Advances in Databases: 11th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 11, Keele, UK, July 7-9, 1993. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 696)

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.--publisher's Website. Begriffsverzeichnis: A Concept Index / Michael Freeston -- On The Unification Of Active Databases And Deductive Databases / Carlo Zaniolo -- Semantic Constraints In A Medical Information System / Carole A. Goble, Andrzej Glowinski And Keith G. Jeffery -- A Methodology For Semantically Enriching Interoperable Databases / Malu Castellanos -- Distributed Databases Tied With String / Daniel Cohen And Graem Ringwood -- Viewing Objects / Peter J. Barclay And Jessie B. Kennedy -- Function Materialization Through Object Versioning In Object-oriented Databases / T.w. Carnduff And W.a. Gray -- A C++ Database Interface Based On The Entity-relationship Approach / Uwe Hohenstein And Erik Odberg -- Object-oriented Database Methodology -- State Of The Art / Roger Tagg And Benny Liew -- Deductive Databases With Conditional Facts / Rajshekhar Sunderraman -- A Deductive Object-oriented Database For Data Intensive Application Development / Alvaro A.a. Fernandes, Maria L. Barja, Norman W. Paton And M. Howard Williams. Storage And Retrieval Of First-order Terms Using A Relational Database / Paul Singleton And O. Pearl Brereton -- Principles Of Implementing Historical Databases In Rdbms / Peter Mcbrien -- Integrity Constraint Enforcement In The Functional Database Language Pfl / Swarup Reddi -- Implementation Of A Version Model For Artists Using Extended Relational Technology / Barry Eaglestone, Geoff Davies, Mick Ridley And Nigel Hulley. M. Worboys, A.f. Grundy (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References. Begriffsverzeichnis: a concept index....Pages 1-22 On the unification of active databases and deductive databases....Pages 23-39 Semantic constraints in a medical information system....Pages 40-57 A methodology for semantically enriching interoperable databases....Pages 58-75 Distributed databases tied with string....Pages 76-92 Viewing objects....Pages 93-110 Function materialization through object versioning in object-oriented databases....Pages 111-128 A C++ database interface based on the Entity-Relationship approach....Pages 129-146 Object-oriented database methodology — State of the art....Pages 147-161 Deductive databases with conditional facts....Pages 162-175 A deductive object-oriented database for data intensive application development....Pages 176-198 Storage and retrieval of first-order terms using a relational database....Pages 199-219 Principles of implementing historical databases in RDBMS....Pages 220-237 Integrity constraint enforcement in the functional database language PFL....Pages 238-257 Implementation of a version model for artists using extended relational technology....Pages 258-276 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 of 36 submissions This paper describes a generalised technique for the indexing of data structures of different complexities.