Table of Contents

The role of intelligent software agents in advanced information systems.- Location and replication independent recovery in a highly available database.- Compensation-based query processing in on-line transaction processing systems.- Detection arcs for deadlock management in nested transactions and their performance.- Improved and optimized partitioning techniques in database query processing.- Query evaluation in CROQUE.- Optimisation of partitioned temporal joins.- Maintaining library catalogues with an RDBMS: A performance study.- Merging an active database and a reflective system: Modelling a new several active meta-levels architecture.- A framework for database mining.- Query processing techniques for partly inaccessible distributed databases.- Indexing multi-visual features in image database.- Customisable visual query interface to a heterogeneous database environment: A meta-programming based approach.- Automatic web interfaces and browsing for object-relational databases.- A mechanism for automating database interface design, based on extended E-R modelling.- Exploration of the requirements in a visual interface to tabular data.- DOA — the Deductive Object-oriented Approach to the development of adaptive natural language interfaces.- An efficient indexing scheme for objects with roles.- A prefetching technique for object-oriented databases.- WIND: A warehouse for internet data.- An object Versioning system to support collaborative design within a Concurrent Engineering context.- Schema integration with integrity constraints.- A method for integrating deductive databases.