Table of Contents

Design of active rule applications: Issues and approaches.- Composite temporal events in active database rules: A logic-oriented approach.- Run-Time detection of non-terminating active rule systems.- Active database rules with transaction-conscious stable-model semantics.- Efficiently following object references for large object collections and small main memory.- ELS-programs and the efficient evaluation of non-stratified programs by transformation to ELS.- Practical behavior of parallelization strategies for Datalog.- An experimental distributed deductive database system.- The implementation of a deductive query language over an OODB.- A query translation scheme for rapid implementation of wrappers.- Deductive and object data languages: A quest for integration.- Deep equality revisited.- Structured objects: Modeling and reasoning.- Inheritance reasoning by regular sets in knowledge-bases with dot notation.- Resolving ambiguities caused by multiple inheritance.- Efficient processing of queries containing user-defined predicates.- Query processing in IRO-DB.- Querying semistructured heterogeneous information.- Deductive object-oriented programming for knowledge-base independence.- Montague grammars as deductive databases.- A mixed approach to negation in general Datalog programs.- Transaction safety in deductive object-oriented databases.- Concurrency and recovery for typed objects using a new commutativity relation.- Transforming relational database schemas into object-oriented schemas according to ODMG-93.- Combining resolution and classification for semantic query optimization in DOOD.- Semantic query optimization for object queries.- Normalization and compilation of deductive and object-oriented database programs for efficient query evaluation.- A model of authorization for object-oriented databases based on object views.- Authorization analysis of queries in object-oriented databases.- On the specification of views in DOOD systems.