Table of Contents

Mining sequential patterns: Generalizations and performance improvements.- SLIQ: A fast scalable classifier for data mining.- The PARK semantics for active rules.- Composite events in Chimera.- Management of multiple models in an extensible database design tool.- An assessment of non-standard DBMSs for CASE environments.- Correct schema transformations.- VALIDITY: Applications of a DOOD system.- The need for an object relational model and its use.- Data integration using self-maintainable views.- Monet and its geographical extensions: A novel approach to high performance GIS processing.- Optimizing queries with aggregate views.- Translating OSQL queries into efficient set expressions.- Knowledge discovery from epidemiological databases.- Scalable update propagation in epidemic replicated databases.- Database support for efficiently maintaining derived data.- Optimal multi-block read schedules for partitioned signature files.- Amalgamating SGML documents and databases.- Indexing nucleotide databases for fast query evaluation.- Version management for scientific databases.- First-order queries over temporal databases inexpressible in temporal logic.- Querying TSQL2 databases with temporal logic.- A formal temporal object-oriented data model.- Dynamic development and refinement of Hypermedia documents.- MATISSE: A multimedia web DBMS.- Doing business with the web: The Informix/Illustra approach.- A hash partition strategy for distributed query processing.- Fine-granularity locking and client-based logging for distributed architectures.- Exploiting persistent intermediate code representations in open database environments.- Providing high availability in very large workflow management systems.- Semantic workflow interoperability.- LabFlow-1: A database benchmark for high-throughput workflow management.- Adaptive parallel query execution in DBS3.- IRO-DB: Making relational and Object-Oriented Database Systems Interoperable.- Object query services for telecommunication networks.- Accommodating integrity constraints during database design.- Reasoning with aggregation constraints.- How to tackle schema validation by view updating.- LoT: Dynamic declustering of TSB-tree nodes for parallel access to temporal data.- LH*lh: A scalable high performance data structure for switched multicomputers.- Declustering spatial databases on a multi-computer architecture.- Object framework for business applications.- Commit scope control in nested transactions.- Fundamental techniques for order optimization.- Dealing with asynchrony in technology transfer.