Table of Contents

Communication costs in digital library databases.- METU Object-Oriented DBMS kernel.- Design and implementation of the spareC++ OODBPL.- Gaining a uniform view of different integration aspects in a prototyping environment.- A frame-based approach for interoperation support in multidatabase systems.- Developing distributed database applications using TSL.- Prints of the 17th Century in a distributed digital library system.- OASIS v2: A class definition language.- Design and implementation of object-oriented views.- A visual object-oriented query language for geographic information systems.- Capturing essential questions using question support facilities in the VIEW classroom.- A fuzzy model of managerial decision making incorporating risk and ambiguity aversion.- People oriented software technology, and its use in environmental reporting.- A cost evaluator for parallel database systems.- A performance study of declustering strategies for parallel spatial databases.- Benchmarking object-oriented database systems for CAD.- Combining reverse with forward database engineering a step forward to solve the legacy system dilemma.- Performance evaluation for clustering algorithms in object-oriented database systems.- Applied active databases for evolving image processing algorithms.- Spatial reasoning for GIS using a tesseral data representation.- A new dynamic signature file method in parallel processing environment.- General prools for consensus in distributed systems.- The multiple representation in an architectural application.- Simulation of schema change using views.- SGML/HyTime repositories: Requirements and data modelling using object-oriented database concepts.- A depository for structured text objects.- Issues on hypertext design.- A temporal logic based approach for querying lists, trees, and dags in databases.- Disjunctive ordered logic.- An algebraic rewriting theorem of multiple linear recursions and its applications.- A layered architecture for supporting objects in a relational system: A performance study.- An SQL extension supporting user viewpoints.- KBED: A Knowledge-Based Edge Detection System.- Understanding expert systems maintenance.- Evaluating case-based reasoning in a geological domain.- An expert loading system for chemical and product carriers.- FuzzyBase: A fuzzy logic aid for relational database queries.- EMIR2. An extended model for image representation and retrieval.- Rule evaluations in a KDD system.- Object-oriented knowledge based imputation.- Knowledge organization for exploration.- Data extraction from form images.- Compiling legal hypertexts.- Composition tools integration with a music database system.- Relational database reverse engineering: Extraction of an IFO2 schema.- Extended set operators for nested relations and complex objects.- Several implementations of persistent pointers in a memory-mapped I/O environment.- TOPYDE: A tool for physical database design.- Tightly secure transaction scheduler in multi-level secure database management systems.- A heuristic approach for optimization of path expressions.- Problem dimensions in design of CSCW systems.- A rule-driven transformation processor for bill of material data.- Functions of VIEW Conf to support dynamic features of meetings.- CICERO: An assistant for planning visits to a museum.- WASA: A workflow-based architecture to support scientific database applications.- MIDAS — the morphological component of the IDA system for efficient natural language interface design.- Partial match retrieval in two-headed disks.- Concurrency control in nestedtransactions with enhanced lock modes for KBMSs.- A measure for measure.- Information security concepts in Computer Supported Cooperative Work.- An intelligent self-guided vehicle for CIM systems.- Information system for onco-pathology.