Next Generation Information System Technology: First International East/West Data Base Workshop, Kiev, USSR, October 9-12, 1990. Procceedings

Currently, the field of information systems technology is rapidly extending into several dimensions. There is the semantic dimension (including object orientation, data deduction and extended knowledge representation schemes), there is improved systems integration, and there are new tools. All these extensions aim to provide semantically richer and better engineered information systems that allow for more adequate and complete representations and thus extend the effective use of database te...