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The fourth international conference on Extending Data Base Technology was held in Cambridge, UK, in March 1994. The biannual EDBT has established itself as the premier European database conference. It provides an international forum for the presentation of new extensions to database technology through research, development, and application. This volume contains the scientific papers of the conference. Following invited papers by C.M. Stone and A. Herbert, it contains 31 papers grouped into sections on object views, intelligent user interface, distributed information servers, transaction management, information systems design and evolution, semantics of extended data models,accessing new media, join algorithms, query optimization, and multimedia databases.
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Lecture Notes in ComputerScience Edited by G. Goos and J. Hartmanis Advisory Board: W. Brauer D. Gries J. Stoer
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Matthias Jarke Janis Bubenko Keith Jefferv (Eds.)
Advances in Database Technology EDBT '94 4th International Conference on Extending Database Technology Canabridge, United Kingdom, March 28-31, 1994 Proceedings
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Series Editors Gerhard Goos Universitat Karlsruhe Postfach 69 80 Vincenz-Priessnitz-StraBe 1 D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Juris Hartmanis Cornell University Department of Computer Science 4130 Upson Hall Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Volume Editors Matthias Jarke RWTH Aachen Ahomstrasse 55, D-52056 Aachen, Germany Janis Bubenko SISU-ISE Isafjordsgatan 26, S-1250 Kista, Sweden Keith Jeffery SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OXll 0QX, United Kingdom
CR Subject Classification (1991): H.2, E.2, D.3.3, E4.1, H.5.1, 1.2.1, 1.2.4
ISBN 3-540-57818-8 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN 0-387-57818-8 Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg
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Foreword
The fourth international conference on Extending Data Base Technology (EDBT 94) was held in St. John's College (Cambridge, UK), March 28-31, 1994. After successful events in Venice (1988 and 1990) and Vienna (1992), the bi-annual EDBT has established itself as the premier European database conference. The conference provides an international forum for the presentation of new extensions to database technology through research, development, emd ~pplication. This proceedings volume contains the scientific papers of the conference. The programme committee faced the difficult task of selecting 31 papers among more than 180 submissions from 28 different countries. A major theme seemed to be the integration of database technology as a core technology in the larger context of large-scale and distributed computing systems. This problem was addressed from many different angles, ranging from novel view concepts to data access in mobile computing. EDBT is the flagship conference of a broader initiative which strives to maintain the traditionally strong role of Europe in database research, and to improve the transition from resear