Advances in Database Technology — EDBT'98: 6th International Conference on Extending Database Technology Valencia, Spain, March 23–27, 1998 Proceedings

On the ubiquity of information services and the absence of guaranteed service quality....Pages 3-6
Processing complex similarity queries with distance-based access methods....Pages 9-23
HySpirit — A probabilistic inference engine for hypermedia retrieval in large databases....Pages 24-38
Towards optimal indexing for segment databases....Pages 39-53
Fusion queries over internet databases....Pages 55-71
Efficient queries over web views....Pages 72-86
Equal time for data on the internet with websemantics....Pages 87-101
Pincer-search: A new algorithm for discovering the maximum frequent set....Pages 103-119
Multivariate and multidimensional OLAP....Pages 120-134
Incremental generalization for mining in a data warehousing environment....Pages 135-149
Modeling large scale OLAP scenarios....Pages 151-167
Discovery-driven exploration of OLAP data cubes....Pages 168-182
A logical approach to multidimensional databases....Pages 183-197
Efficient dynamic programming algorithms for ordering expensive joins and selections....Pages 199-215
Improving the query performance of high-dimensional index structures by bulk load operations....Pages 216-230
An evaluation of alternative disk scheduling techniques in support of variable bit rate continuous media....Pages 231-245
Buffer management in distributed database systems: A data mining-based approach....Pages 246-260
Complex aggregation at multiple granularities....Pages 261-277
Parallel processing of multiple aggregate queries on shared-nothing multiprocessors....Pages 278-292
Minimizing detail data in data warehouses....Pages 293-307
Static management of integrity in object-oriented databases: Design and implementation....Pages 309-325
OCB: A generic benchmark to evaluate the performances of object-oriented database systems....Pages 326-340
A path removing technique for detecting trigger termination....Pages 341-355
The CVS algorithm for view synchronization in evolvable large-scale information systems....Pages 357-373
Integration of incremental view maintenance into query optimizers....Pages 374-388
Maintaining temporal views over non-temporal information sources for data warehousing....Pages 389-403
Referential actions: From logical semantics to implementation....Pages 404-418
A conceptual model and a tool environment for developing more scalable, dynamic, and customizable Web applications....Pages 419-435
Design and maintenance of data-intensive web sites....Pages 436-450
Dynamic and structured presentation of database contents on the Web....Pages 451-465
Mining process models from workflow logs....Pages 467-483
A scheme to specify and implement ad-hoc recovery in workflow systems....Pages 484-498
Exploring heterogeneous biological databases: Tools and applications....Pages 499-513