Information Systems and Data Management

Conflictfreeness as a basis for schema integration.- Database schema design theory: Achievements and challenges.- Maintaining surrogate data for query acceleration in multilevel secure database systems.- Calibration of a DBMS cost model with the software testpilot.- ’Favourite’ SQL-statements — An empirical analysis of SQL-usage in commercial applications.- Static allocation in Distributed Objectbase Systems: A graphical approach.- Estimating data accuracy in a federated database environment.- A study of distributed transaction processing in an internetwork.- The use of an object repository in the configuration of control systems at CERN.- Implementation and performance evaluation of compressed bit-sliced signature files.- Partial migration in an 8mm tape based tertiary storage file system and its performance evaluation through satellite image processing applications.- Some aspects of rule discovery in data bases.- Telesensation fusion of multi-media information and information highways.- Relational database design using an ER approach and Prolog.- Supporting distributed individual work in cooperative specification development.- Handling changes in dynamic specifications in object oriented systems.- The rejuvenation of materialized views.- Normalization of linear recursions based on graph transformations.- Data retrieval and aggregates in SQL */NR.- Partitioning pipelines with communication costs.