This volume contains papers presented at the Second International East/West Database Workshop, held in Klagenfurt, Austria, from 25-28 September 1994. The theme of the workshop was the breaking down of borders, both political - by bringing together researchers from the East and West - and scientific: how traditional technical borders can be altered to allow collaboration between different types of information systems, and how heterogeneous and distributed databases can be used as enabling technologies for such systems.
Among the specific topics covered by the papers: information engineering; data models and database standards; applications and interfaces; query optimization; and security. The papers present important new results in many areas of database research, and will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students involved in all
Chimera: A Model and Language for Active DOOD Systems.- Updates by Reasoning About States.- On the Theory of Relational Data Bases with Incomplete Information.- Constraint Satisfiability in Object-Oriented Databases.- Objects Within a Conceptual Shell.- Comparison of Clustering Algorithms in a Single User Environment Through 007 Benchmark.- Security as an Add-On Quality in Persistent Object Systems.- Optimization of Object-Oriented Queries by Inverse Methods.- F-Bounded Polymorphism for Database Programming Languages.- OODBMS’s Query and Programming Languages: What Do They Provide and What Do We Need.- A Meta-Language for Specification of Evolving Class and Object Lattices in OODB.- A Stack-Based Approach to Query Languages.- Identifying Internet-Related Database Research.- Integrating Text and Database Systems: Possibilities and Challenges.- Logical and Conceptual Models for the Integration of Information Retrieval and Database Systems.- Composition Models of Databases.- Could the OODB Standards be Better if More Grounded?.- Version Support for CAD/CASE Databases.- A General Framework for Database Design Strategies.- Towards Foundations of Database Schema Independent Modelling of Concepts.- Inheritance of Object Behavior — Consistent Extension of Object Life Cycles.- Visual Specification of Complex Database Actions.- The Database Specification Language Ruslan: Main Features.- Structural and Behavioral Abstractions of the Multiactivities Intended for Their Concretizations by the Pre-Existing Behaviors.- Management and Translation of Heterogeneous Database Schemes.- Federated Schemata in ODMG.- ADDS Transaction Management System.- Persistent Object Systems and Interoperability: Linguistic and Architectural Requirements.- CSCW — Paradigm of Modern Applied Informatics and Problem of East-West Relationships.- Model Based User Interface Constructor with Consistency Checking.- Author Index.
Overview
This volume contains papers presented at the Second International East/West Database Workshop, held in Klagenfurt, Austria, from 25-28 September 1994. The theme of the workshop was the breaking down of borders, both political - by bringing together researchers from the East and West - and scientific: how traditional technical borders can be altered to allow collaboration between different types of information systems, and how heterogeneous and distributed databases can be used ...