7. ICDT 1999: Jerusalem, Israel
Catriel Beeri, Peter Buneman (Eds.): Database Theory - ICDT '99, 7th International Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, January 10-12, 1999, Proceedings. Springer 1999 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-65452-6
Invited Talks
Malcolm P. Atkinson, Mick J. Jordan: Issues Raised by Three Years of Developing PJama: An Orthogonally Persistent Platform for Java. 1-30
Christos H. Papadimitriou: Novel Computational Approaches to Information Retrieval and Data Mining (Abstract). 31
Tutorial
Maurizio Lenzerini: Description Logics and Their Relationships with Databases. 32-38
Query Languages
Lucian Popa, Val Tannen: An Equational Chase for Path-Conjunctive Queries, Constraints, and Views. 39-57
Frank Neven, Martin Otto, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, Jan Van den Bussche: Adding For-Loops to First-Order Logic. 58-69
Logic
Martin Grohe, Julian Mariño: Definability and Descriptive Complexity on Databases of Bounded Tree-Width. 70-82
Performance I

Joseph M. Hellerstein, Lisa Hellerstein, George Kollios: On the Generation of 2-Dimensional Index Workloads. 113-130
Matthias Nicola, Matthias Jarke: Increasing the Expressiveness of Analytical Performance Models for Replicated Databases. 131-149
Concurrency and Distribution
Gustavo Alonso, Armin Fessler, Guy Pardon, Hans-Jörg Schek: Transactions in Stack, Fork, and Join Composite Systems. 150-168
Ouri Wolfson, Liqin Jiang, A. Prasad Sistla, Sam Chamberlain, Naphtali Rishe, Minglin Deng: Databases for Tracking Mobile Units in Real Time. 169-186
Constraint Databases
Bart Kuijpers, Jan Van den Bussche: On Capturing First-Order Topological Properties of Planar Spatial Databases. 187-198
Stéphane Grumbach, Philippe Rigaux, Luc Segoufin: On the Orthographic Dimension of Constraint Databases. 199-216
Index Structures
Kevin S. Beyer, Jonathan Goldstein, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Uri Shaft: When Is ''Nearest Neighbor'' Meaningful? 217-235
S. Muthukrishnan, Viswanath Poosala, Torsten Suel: On Rectangular Partitionings in Two Dimensions: Algorithms, Complexity, and Applications. 236-256
Kothuri Venkata Ravi Kanth, Ambuj K. Singh: Optimal Dynamic Range Searching in Non-replicating Index Structures. 257-276
Semi-structured Data
Catriel Beeri, Tova Milo: Schemas for Integration and Translation of Structured and Semi-structured Data. 296-313
Mediation
Gösta Grahne, Alberto O. Mendelzon: Tableau Techniques for Querying Information Sources through Global Schemas. 332-347
Ramana Yerneni, Chen Li, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Hector Garcia-Molina: Optimizing Large Join Queries in Mediation Systems. 348-364
Computational Issues
Chaoyi Pang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Guozhu Dong: Incremental FO(+, <) Maintenance of All-Pairs Shortest Paths for Undirected Graphs after Insertions and Deletions. 365-382
Luca Cabibbo, Riccardo Torlone: A Framework for the Investigation of Aggregate Functions in Database Queries. 383-397
Nicolas Pasquier, Yves Bastide, Rafik Taouil, Lotfi Lakhal: Discovering Frequent Closed Itemsets for Association Rules. 398-416
Views

Foto N. Afrati, Manolis Gergatsoulis, Theodoros G. Kavalieros: Answering Queries Using Materialized Views with Disjunctions. 435-452
Himanshu Gupta, Inderpal Singh Mumick: Selection of Views to Materialize Under a Maintenance Cost Constraint. 453-470



