The Springer International Engineering and Computer Science

I Project Research for Knowledge Base Machines.- ICM3: Design and Evaluation of an Inference Crunching Machine.- Knowledge Base Machine Based on Parallel Kernel Language.- KEV-A Kernel for Bubba.- II Database Machines.- Hypercube and Vector Database Machines.- IDP-A Main Storage Based Vector Database Processor.- Join on a Cube: Analysis, Simulation and Implementation.- Design of a HyperKYKLOS-based Multiprocessor Architecture for High-Performance Join Operations.- Sorting Machines.- Design and Implementation of High Speed Pipeline Merge Sorter with Run Length Tuning Mechanism.- Algorithms for Sorting and Sort-Based Database Operations Using a Special-Function Unit.- Parallel Partition Sort for Database Machines.- Concurrency Control.- Distributing the Optimistic Multiversioning Page Manager in the JASMIN Database Machine.- Multi-Wait Two-Phase Locking Mechanism and Its Hardware Implementation.- Performance Evaluation of Several Cautious Schedulers for Database Concurrency Control.- VLSI-based Database Machines.- The Database Processor 'RAPID'.- A Bus Connected Cellular Array Processing Unit for Relational Database Machines.- A Network Algorithm for Relational Database Operations.- Parallel Execution and Control of Database Machines.- The Impact of the Interconnecting Network on Parallel Database Computers.- Dynamically Partitionable Parallel Processors: The Key for Cost-Efficient High Transaction Throughput.- A High Speed Database Machine-HDM.- Filter Processors.- A High Performance VLSI Data Filter.- Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Relational Database Engine for Variable Length Records.- A Filter Processor as Part of an Intelligent Disk Controller.- Intelligent String Search Processor to Accelerate Text Information Retrieval.- Main Memory Database Machines.- The Silicon Database Machine: Rationale, Design, and Results.- MARS: The Design of a Main Memory Database Machine.- MACH: Much Faster Associative Machine.- A Distributed, Main-Memory Database Machine: Research Issues and a Preliminary Architecture.- Performance Evaluation.- A Single User Evaluation of the Gamma Database Machine.- Performance Projections for a Relational Query Processor.- Analytical Performance Evaluation of Relational Database Machines.- Algebra Operations on a Parallel Computer-Performance Evaluation.- Memory and Disk Management.- Experiments with Data Access and Data Placement Strategies for Multi-Computer Database Systems.- Set-Oriented Memory Management in a Multiprocessor Database Machine.- Parallel Execution Strategies for Declustered Databases.- III Knowledge Base Machines.- Query Processing Strategy for Deductive Database Machines.- A Stream-Oriented Approach to Parallel Processing for Deductive Databases.- DDC: A Deductive Database Machine.- An Inference Model and a Tree-Structured Multicomputer System for Large Data-Intensive Logic Bases.- AI Machines.- A Shared Memory Architecture for MANJI Production System Machine.- A Real-Time Production System Architecture Using 3-D VLSI Technology.- Architectural Evaluation of a Semantic Network Machine.- Architectural Support for Deductive Database Machines.- An Architecture for Very Large Rule Bases Based on Surrogate Files.- A Superimposed Code Scheme for Deductive Databases.- A Simulation Study of a Knowledge Base Machine Architecture.- Prolog Machines.- Implementing Parallel Prolog System on Multiprocessor System PARK.- Search Strategy for Prolog Data Bases.- The Unification Processor by Pipeline Method.- Extended Model for Database and Knowledge Base.- Knowledge-Based System for Conceptual Schema Design on a Multi-Model Database Machine.- An Algebraic Deductive Database Managing a Mass of Rule Clauses.- An Approach for Customizing Services of Database Machines.