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

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A. Hameurlain, A. Min Tjoa
Springer Science & Business Media, Aug 20, 1997 - Business & Economics - 688 pages
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.
 

Contents

Images
14
WebEnabling IRODB
28
An Extensible Approach to Reactive Processing in an Advanced Object Modelling
50
ObjectOriented Databases I
70
Benattou L Lakhal France 68
91
A Declarative Active Approach
113
Modelling II
134
O Pastor E Insfrán V Pelechano S Ramirez Spain 132
154
K Karlapalem N M Pun Hong Kong 347
369
Data Interchange
Y Seo D H Lee K S Moon J Chang J Y Lee C Y Han Korea 387
J Aramburu Cabo R Berlanga Llavori Spain 409
Transaction Concepts
Learning Issues
Optimization and Performance
Performance Aspects

ObjectOriented Environment for Collaborative Software Design
172
A TimeStamped Authoring Graph for Video Databases
204
An Approach to Spatiotemporal Queries IntervalBased Contents Representation
214
A New ContentBased Image Retrieval System
237
Integrity Constraints
252
Structuring the Process of Integrity Maintenance
274
Multimedia Databases
288
Encapsulating Multimedia Contents and a Copyright Protection Mechanism into
305
Deductive Databases and Knowledge Based Systems
324
Invited Lectures
325
Modelling Negative and Disjunctive Information in Relational Databases
349
An Algebraic Query Language for ObjectOriented Data Models
Maintenance of Materialized Views
Federated Databases
On the Query Treatment in Federated Systems
Uncertainty Handling and Qualitative Reasoning
Text Knowledge Engineering by Qualitative Terminological Learning
Software Engineering and Reusable Software
A Henrich Germany 653
Remarks
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