Advances in Databases
13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13, Manchester, United Kingdom, July 12 - 14, 1995. Proceedings
Published on 28. June 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 286 pages
978-3-540-60100-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents the proceedings of the 13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13, held in Manchester, UK in July 1995.
The volume contains 2 invited contributions and 14 full revised technical papers selected from a total of 64 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on functional databases, user interfaces, system-level algorithms, queries and transactions, and parallel and federated systems. Despite the fact that BNCOD is a national event there is strong international representation in the proceedings.
The volume contains 2 invited contributions and 14 full revised technical papers selected from a total of 64 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on functional databases, user interfaces, system-level algorithms, queries and transactions, and parallel and federated systems. Despite the fact that BNCOD is a national event there is strong international representation in the proceedings.
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Series
Edition
1995 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
X, 286 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
452 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-60100-5 (9783540601005)
DOI
10.1007/BFb0000536
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Object databases and standards.- Multimedia database management: Perspectives and challenges.- Combining inheritance and parametric polymorphism in a functional database language.- Extending functional database languages to update completeness.- Recognizing graphic detail an experiment in user interpretation of data models.- The pragmatics of naive database enquiry.- Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface.- Scheduling query plans with buffer-requirement estimates.- Optimization of spatial joins using filters.- An efficient transient versioning method.- Concurrency control of tiered flat transactions.- Two-step pruning: A distributed query optimization algorithm.- Text search using database systems revisited - Some experiments.- Integrity merging in an object-oriented federated database environment.- The architecture of the ICL GOLDRUSH MegaSERVER.- W-SQL an interface for scalable, highly parallel, database machines.