This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 18, held in Chilton, UK, in July 2001.
The 11 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on performance and optimization, objects: design and development, query optimization, and querying objects.
Invited Papers.- SEAL — A Framework for Developing SEmantic Web PortALs.- E-Science and the Grid.- Performance and Optimisation.- An Analysis of Main-Memory and Log Space Usage in Extended Ephemeral Logging.- An Effective Data Placement Strategy for XML Documents.- LOIS: The “Lights Out” Integrity Subsystem.- Objects – Design & Development.- CASE-Tool Interchange of Design Transformations.- The Real Benefits of Object-Relational DB-Technology for Object-Oriented Software Development.- Object-Oriented Versioning in a Concurrent Engineering Design Environment.- Query Optimisation.- Experiences with IR TOP N Optimization in a Main Memory DBMS: Applying ‘the Database Approach’ in New Domains.- Limiting Result Cardinalities for Multidatabase Queries Using Histograms.- Memory Aware Query Routing in Interactive Web-Based Information Systems.- Querying Objects.- Inferring the Principal Type and the Schema Requirements of an OQL Query.- Immersed Visual Data Mining: Walking the Walk.
Overview
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 18, held in Chilton, UK, in July 2001.
The 11 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on performance and optimization, objects: design and development, query optimization, and querying objects.