Table of Contents

The promise of distributed computing and the challenges of legacy systems.- Object oriented requirements capture and analysis — The ORCA project.- A model for versioning of classes in object-oriented databases.- A Storage manager for the Hypernode model.- Views and formal implementation in a three-level schema architecture for dynamic objects.- The meiko computing surface: A parallel & scalable open systems platform for Oracle.- A study of a parallel database machine and its performance the NCR/Teradata DBC/1012.- Control of a large massively parallel database machine using sQL catalogue extensions, and a DSDL in preference to an operating system.- Integration of modal logic and the functional data model.- The Raleigh activity model: Integrating versions, concurrency, and access control.- A graphical data modelling program with constraint specification and management.- Association merging in a schema metaintegration system for a heterogeneous Object-Oriented database environment.- Generating active rules from high-level specifications.- Employing integrity constraints for query modification and intensional answer generation in multi-database systems.