4. OOIS 1997: Brisbane, Australia

Kenote Address

• Daniel H. Fishman: Object-Oriented Information Systems in the 21st Century. 3-6

Object Oriented Methodologies

• Richard J. Whiddett, Michael A. Bailey: Complexity and Maintenance: A Comparative Study of Object-Oriented and Structured Methodologies. 7-17
• Craig E. Perritt: Systems Oriented Analysis and Design Directions: A Suggested Evolution from the Object Model. 18-30

Query Processing

• Joachim Biskup, Jürgen Freitag, Yücel Karabulut, Barbara Sprick: Query Evaluation in an Object-Oriented Multimedia Mediator. 31-43
• Hakgene Shin, Heeju Lee, Jae-Woo Chang: A Concatenated Signature Scheme on Path Dictionary for Query Processing of Composite Objects. 44-54
• Xuequn Wu: An Approach to Query Translation in a Federation of Distributed Heterogeneous Database Systems. 55-68

Modelling Issues I

• Kinh Nguyen, Tharam S. Dillon: A Practical Formally-Based Modelling Method for Object Oriented Information Systems. 69-80
• Hala Naja, Noureddine Mouaddib: Viewpoints in Object-Oriented Databases. 81-91
• Paul Ryder, Graham Pervan, Donald McDermid: Construction of a Modelling Framework for Health Information. 92-104

Transaction Processing and Concurrency Control

• Mohsen Beheshti: A Performance Evaluation for a Concurrency Control Mechanism in an ODBMS. 105-119
• Aamir Rasheed, Arkady B. Zaslavsky: A Transaction Model to Support Disconnected Operation in a Mobile Computing Environment. 120-130
• Simone Sédillot, Jian Liang: Legacy Transactional Systems Integration Framework. 131-144

Applications

• Kitty Hung, Yuan Sun, Tony Rose: A Dynamic Business Object Architecture for an Insurance Industrial Project. 145-156
• Hui Yao: Automatic Drawing of Structured Digraphs. 157-167
• Frank Buddrus, Sven-Eric Lautemann, Marco Bellavia: Making O₂ become a WWW Server. 168-178

Modelling Issues II

• Bent Bruun Kristensen: Subject Composition by Roles. 181-196
• Philippe Li-Thaio-Té, Jessie B. Kennedy, John Owens: Assessing Inheritance for the Multiple Descendant Redefinition Problem in OO Systems. 197-210
• Manuel Kolp, Alain Pirotte: An Aggregation Model and its C++ Implementation. 211-224

Re-Usability I

• R. Chafi, C. Robert Carlson: Behavioural Pattern Analysis Approach. 225-235
• Xuandong Li, Guoliang Zheng: Enhancing Reusability and Maintainability in NDOOM. 236-246
• Paul Schleifer, Yuan Sun, Dilip Patel: Temporal Business Objects: A Waste of Time? 247-260

Modelling Issues III

• Ole Smørdal: Classifying Approaches to Object Oriented Analysis of Work with Activity Theory. 261-271
• En-Hsin Huang, Tzilla Elrad: Race Scheduling Controls for Object Systems. 272-285
• Hanan Bentaleb: Quality of Service Object-Oriented Modeling at the Operating System Level. 286-298

Re-usability II

• Anne-Marie Vercoustre, François Paradis: A Descriptive Language for Information Object Reuse through Virtual Documents. 299-311
• Islam Choudhury, Yuan Sun, Dilip Patel: Generic Reusable Business Object Modelling - A Framework and its Application in British Telecommunications. 312-324
• Jan Seruga, Francis Pascis: Object-Oriented Approaches to Software Reuse. 325-334

Architectural Issues

• Chengfei Liu, Maria E. Orlowska, Hui Li: Realizing Object-Relational Databases by Mixing Tables with Objects. 335-346
• Wolfgang Emmerich: CORBA and ODBMSs in Viewpoint Development Environment Architectures. 347-360
• Takeo Kunishima, Kazumasa Yokota: An Agent-Based Coordination Model on Workflow Databases. 361-374

Object Orientation in Spatial Structures

• Jisook Park, Sukho Lee: Inheritance of Multimedia Class having Temporal-Spatial Structures. 375-385
• Sang-Ho Moon, Bonghee Hong: Design and Implementation of Object-Oriented Spatial Views. 386-396
• Yang Hee Kim: Two Levels of Spatial Data Modeling for an Object-Oriented Spatial Database System. 397-410

Database Design and Views

• Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbert Widmann, Peter Zoller, Peter Baumann: Object-Oriented Design of a Database Engine for Multidimensional Discrete Data. 411-421
• Zohra Bellahsene: Updating Virtual Complex Objects. 422-432
• James L. Johnson, George Fernandez: Re-Engineering Relational Normal Forms in an Object-Oriented Framework. 433-454

Software Engineering/Development

• Kai-Uwe Sattler: A Framework for Component-Oriented Tool Integration. 455-465
• Eugene Eric Doroshenko: A Refined Meta-Model Approach to Education for the Transition to Object Technology. 466-476
• Wiebke Reimer: Version-Based Index Management in an Object Database Systems to Support Software Engineering Applications. 477-492

Large Scale Environments

• Arnd G. Grosse, Dietmar A. Kottmann, Jörn Hartroth: Disseminating Object-Oriented Applications in Large Scale Environments. 493-503
• Gianpaolo Cugola, Carlo Ghezzi: CJava: Introducing Concurrent Objects in Java. 504-514