Advances in Database Technology - EDBT '88

Types for data-oriented languages.- Optimization in a logic based language for knowledge and data intensive applications.- A Prolog interface to a Functional Data Model database.- The processing and evaluation of transitive closure queries.- Supporting semantic rules by a generalized event/trigger mechanism.- Optimal plan search in a rule-based query optimizer.- Information systems design: An expert system approach.- Multi-level transaction management, theoretical art or practical need?.- Views and security in distributed database management systems.- An overview of the distributed query system DQS.- TAILOR, a tool for updating views.- An intelligent information dictionary for semantic manipulation of relational databases.- A model of authorization for object-oriented and semantic databases.- A foundation for evolution from relational to object databases.- Col: A logic-based language for complex objects.- A universal relation model for nested relations.- Multilevel trie hashing.- Var-page-lru a buffer replacement algorithm supporting different page sizes.- The twin grid file: A nearly space optimal index structure.- A comparison of concatenated and superimposed code word surrogate files for very large data/knowledge bases.- Filter-based join algorithms on uniprocessor and distributed-memory multiprocessor database machines.- Placement of replicated items in distributed databases.- Optimizing voting-type algorithms for replicated data.- Quasi-copies: Efficient data sharing for information retrieval systems.- Process management and assertion enforcement for a semantic data model.- A uniform approach to constraint satisfaction and constraint satisfiability in deductive databases.- Geo-relational algebra: A model and query language for geometric database systems.- An extension of the relational model to support generic intervals.- Esprit: Trends & challenges in DB technology.- Project session on support for data and knowledge-based applications.- The algres project.- O2, an object-oriented data model.- Data base programming tools in the ATLANT language.- An overview of siderues: A graphical database schema editor for Galileo.- Towards KBMS for software development: An overview of the DAIDA project.- Entity-situation: A model for the knowledge representation module of a KBMS.- TELL-ME: A natural language query system.- Project session on distributed database applications.- PRISMA database machine: A distributed, main-memory approach.- SABRINA-RT, a distributed DBMS for telecommunications.- A multidatabase system for transnational accounting.- Multos: a document server for distributed office systems.- The DURESS project: Extending databases into an open systems architecture.