1. EDBT 1988: Venice, Italy
Joachim W. Schmidt, Stefano Ceri, Michele Missikoff (Eds.): Advances in Database Technology - EDBT'88, Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Venice, Italy, March 14-18, 1988. Springer 1988 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-19074-0
Invited Paper
Luca Cardelli: Types for Data-Oriented Languages. 1-15
Databases and Logic
Ravi Krishnamurthy, Carlo Zaniolo: Optimization in a Logic Based Language for Knowledge and Data Intensive Applications. 16-33
Peter M. D. Gray, David S. Moffat, Norman W. Paton: A Prolog Interface to a Functional Data Model Database. 34-48
Jiawei Han, Ghassan Z. Qadah, Chinying Chaou: The Processing and Evaluation of Transitive Closure Queries. 49-75
Expert System Approaches to Databases
Angelika M. Kotz, Klaus R. Dittrich, Jutta A. Mülle: Supporting Semantic Rules by a Generalized Event/Trigger Mechanism. 76-91
Ming-Chien Shan: Optimal Plan Search in a Rule-Based Query Optimizer. 92-112
Corine Cauvet, C. Proix, Colette Rolland: Information System Design: An Expert System Approach. 113-133
Distributed Databases and Transaction Management
Catriel Beeri, Hans-Jörg Schek, Gerhard Weikum: Multi-Level Transaction Management, Theoretical Art or Practical Need ? 134-154
Elisa Bertino, Laura M. Haas: Views and Security in Distributed Database Management Systems. 155-169
V. Belcastro, A. Dutkowski, W. Kaminski, M. Kowalewski, C. L. Mallamaci, S. Mezyk, Tommaso Mostardi, F. P. Scrocco, Witold Staniszkis, G. Turco: An Overview of the Distributed Query System DQS. 170-189
Database Administration

Stephanie J. Cammarata: An Intelligent Information Dictionary for Semantic Manipulation of Relational Databases. 214-230
Fausto Rabitti, Darrell Woelk, Won Kim: A Model of Authorization for Object-Oriented and Semantic Databases. 231-250
Complex Database Objects
David Beech: A Foundation for Evolution from Relational to Object Databases. 251-270

Efficient Data Access

Andrea Sikeler: VAR-PAGE-LRU A Buffer Replacement Algorithm Supporting Different Page Sizes. 336-351
Andreas Hutflesz, Hans-Werner Six, Peter Widmayer: The Twin Grid File: A Nearly Space Optimal Index Structure. 352-363
Soon Myoung Chung, P. Bruce Berra: A Comparison of Concatenated and Superimposed Code Word Surrogate Files for Very Large Data/Knowledge Bases. 364-387
Ghassan Z. Qadah: Filter-Based Join Algorithms on Uniprocessor and Distributed-Memory Multiprocessor Database Machines. 388-413
Efficiency by Replicated Data


Rafael Alonso, Daniel Barbará, Hector Garcia-Molina, Soraya Abad: Quasi-Copies: Efficient Data Sharing for Information Retrieval Systems. 443-468
Data Types and Data Semantics
Lawrence Chung, Daniel Rios-Zertuche, Brian A. Nixon, John Mylopoulos: Process Management and Assertion Enforcement for a Semantic Data Model. 469-487
François Bry, Hendrik Decker, Rainer Manthey: A Uniform Approach to Constraint Satisfaction and Constraint Satisfiability in Deductive Databases. 488-505
Spatial Data
Ralf Hartmut Güting: Geo-Relational Algebra: A Model and Query Language for Geometric Database Systems. 506-527
Nikos A. Lorentzos, Roger G. Johnson: An Extension of the Relational Model to Support Generic Intervals. 528-542
Short Project Papers
Support for Data- and Knowledge-Based Applications
Domenico Saccà: Support for Data- and Knowledge-Based Applications - Introduction by the Session Chairman. 549-550
Stefano Ceri, Stefano Crespi-Reghizzi, Georg Gottlob, F. Lamperti, Luigi Lavazza, Letizia Tanca, Roberto Zicari: The Algres Project. 551-555
Alexandre V. Zamulin: Data Base Programming Tools in the Atlant Language. 563-566
Antonio Albano, L. Alfò, S. Coluccini, Renzo Orsini: An Overview of Sidereus: A Graphical Database Schema Editor for Galileo. 567-571
Towards KBMS for Software Development: An Overview of the DAIDA Project. 572-577
Sonia Bergamaschi, Flavio Bonfatti, Claudio Sartori: Entity-Situation: A Model for the Knowledge Representation Module of a KBMS. 578-582
Serge Himbaut: Tell-Me: A Natural Language Query System. 583-587
Distributed Database Applications
Giuseppe Pelagatti: Distributed Database Applications - Introduction by the Session Chairman. 588-589
Peter M. G. Apers, Martin L. Kersten, Hans Oerlemans: PRISMA Database Machine: A Distributed, Main-Memory Approach. 590-593
M. Driouche, Y. Gicquel, Brigitte Kerhervé, G. Le Gac, Yann Lepetit, G. Nicaud: Sabrina-RT, A Distributed DBMS for Telecommunications. 594-599
Dirk Ellinghaus, Matthias Hallmann, Bernhard Holtkamp, Klaus-Dieter Kreplin: A Multidatabase System for Transnational Accounting. 600-605
Elisa Bertino, Fausto Rabitti, Costantino Thanos: MULTOS: a Document Server for Distributed Office Systems. 606-615
Wolfgang Johannsen, Winfried Lamersdorf, Kurt Reinhardt, Joachim W. Schmidt: The DURES Project: Extending Datbases into an Open System Architecture. 616-620



