Database and Expert Systems Applications: Proceedings of the International Conference in Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, 1991

Session 1 A Object Oriented Representation.- “OO and Active Formal Information System Specification”.- “Roles: A Methodology for Representing Multifaceted Objects”.- “TheAldous90 Project: Merging Object-Oriented Databases and Knowledge-Based Systems”.- “Object Oriented Databases for Maintenance Expert Systems”.- Session 1 B Office Information Systems.- “Student Admission: Expert and Database Systems”.- “Mapping Generalization and Object Sharing into Nested Relations: An ODA Implementation”.- “An Object Modeling Method for Office Information Systems Design”.- “An Interface/Application Builder with Transmission Control Facility for SGML Document Databases”.- Session 1 C Deductive Databases and Database Programming Languages.- “Rationale and Design of Serendip, a Database Programming Language”.- “General Transitive Closures and Aggregate Functions”.- “A Deductive Database System with Applications to Route Planning”.- “Using Relaxation Techniques to Evaluate Queries in Deductive Databases”.- Session 2 A Applications on Technology and Industry.- “Data-Structure Builder for VLSI/CAD Software”.- “Knowledge Representation Structures for the Evaluation of Production Planning and Control Systems”.- “An Information System for the Mining Industry”.- “Intelligent Network Management: A Network Management Support System Using AI Techniques”.- Session 2 B Information Retrieval.- “Computer-Aided Production of Multilingual Historical Reference Works”.- “A Friendly and Intelligent Approach to Data Retrieval in a Multimedia DBMS”.- “An Information Retrieval View of Environmental Information Systems”.- “Enhancing Text Retrieval Semantically”.- Session 2 C Business and Educational Applications.- “The Commonsense Business Reasoner”.- “Building Expert Databases: L-Cata — An Intelligent Logic Based Travel Assistant”.- “Using a Meta-Knowledge Method for Developing an Educational Knowledge-Based Application”.- “Tarps: A Prototype Expert Database System for Training and Administration of Reserves Officer Placement”.- Session 3 A Knowledge Based Systems.- “Constructing Minimal Knowledge Bases by Machine Learning”.- “Efficient Access to Large Prolog Knowledge Bases”.- “TheArpo-2: An Expert System for Building Contracts”.- Session 3 B Graphical Interfaces.- “A Graphical Interactive Tool for KBS Maintenance”.- “Experiences withSuper, a Database Visual Environment”.- Session 4 A Implementation Aspects.- “A Flexible and Extensible Index Manager for Spatial Database Systems”.- “Krishna — Concurrency Control Algorithms Based on Dynamic Attributes”.- “The Design of an Efficient Data Structure for Manipulating Data in an Image Database System”.- “High Performance Data Parallel Recursion”.- Session 4 B Object Orientation.- “A Form System for an Object-Oriented Database System”.- “Supporting User Interactions with OODB’s: A Declarative Approach”.- “A Query Interface for an Object Management System”.- “An Indexing Model for Complex Object Hierarchies in Object-Oriented Databases”.- “An Object-Oriented Executable Requirements Specification Language”.- Session 4 C Foundation of Object Orientation.- “Functional and Object-Oriented Specification of Information Systems”.- “Formal Model of an Object-Oriented Database with Versioned Objects and Schema”.- “Meta Variables and Inheritance in an Object-Oriented Data Model”.- “Uncertainty Management in Object-Oriented Database Systems”.- “A Framework for Strong Typing and Type Inference in (Persistent) Object Models”.- Session 5 A Multimedia Databases and Hypertext.- “Principles of Knowledge Augmented Visual Databases”.- “Relationship Abstractions for an Effective Hypertext Design: Augmentation and Globalization”.- “Toros-Hyper: A Tool for the Integration of Hyper Documents into Knowledge-Based Systems”.- “A Transaction Model for Hypertext”.- Session 5 B Applications in Science, Technology, and Industry.- “A Knowledge-Based System for Fault Diagnosis in Real-Time Engineering Applications”.- “An Expert System to Support Mine Planning Operations”.- “Knowledge Base Management Systems in the Field of High Energy Physics”.- “A Meteorological Database for Numerical and Non-numerical Processing”.- Session 5 C Heterogenous and Multidatabase Systems.- “An Implementation Model for Multidatabase Queries”.- “Knowledge-Based Schema Analysis in a Multi-Database Framework”.- “Atomicity of Global Transactions in Distributed Heterogeneous Database Systems”.- “Application-Oriented Integration of Distributed Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources”.- Session 6 A Advanced Applications.- “Semantic Interpretation of Natural Language inProlog: Logical Forms”.- “Map Summarization Using Analogical Matching of Schema”.- “Goblin: A DBPL Designed for Advanced Database Applications”.- Session 6 B Modelling.- “A Metamodel Approach for the Management of Multiple Models inCaseTools”.- “The Development of a Knowledge-Based Database Transaction Design Assistant”.- “Integrity Constraint Enforcement Through Transaction Modification”.- “Environmental Information Organization”.- Session 6 C Database Aspects.- “Making C++ Object Persistent by Using a Standard Relational Database System”.- “Relational Database Organization Based on Views and Fragments”.- “A Dynamic Overwrite Prool for Multiversion Concurrency Control Algorithms”.- Session 7 A Querying Aspects.- “A Temporal-Logic-Based Query Language for Querying Database Histories”.- “Querying Incomplete Knowledge Bases with Abduction”.- “On EstimatingCount, Sum, andAverageRelational Algebra Queries”.- “Recursion with the Graphical Query LanguageCandid”.- “Adams: An Aggregate Data Management System with Multiple Interaction Techniques”.- Session 7 B Legal Systems.- “Juridical Principles for Juridical Applications. TheDerinfoMethodology”.- “A Formal Model for the Support of Analogical Reasoning in Legal Expert Systems”.- “The Effect of Change on Legal Applications”.- “An Expert Thesaurus for Ancient Law”.- Session 7 C Hypermedia Systems.- “Designing a Hypermedia Information System”.- “Querying in a Large Hyperbase”.- “InterSect: A General Purpose Hypertext System Based on an Object Oriented Database”.- “Knowledge Base Support for Hypermedia Co-Authoring”.- “Computer Supported Multimedia Environment for Collaboration”.- Session 8 A Practice Systems.- “Expert Systems Development and Management, A Case Study”.- “Protein Function Database as a Deductive and Object-Oriented Database”.- “System Architecture and Specification of a Fast BOM Object Processor Using a Standard Relational Database Management System and a Main Memory Cache”.- “Data Modelling for International Organizations”.- “Isacs — An Integrated Surveillance and Control System”.- “Constraint-Guided Scheduling for Satellite Data Processing and Archiving”.- Session 8 B User Interfaces.- “Building Adaptive Applications Using Active Mediator”.- “Hypertext for Hypertext: A Figured Thesaurus”.- “Gneis: A Portable Natural Language Explanation Component for Expert Systems”.- “Spreadviews”.- “End-User Interface to Improve Microcomputer DBMS Efficiency”.- Session 8 C Medical Information Systems.- “Integration of Database and Hypertextual Technologies in Designing a Clinical Information System”.- “Rades — Medical Assistance System for the Management of Irradiated Persons”.- “A Temporal Model for Clinical and Resource Management in Vascular Surgery”.- “Preparing Medical Knowledge for Diagnostic Expert Systems”.- “Symbolic Computation in RL/1”.- “Ineks — An Information System for Medical Application”.