Advances in Database Research
The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:
Preface
Invited Talks
Recent Advances in Transaction Management
Implementation of Very Generalised Data Structures
Data and Storage Structures
Indexing in an Extensible Database System
Storage Management for Files of Dynamic Records
A Guideline for Implementing Access Method Modules in Extensible DBMS MODUS
Database Design
Design of Object-Oriented Databases — From Functional Specifications to Object Structures
Mapping One-to-One Predicates to a Relational Schema
A Design Process of Databases Based on a Fuzzy Object-Oriented Approach
Distributed Database Design
Horizontal Partitioning for Distributed Database Design: A Graph-Based Approach
On Horizontal Fragmentation of Distributed Database Design
A New Graphical Method for Vertical Partitioning in Database Design
Integrity Constraints
Improving Integrity Checking by Compiling Derivation Paths
Using Weakest Preconditions to Simplify Integrity Constraint Checking
Integrity Preserving Updates in Object-Oriented Databases
Parallel and Distributed Databases
Querying Heterogeneous Databases: A Case Study
Design and Implementation of the Omega Object-Based System
Replicated Fragment Allocation Using a Clustering Technique
Interconnection Topologies for Shared Nothing DBMS Architectures
Deductive Databases
On Optimizing Uniformly Bounded Datalog Programs
Early Experience with Recursion Optimization in an Extensible Rewriter
Finiteness Properties of Database Queries
Theoretical Issues
Verification of a Two Pass Restart Algorithm for ARIES
A Temporal Algebra Based on an Abstract Model
Armstrong Relations for Functional and Multivalued Dependencies in Relational Databases
Application Development
The Intelligent Developer — Towards the Automated Implementation of Information Systems
Towards a General Theory for the Evolution of Application Domains
Control of a Management Information System by Rules
Author Index