Database Reengineering and Interoperability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Keynote Speeches

   1. A Method for Reengineering Existing Relational Database Applications for the Satisfaction of Multimedia Based Requirements

      • John Ayre, Donald McFall, John G. Hughes, Claude Delobel

      Pages 1-13

   2. The Need for Reengineering when Integrating Expert System and Database System Technology

      • Peter Smith, Chris Bloor, Shi-Ming Huang, Alan Gillies

      Pages 15-24

3. Reengineering

   1. An Object Oriented Model for Data, Knowledge, and System Reengineering

      • Shi-Ming Huang, Peter Smith, John Tait

      Pages 25-39

   2. The Management Perspective of Database Reengineering

      • Chuk Yau

      Pages 41-53

   3. Reengineering VSAM, IMS, and DL/1 Applications into Relational Database

      • Rob England

      Pages 55-68

   4. Reengineering Library Data

      • Daniel Aebi, Reto Largo

      Pages 69-80

   5. Reverse Engineering in a Client-Server Environment

      • Brian Siu, Joseph Fong

      Pages 81-88

   6. Eliminating the Impedance Mismatch Between Relational and Object-Oriented Systems

      • Jian Chen, Qiming Huang

      Pages 89-102

   7. Generalization Without Reorganization in a Simple Object Oriented DBMS

      • Tarik Beldjilali

      Pages 103-116

   8. Semantic Query Transformation

      • Narasimha Bolloju

      Pages 117-124

   9. On Interoperability Verification and Testing of Object-Oriented Databases

      • T. Y. Kuo, T. Y. Cheung

      Pages 125-140

   10. An Object-Oriented Approach to Query Interoperability

       • Jibin Zhan, W. S. Luk, Carlos Wong

       Pages 141-153

   11. Using Parameterized Canonical Representations to Resolve Conflicts and Achieve Interoperability between Relational and Object Databases

       • Ya-hui Chang, Louiqa Raschid

       Pages 155-185

   12. Flexible Transaction Management in an Interoperable Database Environment

       • W. Yu, F. Eliassen

       Pages 187-198

   13. A Pilot Survey of Database Reengineering and Interoperability

       • Irene S. Y. Kwan

       Pages 199-214

   14. Designing Client-Server Applications for Enterprise Database Connectivity

       • Christopher Moffatt

       Pages 215-234

   15. Handling Terabyte Databases on Open Systems

       • Tony Banham

       Pages 235-246

4. Integration

   1. Schema Integration Methodology Including Structural Conflict Resolution and Checking Conceptual Similarity

      • Gengo Suzuki, Masashi Yamamuro

      Pages 247-260

   2. Extensional Issues in Schema Integration

      • M. Garcia-Solaco, F. Saltor, M. Castellanos

      Pages 261-273

Modern computing management systems and application programs are often de­ signed as open systems. In an open environment, the users' application programs serving similar purposes, though possibly implemented using different hardware or software tech­ nologies, can interact easily and properly with one other. But, it is a big challenge in research and development to provide the means for integrating these technologies and reengineering the new or existing management systems so as to make all of the relevant components interoperable. In case of databases, because of the variety in data models and theory, the interoper­ ability and reengineering issues become even more complex and crucial, especially for companies heavily involved in data management. With the rapid advances in networking and database modeling technology, old issues may have to be reinvestigated and new issues come up constantly. It is our hope that this year's workshop, the sixth in a series of annual events, can provide a timely forum for database researchers and practitioners to share their recent experience and results in various aspects of this fast -developing field. This series of workshops has been organized by the Hong Kong Computer Society and financially supported by many local industrial and business companies. This year, the Cooperative Research Centre for Open Systems Technology, located in the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, has joined the organization team and the list of financial sponsors.

• DBMS
• Management
• database
• organization
• programming
• programming language
• relational database

• City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China

  To-yat Cheung, Joseph Fong, Brian Siu

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