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- Editors:
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David J. Harper
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Department of Computer Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
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Moira C. Norrie
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Department of Computer Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
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Table of contents (17 papers)
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Front Matter
Pages I-VIII
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- A. T. M. Aerts, P. M. E. De Bra, K. M. van Hee
Pages 1-20
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- Roberto S. M. de Barros, David J. Harper
Pages 21-43
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- Stefano Ceri, Stefano Crespi Reghizzi
Pages 44-63
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- Karen C. Davis, Lois M. L. Delcambre
Pages 88-105
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- Catherine Hamon, Marion Créhange
Pages 135-153
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- Gunter Saake, Ralf Jungclaus
Pages 228-245
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- W. B. Samson, A. W. Wakelin
Pages 246-254
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- Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Ingrid Wetzel, Joachim W. Schmidt
Pages 255-274
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- Cristina Sernadas, Paula Gouveia, João Gouveia, Amílcar Sernadas, Pedro Resende
Pages 275-299
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- Petros Bofakos, Moira Norrie
Pages 312-319
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Back Matter
Pages 321-323
About this book
Increasingly, formal specification is being used by database researchers to describe and understand the systems they are designing and implementing. Similarly, those working on formal specification techniques have recognised that the database field provides a rich context for developing their ideas. However, as experts in one field often have a relatively limited knowledge of the other, there is a growing need for discussion about the relationship between these two fields and how they can be usefully combined. This volume contains the 16 papers which were presented at the International Workshop on Specification on Database Systems, held in Glasgow, 3-5 July 1991. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together these fields and to examine, through a series of invited talks, presentations and working groups, the role that formal specification can play in developing database systems. The papers describe current research into topics such as the formal specification of data models, query languages and transaction handling and the use of formal specification techniques to understand problems which arise in database systems. The working groups, which are summarised at the end of the volume, covered a variety of issues including the role of graphical notations in database specification, the use of specification techniques in enabling "open" or extensible database systems and the education of the database community in specification techniques. This volume will be invaluable to the increasing number of researchers who are using both database systems and formal specification techniques in their work, and who wish to gain a more detailed knowledge of these two fields and the issues which affect them.
