Ron Sacks-Davis (Ed.): ADC '94, Proceedings of the 5th Australasian Database Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 17-18 January 1994. Global Publications Service, Singapore, 1993, Distributed by World Scientific, ISBN 981-3049-00-6

Invited Talks

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  Rodney W. Topor: Views of Objects and Rules. 1-13
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  Graeme Simsion: Implementation of Very Generalised Data Structures. 14-29

Query Evaluation

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  Hong-Cheu Liu, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Multiple Path Join for Nested Relational Databases. 30-44
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  John V. Harrison, Suzanne W. Dietrich: Incremental View Maintenance. 45-63
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  Jia Liang Han: Smallest-First Query Evaluation for Database Systems. 64-78

Indexing

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  Alistair Moffat, Justin Zobel: Self-Indexing Inverted Files. 79-91
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  Evan P. Harris, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Using Optimized Multi-Attribute Hash Indexes for Hash Joins. 92-111
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  W. W. Read: On the Average Storage Utilisation of hB Trees. 112-123

Deductive Database Systems

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  Seppo Sippu, Eljas Soisalon-Soininen: Avoiding Redundant Computations in Evaluating Linear Queries. 124-135
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  Matilde Celma, Hendrik Decker: Integrity Checking in Deductive Databases - the Ultimate Method? 136-146
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  David B. Kemp, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Syntactically Recognizable Modularly Stratified Programs. 147-161

Active and Temporal Database Systems

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  Chuan-Heng Ang, Kok-Phuang Tan: The Interval B-Tree: A New Time Indexing Structure. 162-178
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  Anthony Berglas: Using KL-ONE Knowledge Representation Techniques to Structure Active Database Rules. 179-194
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  Piero Fraternali, Danilo Montesi, Letizia Tanca: Active Database Semantics. 195-212

Hypermedia Systems

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  Eran Tuv, George Loizou: HyperStore: A Persistent Object Store for Next-Generation Applications. 213-226
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  Lauri Malmi: Efficient Rebalancing of Tree-Type Main Memory Dictionaries. 227-246
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  Helen Ashman, Janet Verbyla, Tim Cawley: Hypermedia Management in Large-Scale Information Systems Using the Functional Model of the Link. 247-257

Schema and Integration

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  Athman Bouguettaya: Large Multidatabases: Beyond Federation and Global Schema Integration. 258-273
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  Andrew Blair: Methods of Integrating Knowledge-Based and Database Systems. 274-291
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  Michael Lawley, Rodney W. Topor: A Query Language for EER Schemas. 292-304

Transactions

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  Yanchun Zhang, Maria E. Orlowska: An Integrated Concurrency Control Approach in Multidatabase Systems. 305-315
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  Shankar Pal, Sitaram Lanka: A Study of the Relationship Among Various Notions of Serializability. 316-327
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  Shankar Pal, Sitaram Lanka: Transaction Processing in Multidatabase Systems Without Atomic Commitment Protocol. 328-345

Data Modelling

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  Millist W. Vincent, Bala Srinivasan: Key-Based Update Anomalies and the Justification for 4NF in Database Design. 346-359
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  Xiaofang Zhou, Yanchun Zhang, Maria E. Orlowska: On Decomposition of Functional Dependency Manipulation for Parallel Execution. 360-373
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  Linda Campbell, Terry A. Halpin: Abstraction techniques for Conceptual Schema. 374-388