Advances in Database Technology EDBT '96: 5th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Avignon, France, March 25-29 1996, Proceedings. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT'96, held in Avignon, France in March 1996. The 31 full revised papers included were selected from a total of 178 submissions; also included are some industrial-track papers, contributed by partners of several ESPRIT projects. The volume is organized in topical sections on data mining, active databases, design tools, advanced DBMS, optimization, warehousing, system issues, temporal databases, the web and hypermedia, performance, workflow management, database design, and parallel databases. Mining sequential patterns: Generalizations and performance improvements....Pages 1-17 SLIQ: A fast scalable classifier for data mining....Pages 18-32 The PARK semantics for active rules....Pages 33-55 Composite events in Chimera....Pages 56-76 Management of multiple models in an extensible database design tool....Pages 77-95 An assessment of non-standard DBMSs for CASE environments....Pages 96-113 Correct schema transformations....Pages 114-128 VALIDITY: Applications of a DOOD system....Pages 129-134 The need for an object relational model and its use....Pages 135-139 Data integration using self-maintainable views....Pages 140-144 Monet and its geographical extensions: A novel approach to high performance GIS processing....Pages 145-166 Optimizing queries with aggregate views....Pages 167-182 Translating OSQL queries into efficient set expressions....Pages 183-197 Knowledge discovery from epidemiological databases....Pages 199-204 Scalable update propagation in epidemic replicated databases....Pages 205-222 Database support for efficiently maintaining derived data....Pages 223-240 Optimal multi-block read schedules for partitioned signature files....Pages 241-255 Amalgamating SGML documents and databases....Pages 257-274 Indexing nucleotide databases for fast query evaluation....Pages 275-288 Version management for scientific databases....Pages 289-303 First-order queries over temporal databases inexpressible in temporal logic....Pages 305-324 Querying TSQL2 databases with temporal logic....Pages 325-341 A formal temporal object-oriented data model....Pages 342-356 Dynamic development and refinement of Hypermedia documents....Pages 357-362 MATISSE: A multimedia web DBMS....Pages 363-363 Doing business with the web: The Informix/Illustra approach....Pages 364-369 A hash partition strategy for distributed query processing....Pages 371-387 Fine-granularity locking and client-based logging for distributed architectures....Pages 388-402 Exploiting persistent intermediate code representations in open database environments....Pages 403-423 Providing high availability in very large workflow management systems....Pages 425-442 Semantic workflow interoperability....Pages 443-462 LabFlow-1: A database benchmark for high-throughput workflow management....Pages 463-478 Adaptive parallel query execution in DBS3....Pages 479-484 IRO-DB: Making relational and Object-Oriented Database Systems Interoperable....Pages 485-489 Object query services for telecommunication networks....Pages 490-493 Accommodating integrity constraints during database design....Pages 495-513 Reasoning with aggregation constraints....Pages 514-534 How to tackle schema validation by view updating....Pages 535-549 LoT: Dynamic declustering of TSB-tree nodes for parallel access to temporal data....Pages 551-572 LH*lh: A scalable high performance data structure for switched multicomputers....Pages 573-591 Declustering spatial databases on a multi-computer architecture....Pages 592-614 Object framework for business applications....Pages 615-620 Commit scope control in nested transactions....Pages 621-624 Fundamental techniques for order optimization....Pages 625-628 Dealing with asynchrony in technology transfer....Pages 629-634