Advances in Databases

1. Front Matter

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2. Begriffsverzeichnis: a concept index

   • Michael Freeston

   Pages 1-22

3. On the unification of active databases and deductive databases

   • Carlo Zaniolo

   Pages 23-39

4. Semantic constraints in a medical information system

   • Carole A. Goble, Andrzej Glowinski, Keith G. Jeffery

   Pages 40-57

5. A methodology for semantically enriching interoperable databases

   • MalÚ Castellanos

   Pages 58-75

6. Distributed databases tied with string

   • Daniel Cohen, Graem Ringwood

   Pages 76-92

7. Viewing objects

   • Peter J. Barclay, Jessie B. Kennedy

   Pages 93-110

8. Function materialization through object versioning in object-oriented databases

   • T. W. Carnduff, W. A. Gray

   Pages 111-128

9. A C++ database interface based on the Entity-Relationship approach

   • Uwe Hohenstein, Erik Odberg

   Pages 129-146

10. Object-oriented database methodology — State of the art

    • Roger Tagg, Benny Liew

    Pages 147-161

11. Deductive databases with conditional facts

    • Rajshekhar Sunderraman

    Pages 162-175

12. A deductive object-oriented database for data intensive application development

    • Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Maria L. Barja, Norman W. Paton, M. Howard Williams

    Pages 176-198

13. Storage and retrieval of first-order terms using a relational database

    • Paul Singleton, Pearl Brereton

    Pages 199-219

14. Principles of implementing historical databases in RDBMS

    • Peter MĊBrien

    Pages 220-237

15. Integrity constraint enforcement in the functional database language PFL

    • Swarup Reddi

    Pages 238-257

16. Implementation of a version model for artists using extended relational technology

    • Barry Eaglestone, Geoff Davies, Mick Ridley, Nigel Hulley

    Pages 258-276

17. Back Matter

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This volume contains the proceedings of the eleventh British National Conference on Databases, held at Keele University, England. A dominant themein the volume is the provision of the means to enhance the capabilities of databases to handle information that has a rich semantic structure. A major research question is how to achieve such a semantic scale-up without sacrificing performance. There are currently two main paradigms within which it is possible to propose answers to this question, deduction-oriented and object-oriented. Both paradigms are well represented in this collection, with the balance in the direction of the deductive approach, which is followed by both the invited papers, by Michael Freeston from the European Computer-Industry Research Centre in Munich and Carlo Zaniolo from the University of California at Los Angeles. In addition, the volume contains 13 full papers selected from a total of36 submissions.

• DBMS
• Deductive Databases
• Deduktive Datenbanken
• Distributed Databases
• Functional Databases
• Funktionale Datenbanken
• Object-Oriented Databases
• Objektorientierte Datenbanken
• Relational Databases
• Relationale Datenbanken
• Verteilte Datenbanken
• database
• deductive database
• performance
• relational database

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