Advances in Databases and Information Systems: Second East European Symposium, ADBIS’98 Poznań, Poland, September 7–10, 1998 Proceedings

Recent progress in data integration — A tutorial....Pages 1-2
Managing multimedia information in a database environment — A tutorial....Pages 3-5
Association rules... and what’s next? — Towards second generation data mining systems....Pages 6-25
Workflow management in the internet age....Pages 26-34
Untyped queries, untyped reflective machines and conditional quantifiers....Pages 35-45
Containment of conjunctive queries with built-in predicates with variables and constants over any ordered domain....Pages 46-57
Using queries with multi-directional functions for numerical database applications....Pages 58-70
Multiple range query optimization in spatial databases....Pages 71-82
Optimizing command logs by exploiting semantic knowledge....Pages 83-94
A distributed algorithm for global query optimization in multidatabase systems....Pages 95-106
Transaction management in databases supporting collaborative applications....Pages 107-118
Object-oriented design of a flexible workflow management system....Pages 119-130
Extending transaction closures by n-ary termination dependencies....Pages 131-142
Distributed information systems....Pages 143-146
Integrated web — Database applications for electronic business....Pages 147-150
Term weighting in query-based document clustering....Pages 151-153
Discovery of object-oriented schema and schema conflicts....Pages 154-156
On the ordering of rewrite rules....Pages 157-159
Towards data and object modelling....Pages 160-162
Propagation of structural modifications to an integrated schema....Pages 163-174
Integration of schemas containing data versions and time components....Pages 175-187
Deriving relationships between integrity constraints for schema comparison....Pages 188-199
A database interface integrating a query language for versions....Pages 200-211
nP-Tree: Region partitioning and indexing for efficient path planning....Pages 212-223
Replication in mirrored disk systems....Pages 224-235
Clustering techniques for minimizing object access time....Pages 236-247
Designing persistence for real-time distributed object systems....Pages 248-259
Partial replication of object-oriented databases....Pages 260-271
Optimizing knowledge discovery over the WWW....Pages 272-277
Data mining query language for object-oriented database....Pages 278-283
Itemset materializing for fast mining of association rules....Pages 284-295
Schema derivation for WWW information sources and their integration with databases in Bioinformatics....Pages 296-304
Component-based information systems development tool supporting the SYNTHESIS design method....Pages 305-327
Translating relational queries to object-oriented queries according to ODMG-93....Pages 328-338
A flexible framework for a correct database design....Pages 339-350
Human resources information systems improvement: Involving financial systems and other sources data....Pages 351-356
Physical structure design for relational databases....Pages 357-362
Modeling of census data in a multidimensional environment....Pages 363-368