Ebook: Database and Expert Systems Applications: 8th International Conference, DEXA '97 Toulouse, France, September 1–5, 1997 Proceedings

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA '97, held in Toulouse, France, September 1997. The 62 revised full papers presented in the book, together with three invited contributions, were selected from a total of 159 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on modeling, object-oriented databases, active and temporal aspects, images, integrity constraints, multimedia databases, deductive databases and knowledge-based systems, allocation concepts, data interchange, digital libraries, transaction concepts, learning issues, optimization and performance, query languages, maintenance, federated databases, uncertainty handling and qualitative reasoning, and software engineering and reusable software.

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This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA '97, held in Toulouse, France, September 1997. The 62 revised full papers presented in the book, together with three invited contributions, were selected from a total of 159 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on modeling, object-oriented databases, active and temporal aspects, images, integrity constraints, multimedia databases, deductive databases and knowledge-based systems, allocation concepts, data interchange, digital libraries, transaction concepts, learning issues, optimization and performance, query languages, maintenance, federated databases, uncertainty handling and qualitative reasoning, and software engineering and reusable software.

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This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA '97, held in Toulouse, France, September 1997. The 62 revised full papers presented in the book, together with three invited contributions, were selected from a total of 159 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on modeling, object-oriented databases, active and temporal aspects, images, integrity constraints, multimedia databases, deductive databases and knowledge-based systems, allocation concepts, data interchange, digital libraries, transaction concepts, learning issues, optimization and performance, query languages, maintenance, federated databases, uncertainty handling and qualitative reasoning, and software engineering and reusable software.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Connecting databases to the web: A taxonomy of gateways....Pages 1-15
Multimedia federated databases on intranets: Web-enabling IRO-DB....Pages 16-27
A terminological canonical data model for cooperating heterogeneous geographical information systems....Pages 28-37
An extensible approach to reactive processing in an advanced object modelling environment....Pages 38-47
Constructing the functional model....Pages 48-57
Horizontal class partitioning in object-oriented databases....Pages 58-67
Incremental inheritance model for an OODBMS....Pages 68-80
A clustering technique for object-oriented databases....Pages 81-90
Design and implementation of TEMPO fuzzy triggers....Pages 91-100
Supporting and maintaining derivations: A declarative active approach active approach....Pages 101-111
Modeling histories in object DBMS....Pages 112-121
Activity threads: A unified framework for aiding behavioural modelling....Pages 122-131
Linking object-oriented conceptual modeling with object-oriented implementation in Java....Pages 132-141
Toward a unified data model for large hypermedia applications....Pages 142-151
Managing the global behavior of composite objects....Pages 152-161
Heuristic clustering of database objects according to multi-valued attributes....Pages 162-171
Object-oriented environment for collaborative software design....Pages 172-181
Refined termination decision in active databases....Pages 182-191
A time-stamped authoring graph for video databases....Pages 192-201
An approach to spatio-temporal queries....Pages 202-213
An image retrieval system based on the visualization of system relevance via documents....Pages 214-224
ImageRoadMap: A new content-based image retrieval system....Pages 225-239
First steps to a formal framework for multilevel database modifications....Pages 240-251
Versions of integrity constraints in multiversion databases....Pages 252-261
Structuring the process of integrity maintenance....Pages 262-275
A retrieval mechanism for semi-structured photographic collections....Pages 276-292
Encapsulating multimedia contents and a copyright protection mechanism into distributed objects....Pages 293-302
A priority-driven inheritance scheme for temporal-spatial structures in multimedia databases....Pages 303-312
Relational database reverse engineering and terminological reasoning....Pages 313-323
Efficient answer extraction of deductive databases modeled by HLPN....Pages 324-336
Modeling negative and disjunctive information in relational databases....Pages 337-346
Query-driven data allocation algorithms for distributed database systems....Pages 347-356
A general multidimensional data allocation method for multicomputer database systems....Pages 357-366
Distribution object oriented databases: An allocation method....Pages 367-376
A meta message approach for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)....Pages 377-386
Schemaless representation of semistructured data and schema construction....Pages 387-396
Metadata for a digital library of historical documents....Pages 397-408
Assembling documents from digital libraries....Pages 409-418
Two-layer transaction management for workflow management applications....Pages 419-429
Crash recovery in an open and safe nested transaction model....Pages 430-439
A machine learning workbench in a DOOD framework....Pages 440-451
Examining complex objects for type scheme discovery....Pages 452-461
A framework for algebraic optimization of object-oriented query languages....Pages 462-477
A library application on top of an RDBMS: Performance aspects....Pages 478-487
Analysis of nearest neighbor query performance in multidimensional index structures....Pages 488-497
A query language and interface for integrated media and alphanumeric database systems....Pages 498-507
An algebraic query language for object-oriented data models....Pages 508-518
The development of ordered SQL packages for modelling advanced applications....Pages 519-528
Incremental update algorithms for materialized spatial views by using view derivation relationships....Pages 529-538
Incremental maintenance of materialized views....Pages 539-550
Federated information management for cooperative virtual organizations....Pages 551-560
Extending a view mechanism to support schema evolution in federated database systems....Pages 561-572
On the query treatment in federated systems....Pages 573-582
Query processing and transforming for a federated database System....Pages 583-592
Valid or complete information in databases —A possibility theory-based analysis—....Pages 593-602
Handling imperfection in databases: A modal logic approach....Pages 603-612
Text knowledge engineering by qualitative terminological learning....Pages 613-622
A tesseral approach to N-dimensional spatial reasoning....Pages 623-632
Guidance for requirements engineering processes....Pages 633-642
Repository based software cost estimation....Pages 643-652
Using a generic approach to support the construction of methods....Pages 653-662
The role of structural events in behaviour specification....Pages 663-672
Back Matter....Pages 673-686
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