of information systems, such as data types for databases, object orientation, data deduction and construction, visual database interfaces, interoperability and extensibility, open architectures.

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Declarative languages Paradigm of the past or challenge of the future?.- A glimpse of paradise.- An object-oriented data model for artificial intelligence applications.- An overview of life.- On the semantics of rules in database programming languages.- Towards a categorical data model supporting structured objects and inheritance.- Typing schemes for objects with locality.- Object orientation and logic programming for databases: A season's flirt or long-term marriage?.- Semantics of object-oriented data models The evolving algebra approach.- Extending the entity-relationship model for a high-level, theory-based database design.- Towards database application systems: Types, kinds and other open invitations.- Modelling inheritance in a strongly typed functional model.- Bulk types for large scale programming.- Controlled generation of intensional answers.- Data construction with recursive set expressions.- The LOGIDATA+ model and language.- A recursive base for database programming primitives.- Toward multiparadigm database interfaces.- Updating Datalog databases.- Synthesis: Towards a query facility for generalized information resources.- The database programming language Atlant: Principal features and implementation techniques.- LOQIS: The object-oriented database programming system.- The CLOS project: Towards an object-oriented environment for application development.- The HYTECH project: IP tools based on hypertext technology.- Visicom: A visual interface to databases.- The ADIS project on ADaptive information systems: Concepts and language technology.- Istspn: Integrated Software Tool Supporting Petri Nets.- The FOLI project: Towards an artificial intelligence language.- Informatization and restructuring of Soviet society.