15. BNCOD 1997: Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Carol Small, Paul Douglas, Roger G. Johnson, Peter J. H. King, G. Nigel Martin (Eds.): Advances in Databases, 15th British National Conferenc on Databases, BNCOD 15, London, United Kindom, July 7-9, 1997, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1271 Springer 1997, ISBN 3-540-63263-8

Invited Paper

Larry Kerschberg:
The Role of Intelligent Software Agents in Advanced Information Systems. 1-22

Svein Erik Bratsberg, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen:
Location and Replication Independent Recovery in a Highly Available Database. 23-37
Øystein Grøvlen, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd:
Compensation-Based Query Processing in On-Line Transaction Processing Systems. 38-53
Fernando de Ferreira Rezende, Theo Härder, Andreas Gloeckner, Jörg Lutze:
Detection Arcs for Deadlock Management in Nested Transactions and their Performance. 54-68

Kjell Bratbergsengen, Kjetil Nørvåg:
Improved and Optimized Partitioning Techniques in Database Query Processing. 69-83
Torsten Grust, Joachim Kröger, Dieter Gluche, Andreas Heuer, Marc H. Scholl:
Query Evaluation in CROQUE - Calculus and Algebra Coincide. 84-100
Thomas Zurek:
Optimisation of Partitioned Termporal Joins. 101-115

Oleg Balownew, Thomas Bode, Armin B. Cremers, Jürgen Kalinski, Jens E. Wolff, H. Rottmann:
Maintaining Library Catalogues with an RDBMS: A Performance Study (Abstract). 116-118
Laure Berti:
Merging an Active Database and a Reflective System: Modelling a New Several Active Meta-Levels Architecture (Abstract). 119-120
Himanshu Gupta, Iain McLaren, Alfred Vella:
A Framework for Database Mining (Abstract). 121-122
Oliver Haase, Andreas Henrich:
Query Processing Techniques for Partly Inaccessible Distributed Databases (Abstract). 123-125
Rong Lei, Anne H. H. Ngu, Jesse J. Jin:
Indexing Multi-Visual Features in Image Database (Abstract). 126-128
Ajith P. Madurapperuma, W. A. Gray, N. J. Fiddian:
Customisable Visual Query Interface to a Heterogeneous Database Environment: A Meta-Programming Based Approach (Abstract). 129-130
Mark Papiani, Alistair N. Dunlop, Anthony J. G. Hey:
Automatic Web Interfaces and Browsing for Object-relational Databases (Abstract). 131-132
Simon R. Rollinson, Stuart A. Roberts:
A Mechanism for Automating Database Interface Design, Based on Extended E-R Modelling (Abstract). 133-134
Ian Taylor, Steve Benford:
Exploration of the Requirements in a Visual Interface to Tabular Data (Abstract). 135-136
Werner Winiwarter, Yahiko Kambayashi:
DOA - The Deductive Object-Oriented Approach to the Development of Adaptive Natural Language Interfaces (Abstract). 137-138

Franky Lam, H. Lewis Chau, Raymond K. Wong:
An Efficient Indexing Scheme for Objects with Roles. 139-153
Nils Knafla:
A Prefetching Technique for Object-Oriented Databases. 154-168
Lukas Faulstich, Myra Spiliopoulou, Volker Linnemann:
WIND - A Warehouse for Internet Data. 169-183

I. Santoyridis, Tom W. Carnduff, W. A. Gray, John C. Miles:
An Object Versioning System to Support Collaborative Design within a Concurrent Engineering Context. 184-199
Stefan Conrad, Michael Höding, Gunter Saake, Ingo Schmitt, Can Türker:
Schema Integration with Integrity Constraints. 200-214
Lihui Xu, Alexandra Poulovassilis:
A Method for Integrating Deductive Databases. 215-231