2. EDBT 1990: Venice, Italy

• Title, Foreword, Sponsorship, Organization, Program Commitee, External Referees.
  
• Table of Contents. vii-ix
  

Opening

• Carlo Zaniolo:
  Deductive Databases - Theory Meets Practice. 1-15
  

Data Structures

• Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates:
  An Adaptive Overflow Technique for B-trees. 16-28
  
• C. Mohan, Donald J. Haderle, Yun Wang, Josephine M. Cheng:
  Single Table Access Using Multiple Indexes: Optimization, Execution, and Concurrency Control Techniques. 29-43
  
• Elisa Bertino:
  Optimization of Queries using Nested Indices. 44-59
  

Data Models

• Daniel Barbará, Hector Garcia-Molina, Daryl Porter:
  A Probalilistic Relational Data Model. 60-74
  
• Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter J. H. King:
  Extending the Functional Data Model to Computational Completeness. 75-91
  
• Leonid A. Kalinichenko:
  Methods and Tools for Equivalent Data Model Mapping Construction. 92-119
  

Deductive Database Systems

• Catriel Beeri, Yoram Kornatzky:
  The Many Faces of Query Monotonicity. 120-135
  
• Yuki Kusumi, Shojiro Nishio, Toshiharu Hasegawa:
  File Access Level Optimization Using Page Access Graph on Recursive Query Evaluation. 136-152
  
• Danette Chimenti, Ruben Gamboa, Ravi Krishnamurthy:
  Abstract Machine for LDL. 153-168
  

Query Processing

• B. Paul Jenq, Darrell Woelk, Won Kim, Wan-Lik Lee:
  Query Processing in Distributed ORION. 169-187
  
• Arbee L. P. Chen:
  A Localized Approach to Distributed Query Processing. 188-202
  
• Fausto Rabitti, Pasquale Savino:
  Retrieval of Multimedia Documents by Imprecise Query Specification. 203-218
  

Complex Objects

• Ulrich Herrmann, Peter Dadam, Klaus Küspert, E. A. Roman, Gunter Schlageter:
  A Lock Technique for Disjoint and Non-Disjoint Complex Objects. 219-237
  
• Shamkant B. Navathe, Aloysius Cornelio:
  Modeling Physical Systems by Complex Structural Objects and Complex Functional Objects. 238-252
  
• George P. Copeland, Michael J. Franklin, Gerhard Weikum:
  Uniform Object Management. 253-268
  

Database Programming Languages

• David W. Stemple, Leonidas Fegaras, Tim Sheard, Adolfo Socorro:
  Exceeding the Limits of Polymorphism in Database Programming Languages. 269-285
  
• Elke A. Rundensteiner, Lubomir Bic:
  Set Operations in a Data Model Supporting Complex Objects. 286-300
  
• Richard C. H. Connor, Alan Dearle, Ronald Morrison, Fred Brown:
  Existentially Quantified Typed as a Database Viewing Mechanism. 301-315
  

Panel

• David Maier:
  Panel: Has Theory Brought Anything to Database Systems and Will It in the Future? 316
  

Object-Oriented Systems

• T. Lougenia Anderson, Arne-Jørgen Berre, Moira Mallison, Harry H. Porter, Bruce Schneider:
  The HyperModel Benchmark. 317-331
  
• Gilles Barbedette:
  LISPO₂: a Persistent Object-Oriented Lisp. 332-347
  
• Peter Lyngbæk, W. Kevin Wilkinson, Waqar Hasan:
  The Iris Kernel Architecture. 348-362
  

Time, Object-Oriented and Active Systems

• Michèle Cart, Jean Ferrié:
  Integrating Concurrency Control into an Object-Oriented Database System. 363-377
  
• Klaus Hülsmann, Gunter Saake:
  Representation of the Historical Information Necessary for Temporal Integrity Monitoring. 378-392
  
• Sharma Chakravarthy, Susan Nesson:
  Making an Object-Oriented DBMS Active: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Prototype. 393-406
  

Rules

• Yuli Zhou, Meichun Hsu:
  A Theory for Rule Triggering Systems. 407-421
  
• Francisca Antunes, Seán Baker, Brian Caulfield, Mauricio Lopez, Mark Sheppard:
  A Pragmatic Approach for Integrating Data Management and Tasks Management: Modelling and Implementation Issues. 422-436
  
• Anthony J. Bonner, Tomasz Imielinski:
  The Reuse and Modification of Rulebases by Predicate Substituation. 437-451
  

Panel

• Michele Missikoff:
  Panel: ``Why are object-oriented folks producing systems, while deductive foks are producing papers?''. 452