East/West Database Workshop

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Rules in Databases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Chimera: A Model and Language for Active DOOD Systems

      • Stefano Ceri, Rainer Manthey

      Pages 3-16

   3. Updates by Reasoning about States

      • Georg Lausen, Bertram Ludäscher

      Pages 17-30

3. Theoretical Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. On the Theory of Relational Data Bases with Incomplete Information

      • M. Sh. Tsalenko

      Pages 33-47

   3. Constraint Satisfiability in Object-Oriented Databases

      • Anna Formica, Michele Missikoff, Roberto Terenzi

      Pages 48-60

   4. Objects within a Conceptual Shell

      • V. E. Wolfengagen

      Pages 61-73

4. Special Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Comparison of Clustering Algorithms in a Single User Environment through OO7 Benchmark

      • Kadir Koc, Asuman Dogac, Cem Evrendilek

      Pages 77-89

   3. Security as an Add-On Quality in Persistent Object Systems

      • Andreas Rudloff, Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmidt

      Pages 90-108

   4. Optimization of Object-Oriented Queries by Inverse Methods

      • Johann Eder, Heinz Frank, Walter Liebhart

      Pages 109-121

5. Database Languages

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. F-Bounded Polymorphism for Database Programming Languages

      • Suad Alagić

      Pages 125-137

   3. OODBMS’s Query and Programming Languages: What Do They Provide and What Do We Need

      • Sergei D. Kuznetsov

      Pages 138-146

   4. A Meta-language for Specification of Evolving Class and Object Lattices in OODB

      • Hele-Mai Haav

      Pages 147-158

   5. A Stack-Based Approach to Query Languages

      • Kazimierz Subieta, Catriel Beeri, Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmidt

      Pages 159-180

6. Information Engineering

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Identifying Internet-related Database Research

      • Peter M. G. Apers

      Pages 183-193

   3. Integrating Text and Database Systems: Possibilities and Challenges

      • W. Bruce Croft

      Pages 194-205

This volume results from the four-day scientific Second International East/West Database Workshop which took place 25th-28th September 1994, in Klagenfurt, Austria, continuing a series of workshops started in Kiev in 1990 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 504, Springer, "Next Generation Information System Technology"). The aims of this workshop are twofold: first, to provide a forum for the presentation and in-depth discussion of scientific achievements in the field of advanced databases that will effectively improve the building and use of future information systems; second, to establish and increase communication between research communities which were formerly separated and, therefore, had only rare opportunities to interact. It should establish contacts between researchers from the East and from the West to make exchange of ideas possible and to trigger collaborations. However, it is not only political borders which change their perviousness as a result of -or giving rise to -new autonomies or new possibilities for interaction and collaboration. The same happens with the borders between scientific areas, in particular in the dynamically evolving areas of computer science. Databases and programming languages are integrated in object oriented databases, database and information retrieval technology form together the basis for modern (multimedia) information systems. Furthermore, the borders between different information systems change and allow various forms of collaboration while maintaining different degrees of autonomy. Heterogeneous and distributed databases are enabling technologies for these systems.

• DBMS
• clustering
• database
• database system
• information retrieval
• object-oriented database
• user interface

• Institut für Informatik, Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

  Johann Eder

• Institute for Problems of Informatics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, v-334, Russian Federation

  Leonid A. Kalinichenko

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