Advances in Databases: 17th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 17 Exeter, UK, July 3-5, 2000 Proceedings

Invited Papers.- Precision in Processing Data from Heterogeneous Resources.- Just-in-Time Information: To Push or Not to Push.- Performance and Optimisation.- Using Space-Filling Curves for Multi-dimensional Indexing.- A Multi-Query Optimizer for Monet.- Join Order Selection ( Good Enough Is Easy ).- User Requirements on Large Systems.- A User-Centric View of Data Warehouse Maintenance Issues.- VESPA: A Benchmark for Vector Spatial Databases.- Collection Views: Dynamically Composed Views Which Inherit Behaviour.- Distributed Transactions.- Global Transaction Termination Rules in Composite Database Systems.- A Review of Multidatabase Transactions on the Web: From the ACID to the SACReD.- A Publish/Subscribe Framework: Push Technology in E-Commerce.- Invited Paper.- Characterizing Data Provenance.- Interoperability Using XML.- A Grammar Based Model for XML Schema Integration.- CORBA and XML: Design Choices for Database Federations.- Rewriting XQL Queries on XML Repositories.