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Advances in Databases

13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13, Manchester, United Kingdom, July 12 - 14, 1995. Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 940)

Conference series link(s): BICOD: British International Conference on Databases

Conference proceedings info: BNCOD 1995.

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Object databases and standards

    • R. G. G. Cattell
    Pages 1-11
  3. Combining inheritance and parametric polymorphism in a functional database language

    • Simon Courtenage, Alexandra Poulovassilis
    Pages 24-46
  4. The pragmatics of naive database enquiry

    • David Haw, Carole Goble, Alan Rector
    Pages 79-100
  5. Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface

    • Kenneth J. Mitchell, Jessie B. Kennedy, Peter J. Barclay
    Pages 101-119
  6. Scheduling query plans with buffer-requirement estimates

    • John C. Sieg Jr., David Pinkney, James Lamoureaux
    Pages 120-135
  7. Optimization of spatial joins using filters

    • Hein M. Veenhof, Peter M. G. Apers, Maurice A. W. Houtsma
    Pages 136-154
  8. An efficient transient versioning method

    • Sreenivas Gukal, Edward Omiecinski, Umakishore Ramachandran
    Pages 155-171
  9. Concurrency control of tiered flat transactions

    • W. Hussak, J. A. Keane
    Pages 172-182
  10. Two-step pruning: A distributed query optimization algorithm

    • Hyeokman Kim, Sukho Lee, Hyoung -Joo Kim
    Pages 183-203
  11. Text search using database systems revisited - Some experiments

    • Helmut Kaufmann, Hans-Jörg Schek
    Pages 204-225
  12. Integrity merging in an object-oriented federated database environment

    • R. M. Alzahrani, M. A. Qutaishat, N. J. Fiddian, W. A. Gray
    Pages 226-248
  13. The architecture of the ICL GOLDRUSH MegaSERVER

    • Paul Watson, George Catlow
    Pages 249-262
  14. W-SQL an interface for scalable, highly parallel, database machines

    • Jon Kerridge, Dave Walter, Romola Guiton
    Pages 263-276
  15. Back Matter

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About this book

This volume presents the proceedings of the 13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13, held in Manchester, UK in July 1995.
The volume contains 2 invited contributions and 14 full revised technical papers selected from a total of 64 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on functional databases, user interfaces, system-level algorithms, queries and transactions, and parallel and federated systems. Despite the fact that BNCOD is a national event there is strong international representation in the proceedings.

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