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  W. A. Gray, Per-Åke Larson (Eds.): Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Data Engineering, April 7-11, 1997 Birmingham U.K. IEEE Computer Society 1997 ISBN 0-8186-7807-0

Keynote Speech

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  William Baker: Universal Access versus Universal Storage. 2

Indexing and Pre-Fetching in OODBs

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  Jung-Ho Ahn, Hyoung-Joo Kim: SEOF: An Adaptable Object Prefetch Policy for Object-Oriented Database Systems. 4-13
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  Chee Yong Chan, Cheng Hian Goh, Beng Chin Ooi: Indexing OODB Instances based on Access Proximity. 14-21
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  Thomas A. Mück, Martin L. Polaschek: The Multikey Type Index for Persistent Object Sets. 22-31

Database Interoperability

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  Stefan Grufman, Fredrik Samson, Suzanne M. Embury, Peter M. D. Gray, Tore Risch: Distributing Semantic Constraints Between Heterogeneous Databases. 33-42
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  Silvana Castano, Valeria De Antonellis: Semantic Dictionary Design for Database Interoperability. 43-54
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  Susan B. Davidson, Anthony Kosky: WOL: A Language for Database Transformations and Constraints. 55-65

Object Schemas and Versions

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  Sven-Eric Lautemann: A Propagation Mechanism for Populated Schema Versions. 67-78
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  Svetlozar Nestorov, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Janet L. Wiener, Sudarshan S. Chawathe: Representative Objects: Concise Representations of Semistructured, Hierarchial Data. 79-90
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  Allison Woodruff, Michael Stonebraker: Supporting Fine-grained Data Lineage in a Database Visualization Environment. 91-102

Mobile Computing

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  Cedric C. F. Fong, John C. S. Lui, Man Hon Wong: Quantifying Complexity and Performance Gains of Distributed Caching in a Wireless Mobile Computing Environment. 104-113
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  Jun Cai, Kian-Lee Tan, Beng Chin Ooi: On Incremental Cache Coherency Schemes in Mobile Computing Environments. 114-123
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  Anindya Datta, Aslihan Celik, Jeong G. Kim, Debra E. VanderMeer, Vijay Kumar: Adaptive Broadcast Protocols to Support Power Conservant Retrieval by Mobile Users. 124-133

Multimedia Applications

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  Pamela D. Fisher: System Design for Digital Media Asset Management. 135-138
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  Peter DeVries: Media Asset Management: Managing Complex Data as a Re-Engineering Exercise. 139-148
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  Fred L. Wurden: Content is King, (If You Can Find It): A New Model for Knowledge Storage and Retrieval. 149-157

Query Processing

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  Jussi Myllymaki, Miron Livny: Relational Joins for Data on Tertiary Storage. 159-168
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  Min Wang, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Balakrishna R. Iyer: Selectivity Estimation in the Presence of Alphanumeric Correlations. 169-180
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  A. Prasad Sistla, Clement T. Yu, R. Venkatasubrahmanian: Similarity Based Retrieval of Videos. 181-190

Panel Discussion I

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  Erich J. Neuhold, Karl Aberer: Databases and the Web: What's in it for Databases? (Panel). 192

Data Warehousing

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  Clark D. French: Teaching an OLTP Database Kernel Advanced Data Warehousing Techniques. 194-198
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  Robert Armstrong: Data Warehousing: Dealing with the Growing Pains. 199-205

OLAP and Data Mining

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  Himanshu Gupta, Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ullman: Index Selection for OLAP. 208-219
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  Brian Lent, Arun N. Swami, Jennifer Widom: Clustering Association Rules. 220-231
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  Rakesh Agrawal, Ashish Gupta, Sunita Sarawagi: Modeling Multidimensional Databases. 232-243

Transaction Management

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  Qiming Chen, Umeshwar Dayal: Failure Handling for Transaction Hierarchies. 245-254
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  Yousef J. Al-Houmaily, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Steven P. Levitan: An Argument in Favour of Presumed Commit Protocol. 255-265
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  Cris Pedregal Martin, Krithi Ramamritham: Delegation: Efficiently Rewriting History. 266-275

Data Warehousing and Data Mining

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  Wilburt Labio, Dallan Quass, Brad Adelberg: Physical Database Design for Data Warehouses. 277-288
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  Yue Zhuge, Hector Garcia-Molina, Janet L. Wiener: Multiple View Consistency for Data Warehousing. 289-300
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  Kyuseok Shim, Ramakrishnan Srikant, Rakesh Agrawal: High-Dimensional Similarity Joins. 301-311

Parallel Servers

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  Gary Hallmark: Oracle Parallel Warehouse Server. 314-320
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  Pedro Celis, Hansjörg Zeller: Subquery Elimination: A Complete Unnesting Algorithm for an Extended Relational Algebra. 321

Managing Video Data

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  Y. M. Chiu, K. H. Yeung: Partial Video Sequence Caching Scheme for VOD Systems with Heterogeneous Clients. 323-332
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  Banu Özden, Rajeev Rastogi, Abraham Silberschatz: Periodic Retrieval of Videos from Disk Arrays. 333-343
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  M. Y. Y. Leung, John C. S. Lui, Leana Golubchik: Buffer and I/O Resource Pre-allocation for Implementing Batching and Buffering Techniques for Video-on-Demand Systems. 344-353

Performance Issues

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  Vibby Gottemukkala, Anant Jhingran, Sriram Padmanabhan: Interfacing Parallel Applications and Parallel Databases. 355-364
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  Elena Baralis, Andrea Bianco: Performance Evaluation of Rule Semantics in Active Databases. 365-374
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  Chialin Chang, Bongki Moon, Anurag Acharya, Carter Shock, Alan Sussman, Joel H. Saltz: Titan: A High-Performance Remote Sensing Database. 375-384

Indexing and Optimization

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  Kyle Peltonen: Adding Full Text Indexing to the Operating System. 386-390
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  Hamid Pirahesh, T. Y. Cliff Leung, Waqar Hasan: A Rule Engine for Query Transformation in Starburst and IBM DB2 C/S DBMS. 391-400

Object Models and Moving Objects

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  Raymond K. Wong, H. Lewis Chau, Frederick H. Lochovsky: A Data Model and Semantics of Objects with Dynamic Roles. 402-411
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  Bryon K. Ehlmann, Gregory A. Riccardi: Object Related Plus: A Practical Tool for Developing Enhanced Object Databases. 412-421
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  A. Prasad Sistla, Ouri Wolfson, Sam Chamberlain, Son Dao: Modeling and Querying Moving Objects. 422-432

Query Processing

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  Jacques Calmet, Sebastian Jekutsch, Joachim Schü: A Generic Query-Translation Framework for a Mediator Architecture. 434-443
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  John Grant, Jarek Gryz, Jack Minker, Louiqa Raschid: Semantic Query Optimization for Object Databases. 444-453

Data Modeling

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  Peter Lang, Werner Obermair, Michael Schrefl: Modeling Business Rules with Situation/Activation Diagrams. 455-464
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  Zahir Tari, John Stokes: Designing the Reengineering Services for the DOK Federated Database System. 465-475

Spatial Databases and GIS

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  Yun-Wu Huang, Ning Jing, Elke A. Rundensteiner: Integrated Query Processing Strategies for Spatial Path Queries. 477-486
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  Juliano Lopes de Oliveira, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Mariano Cilia: Active Customization of GIS User Interfaces. 487-496
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  Scott T. Leutenegger, J. M. Edgington, Mario A. Lopez: STR: A Simple and Efficient Algorithm for R-Tree Packing. 497-506

Panel Discussion III

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  Jiawei Han: Data Mining: Where is it Heading? (Panel). 508

Scalability and Distributed Systems

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  Shivakumar Venkataraman, Miron Livny, Jeffrey F. Naughton: Memory Management for Scalable Web Data Servers. 510-519
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  H. V. Jagadish, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Michael Rabinovich: Scalable Versioning in Distributed Databases with Commuting Updates. 520-531
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  Markus Sinnwell, Gerhard Weikum: A Cost-Model-Based Online Method for Ditributed Caching. 532-541

Real Time Databases, Concurrency Control

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  Sanjoy K. Baruah, Azer Bestavros: Pinwheel Scheduling for Fault-Tolerant Broadcast Disks in Real-time Database Systems. 543-551
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  Kwok-Wa Lam, Sang Hyuk Son, Sheung-lun Hung: A Priority Ceiling Protocol with Dynamic Adjustment of Serialization Order. 552-561
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  George T. Heineman, Gail E. Kaiser: The CORD Appraoch to Extensible Concurrency Control. 562-571

Plenary Panel Discussion

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  Surajit Chaudhuri, Rakesh Agrawal, Klaus R. Dittrich, Andreas Reuter, Abraham Silberschatz, Gerhard Weikum: New and Forgotten Dreams in Database Research (Panel). 573

Exhibition Papers

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  Jean-Marc Andreoli, Uwe M. Borghoff, Pierre-Yves Chevalier, Boris Chidlovskii, Remo Pareschi, Jutta Willamowski: The Constraint-Based Knowledge Broker System. 575
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  Paolo Atzeni, Alessandro Masci, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Merialdo, Elena Tabet: ULIXES: Building Relational Views over the Web. 576
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  Wernher Behrendt, N. J. Fiddian, Ajith P. Madurapperuma: Tools to Enable Interoperation of Heterogeneous Databases. 577
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  Sonia Bergamaschi, Domenico Beneventano, Claudio Sartori, Maurizio Vincini: ODB-QOPTIMIZER: A Tool for Semantic Query Optimization in OODB. 578
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  Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Stefano Paraboschi: The IDEA Tool Set. 579
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  I-Min A. Chen, Anthony Kosky, Victor M. Markowitz, Ernest Szeto: Developing and Accessing Scientific Databases with the OPM Data Management Tools. 580
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  Christine Collet, Thierry Coupaye, Luc Fayolle, Claudia Roncancio: NAOS Protyotype - Version 2.2. 581
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  Andrew Dinn, M. Howard Williams, Norman W. Paton: ROCK & ROLL: A Deductive Object-Oriented Database with Active and Spatial Extensions. 582
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  Jürgen Frohn, Rainer Himmeröder, Paul-Thomas Kandzia, Georg Lausen, Christian Schlepphorst: FLORID: A Prototype for F-Logic. 583
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  Richard Heider: Improving the Quality of Technical Data for Developing Case Based Reasoning Diagnostic Software for Aircraft Maintenance. 584
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  Graham N. C. Kirby, Ronald Morrison, David S. Munro, Richard C. H. Connor, Quintin I. Cutts: A Persistent Hyper-Programming System. 585
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  David Konopnicki, Oded Shmueli: W3QS - A System for WWW Querying. 586
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  Anca Vaduva, Stella Gatziu, Klaus R. Dittrich: Graphical Tools for Rule Development in the Active DBMS SAMOS. 587
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  J. Verso: Data Integration and Interrogation. 588
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  Janet L. Wiener, Himanshu Gupta, Wilburt Labio, Yue Zhuge, Hector Garcia-Molina: The WHIPS Prototype for Data Warehouse Creation and Maintenance. 589