4. ADC 1993: Brisbane

Maria E. Orlowska, Mike P. Papazoglou (Eds.): Advances in Database Research, Proceedings of the 4th Australian Database Conference ADC'93, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1-2 February 1993, World Scientific, 1993, ISBN 981-02-1331-X

Invited Talks

Alan Fekete: Recent Advances in Transaction Management. 1-9
Graeme Simsion: Implementation of Very Generalised Data Structures (Abstract). 10

Data and Storage Structures

Lukas Relly, Alan J. Kent: Indexing in an Extensible Database System. 11-25
Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat, Ron Sacks-Davis: Storage Management for Files of Dynamic Records. 26-38
Kazutaka Furuse, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Kazunori Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Nobuo Ohbo: A Guideline for Implementing Access Method Modules in Extensible DBMS MODUS. 39-54

Database Design

Janusz R. Getta: Design of Object-Oriented Databases - From Functional Specifications to Object Structures. 55-67
Peter R. Ritson, Terry A. Halpin: Mapping One-to-One Predicates to a Relational Schema. 68-84
Annie Cavarero, Carlos Gonzalez: A Design Process of Databases Based on a Fuzzy Object-Oriented Approach. 85-100

Distributed Database Design

Minyoung Ra: Horizontal Partitioning for Distributed Database Design: A Graph-Based Approach. 101-120
Yanchun Zhang: On Horizontal Fragmentation of Distributed Database Design. 121-130
Xuemin Lin, Yanchun Zhang: A New Graphical Method of Vertical Partitioning in Database Design. 131-144

Integrity Constraints

Matilde Celma, Juan Carlos Casamayor, Hendrik Decker: Improving Integrity Checking by Compiling Derivation Paths. 145-160
Michael Lawley, Rodney W. Topor, Mark Wallace: Using Weakest Preconditions to Simplify Integrity Constraint Checking. 161-170
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Bernhard Thalheim, Ingrid Wetzel: Integrity Preserving Updates in Object-Oriented Databases. 171-185

Parallel and Distributed Databases

Alexandre Lefebvre, Peter Bernus, Rodney W. Topor: Querying Heterogeneous Databases: A Case Study. 186-197
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Vera Choi, Clifford Ker, Kai-Ming Lin: Design and Implementation of the Omega Object-Based System. 198-209
George Semeczko: Replicated Fragment Allocation Using a Clustering Methodology. 210-227
Martin Hitz, Thomas A. Mück: Interconnection Topologies for Shared Nothing DBMS Architectures. 228-249

Deductive Databases

Jia Liang Han: On Optimizing Uniformly Bounded Datalog Programs. 250-261
Jerome Fessy, Béatrice Finance: Early Experience with Recursion Optimization in an Extensible Rewriter. 262-273
Inderpal Singh Mumick, Oded Shmueli: Finiteness Properties of Database Queries. 274-288

Theoretical Issues

Dean Kuo: Verification of a Two Pass Restart Algorithm for ARIES. 289-300
Mehmet A. Orgun, Hausi A. Müller: A Temporal Algebra Based on an Abstract Model. 301-316
Millist W. Vincent, Bala Srinivasan: Armstrong Relations for Functional and Multivalued Dependencies in Relational Databases. 317-328

Application Development

Anthony Berglas: The Intelligent Developer: Towards the Automated Implementation of Information Systems. 329-345
Henderik Alex Proper, Theo P. van der Weide: Towards a General Theory for the Evolution of Application Domains. 346-362
Eva Gardyn, Keith G. Jeffery: Control of a Management Information System by Rules. 363-376