| Multimedia | |
| Towards Dynamics Animation on Object-Oriented Animation Database System "MOVE" | p. 3 |
| Relational Query Formulation by Pseudonatural Language Text Manipulation | p. 11 |
| Similarity Retrieval on Pictorial Databases Based upon Module Operation | p. 19 |
| Multidatabase Systems | |
| Efficient Global Transaction Management in Multidatabase Systems | p. 29 |
| Schema Transformation Processors for Federated Objectbases | p. 37 |
| Determining Schema Interdependencies in Object-Oriented Multidatabase Systems | p. 47 |
| Object-Oriented Database Systems | |
| PINOL: A Persistent Inferential Object Oriented Language for Databases | p. 57 |
| Object-Oriented Database with Rule-Based Query Interface for Genomic Computation | p. 65 |
| LRU-S: A New Buffer Allocation Approach for OODBMS | p. 73 |
| Distributed Database | |
| Enhanced Tree Quorum Algorithm for Replicated Distributed Databases | p. 83 |
| Data Fragmentation and Allocation for PC-Based Distributed Database Design | p. 90 |
| Strategies for Selection from Heterogeneous Relations | p. 97 |
| Industrial Database Applications | |
| Information Integration through Contract | p. 107 |
| The DiNG - A Parallel Multiattribute File System for Deductive Database Machines | p. 115 |
| Database User Interface Design Editor | p. 123 |
| Object-Oriented Data Models | |
| An Object-Centered Data Model for Engineering Design Databases | p. 133 |
| Conceptual Layers in an Object Oriented Database. An Unified Model | p. 141 |
| Generating Object-Oriented Views from an ER-Based Conceptual Schema | p. 148 |
| Parallel Database | |
| A Parallel Pattern Search Algorithm for Processing Object-Oriented Databases in a Cellular Array Architecture | p. 159 |
| Evaluation of a Parallel Database Machine for Caller Dependent Routing | p. 170 |
| A Design of a Transparent Backup System Using a Main Memory Database | p. 178 |
| Access Methods | |
| Abstract Indexing Mechanism of the Extensible DBMS Modus | p. 189 |
| A New Indexing and Text Ranking Method for Japanese Text Databases Using Simple-Word Compounds as Keywords | p. 197 |
| B-Tree Concurrency Control Algorithm for Nested Transaction Systems | p. 205 |
| Real-Time Database | |
| Scheduling and Concurrency Control for Real-Time Database Systems | p. 219 |
| A Protocol for Consistent Checkpointing Recovery for Time-Critical Distributed Database Systems | p. 227 |
| A Token-Based Synchronization Scheme Using Epsilon-Serializability and Its Performance for Real-Time Distributed Database Systems | p. 235 |
| Query Processing (I) | |
| Query Processing Techniques in the Team-Oriented Database Query Language | p. 245 |
| Distributive Join Algorithm for Cube-Connected Multiprocessors | p. 253 |
| Optimization of Chain Queries | p. 261 |
| Rule Management | |
| Database Updates Using Active Rules: A Unified Approach for Consistency Maintenance | p. 271 |
| A Database Rule Language Compiler Supporting Parallelism | p. 279 |
| A Knowledge Based System Converting ER Model into an Object-Oriented Database Schema | p. 287 |
| Temporal Database | |
| Design of Historical Databases Using the 3-D Relational Data Model | p. 297 |
| Offstage Objects and their Renovations in the Temporal Object System TOS | p. 306 |
| Logical Data Independence Via Views: A Misapprehension? | p. 313 |
| Integrity | |
| Optimizing Distributed Integrity Constraints | p. 327 |
| On Deriving Specialization Constraints over Complex Objects | p. 335 |
| Improving Integrity Checking for [actual symbol not reproducible]-Constraints | p. 343 |
| Deductive and Fuzzy Database | |
| On Exclusive Disjunctions in Deductive Database | p. 353 |
| A Fuzzification of the Relational Data Model | p. 360 |
| Enhancing the Fuzzy Set Model with Positively Compensatory Operators | p. 368 |
| Concurrency Control and IO Schedulings | |
| A Pessimistic Concurrency Control Algorithm in Multidatabase Systems | p. 379 |
| An Optimistic Concurrency Control Protocol for Real-Time Database Systems | p. 387 |
| New Disk Scheduling Algorithms for Reduced Rotational Latency | p. 395 |
| Query Processing (II) | |
| Applying Intensional Query Processing Techniques to Object-Oriented Database Systems | p. 405 |
| Heterogeneous Query Optimization Using Maximal Sub-Queries | p. 413 |
| Temporal Query Processing for Scene Retrieval in Motion Image Databases | p. 421 |
| Efficient Processing of Time-Joins in Temporal Data Bases | p. 427 |
| Intelligent User Interface | |
| Qualitative Behavior Modeling of Information Processing Components | p. 435 |
| A Multimedia Database for an Advanced Teleshopping Application | p. 442 |
| Author Index | p. 449 |
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