Advanced Database Systems

COMPOSE: A system for composite specification and detection.- Access controls in object-oriented database systems - Some approaches and issues.- The decomposition property of non-deterministic databases.- The architecture of an object base environment for simulation.- Transition from a relation to object model implementation.- An object-oriented knowledge model for KBMS-supported evolutionary prototyping of software systems.- Applying OOAD in the design and implementation of an intelligent geographic information system.- Indexical databases.- A temporal query language for a conceptual model.- A data model for time-series analysis.- A relational model and SQL-like query language for spatial databases.- Parallel query processing.- Towards flexible distributed information retrieval.- Efficient parallel recovery in replicated databases.- Document allocation in multiprocessor information retrieval systems.- Amalgame: A tool for creating interoperating persistent, heterogeneous components.- Correctness and enforcement of multidatabase interdependencies.- FEMUS: A federated multilingual database system.- Communication and synchronization issues in distributed multimedia database systems.- Multimedia database systems.