13. BNCOD 1995: Manchester, UK

Invited Papers

• R. G. G. Cattell:
  Object Databases and Standards. 1-11
  
• Arif Ghafoor:
  Multimedia Database Management: Perspectives and Challenges. 12-23
  

Functional Databases

• Simon Courtenage, Alexandra Poulovassilis:
  Combining Inheritance and Parametric Polymorphism in a Functional Database Language. 24-46
  
• David R. Sutton, Carol Small:
  Extending Functional Database Languages to Update Completeness. 47-63
  

User Interfaces

• Joan C. Nordbotten, Martha E. Crosby:
  Recognising Graphic Detail - An Experiment in User Interpretation of Data Models. 64-78
  
• David Haw, Carole A. Goble, Alan L. Rector:
  The Pragmatics of Naive Database Enquiry. 79-100
  
• Kenneth J. Mitchell, Jessie B. Kennedy, Peter J. Barclay:
  Using a Conceptual Data Language to Describe a Database and its Interface. 101-119
  

System-Level Algorithms

• John Sieg Jr., David Pinkney, James Lamoureaux:
  Scheduling Query Plans with Buffer-Requirement Estimates. 120-135
  
• Hein M. Veenhof, Peter M. G. Apers, Maurice A. W. Houtsma:
  Optimisation of Spatial Joins Using Filters. 136-154
  
• Sreenivas Gukal, Edward Omiecinski, Umakishore Ramachandran:
  An Efficient Transient Versioning Method. 155-171
  

Queries and Transactions

• Walter Hussak, John A. Keane:
  Concurrency Control of Tiered Flat Transactions. 172-182
  
• Hyeokman Kim, Sukho Lee, Hyoung-Joo Kim:
  Two-Step Pruning: A Distributed Query Optimisation Algorithm. 183-203
  
• Helmut Kaufmann, Hans-Jörg Schek:
  Text Search Using Database Systems Revisited - Some Experiments. 204-225
  

Parallel and Federated Systems

• R. M. Alzahrani, M. A. Qutaishat, N. J. Fiddian, W. A. Gray:
  Integrity Management in an Object-Oriented Federated Database Environment. 226-248
  
• Paul Watson, George Catlow:
  Architecture of the ICL GOLDRUSH MegaSERVER. 249-262
  
• Jon M. Kerridge, David Walter, Romola Guiton:
  W-SQL: An Interface for Scalable, Highly Parallel Database Machines. 263-276