Table of Contents

Connecting databases to the web: A taxonomy of gateways.- Multimedia federated databases on intranets: Web-enabling IRO-DB.- A terminological canonical data model for cooperating heterogeneous geographical information systems.- An extensible approach to reactive processing in an advanced object modelling environment.- Constructing the functional model.- Horizontal class partitioning in object-oriented databases.- Incremental inheritance model for an OODBMS.- A clustering technique for object-oriented databases.- Design and implementation of TEMPO fuzzy triggers.- Supporting and maintaining derivations: A declarative active approach active approach.- Modeling histories in object DBMS.- Activity threads: A unified framework for aiding behavioural modelling.- Linking object-oriented conceptual modeling with object-oriented implementation in Java.- Toward a unified data model for large hypermedia applications.- Managing the global behavior of composite objects.- Heuristic clustering of database objects according to multi-valued attributes.- Object-oriented environment for collaborative software design.- Refined termination decision in active databases.- A time-stamped authoring graph for video databases.- An approach to spatio-temporal queries.- An image retrieval system based on the visualization of system relevance via documents.- ImageRoadMap: A new content-based image retrieval system.- First steps to a formal framework for multilevel database modifications.- Versions of integrity constraints in multiversion databases.- Structuring the process of integrity maintenance.- A retrieval mechanism for semi-structured photographic collections.- Encapsulating multimedia contents and a copyright protection mechanism into distributed objects.- A priority-driven inheritance schemefor temporal-spatial structures in multimedia databases.- Relational database reverse engineering and terminological reasoning.- Efficient answer extraction of deductive databases modeled by HLPN.- Modeling negative and disjunctive information in relational databases.- Query-driven data allocation algorithms for distributed database systems.- A general multidimensional data allocation method for multicomputer database systems.- Distribution object oriented databases: An allocation method.- A meta message approach for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).- Schemaless representation of semistructured data and schema construction.- M-ary commitment prool with partially ordered domain.- Metadata for a digital library of historical documents.- Assembling documents from digital libraries.- Two-layer transaction management for workflow management applications.- Crash recovery in an open and safe nested transaction model.- A machine learning workbench in a DOOD framework.- Examining complex objects for type scheme discovery.- A framework for algebraic optimization of object-oriented query languages.- A library application on top of an RDBMS: Performance aspects.- Analysis of nearest neighbor query performance in multidimensional index structures.- A query language and interface for integrated media and alphanumeric database systems.- An algebraic query language for object-oriented data models.- The development of ordered SQL packages for modelling advanced applications.- Incremental update algorithms for materialized spatial views by using view derivation relationships.- Incremental maintenance of materialized views.- Federated information management for cooperative virtual organizations.- Extending a view mechanism to support schema evolution in federated database systems.- On the query treatment in federated systems.- Query processing and transforming for a federated database System.- Valid or complete information in databases —A possibility theory-based analysis—.- Handling imperfection in databases: A modal logic approach.- Text knowledge engineering by qualitative terminological learning.- A tesseral approach to N-dimensional spatial reasoning.- Guidance for requirements engineering processes.- Repository based software cost estimation.- Using a generic approach to support the construction of methods.- The role of structural events in behaviour specification.