5. EDBT 1996: Avignon, France

• Title, Foreword, Sponsorship, Organization, Program Commitee, Additional Referees.
  

Data Mining

• Ramakrishnan Srikant, Rakesh Agrawal:
  Mining Sequential Patterns: Generalizations and Performance Improvements. 3-17
  
• Manish Mehta, Rakesh Agrawal, Jorma Rissanen:
  SLIQ: A Fast Scalable Classifier for Data Mining. 18-32
  

Active Databases

• Georg Gottlob, Guido Moerkotte, V. S. Subrahmanian:
  The PARK Semantics for Active Rules. 35-55
  
• Rosa Meo, Giuseppe Psaila, Stefano Ceri:
  Composite Events in Chimera. 56-76
  

Design Tools

• Paolo Atzeni, Riccardo Torlone:
  Management of Multiple Models in an Extensible Database Design Tool. 79-95
  
• Udo Kelter, Dirk Däberitz:
  An Assessment of Non-Standard DBMSs for CASE Environments. 96-113
  
• Xiaolei Qian:
  Correct Schema Transformations. 114-128
  

Advanced DBMS

• Oris Friesen, Alexandre Lefebvre, Laurent Vieille:
  VALIDITY: Applications of a DOOD System. 131-134
  
• Daisy Bonjour:
  The Need for an Object Relational Model and its Use. 135-139
  
• Ashish Gupta, H. V. Jagadish, Inderpal Singh Mumick:
  Data Integration using Self-Maintainable Views. 140-144
  

Optimization

• Peter A. Boncz, Wilko Quak, Martin L. Kersten:
  Monet And Its Geographic Extensions: A Novel Approach to High Performance GIS Processing. 147-166
  
• Surajit Chaudhuri, Kyuseok Shim:
  Optimizing Queries with Aggregate Views. 167-182
  
• Hennie J. Steenhagen, Rolf A. de By, Henk M. Blanken:
  Translating OSQL-Queries into Efficient Set Expressions. 183-197
  

Data Mining and Warehousing

• Gérard Pavillon:
  Knowledge Discovery from Epidemiological Databases. 201-204
  

System Issues

• Michael Rabinovich, Narain H. Gehani, Alex Kononov:
  Scalable Update Propagation in Epidemic Replicated Databases. 207-222
  
• Brad Adelberg, Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina:
  Database Support for Efficiently Maintaining Derived Data. 223-240
  
• Paolo Ciaccia:
  Optimal Multi-Block Read Schedule for Partitioned Signature Files. 241-255
  

Applications

• Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Osamu Ichikawa, Shunsuke Uemura:
  Amalgamating SGML Documents and Databases. 259-274
  
• Hugh E. Williams, Justin Zobel:
  Indexing Nucleotide Databases for Fast Query Evaluation. 275-288
  
• I-Min A. Chen, Victor M. Markowitz, Stanley Letovsky, Peter Li, Kenneth H. Fasman:
  Version Management for Scientific Databases. 289-303
  

Temporal Databases

• David Toman, Damian Niwinski:
  First-Order Queries over Temporal Databases Inexpressible in Temporal Logic. 307-324
  
• Michael H. Böhlen, Jan Chomicki, Richard T. Snodgrass, David Toman:
  Querying TSQL2 Databases with Temporal Logic. 325-341
  
• Elisa Bertino, Elena Ferrari, Giovanna Guerrini:
  A Formal Temporal Object-Oriented Data Model. 342-356
  

The Web and Hypermedia

• Lois M. L. Delcambre, Catherine Hamon, Michel Biezunski, Radhika Reddy, Steven R. Newcomb:
  Dynamic Development and Refinement of HyperMedia Documents. 359-362
  
• Sheldon J. Finkelstein, Eric Lemoine, René Lenaers:
  MATISSE: A Multimedia Web DBMS. 363
  
• Brian Baker:
  Doing Business with the Web: The Informix/Illustra Approach. 364-369
  

Performance

• Chengwen Liu, Hao Chen:
  A Hash Partition Strategy for Distributed Query Processing. 373-387
  
• Euthimios Panagos, Alexandros Biliris, H. V. Jagadish, Rajeev Rastogi:
  Fine-granularity Locking and Client-Based Logging for Distributed Architectures. 388-402
  
• Andreas Gawecki, Florian Matthes:
  Exploiting Persistent Intermediate Code Representations in Open Database Environments. 403-423
  

Workflow Management

• Mohan Kamath, Gustavo Alonso, Roger Günthör, C. Mohan:
  Providing High Availability in Very Large Worklflow Management Systems. 427-442
  
• Fabio Casati, Stefano Ceri, Barbara Pernici, Giuseppe Pozzi:
  Semantic Workflow Interoperability. 443-462
  
• Anthony J. Bonner, Adel Shrufi, Steve Rozen:
  LabFlow-1: A Database Benchmark for High-Throughput Workflow Management. 463-478
  

Esprit Projects

• Luc Bouganim, Benoît Dageville, Patrick Valduriez:
  Adaptive Parallel Query Execution in DBS3. 481-484
  
• Peter Fankhauser, Béatrice Finance, Wolfgang Klas:
  IRO-DB: Making Relational and Object-Oriented Database Systems Interoperable. 485-489
  
• Jerome Fessy, Yann Lepetit, Philippe Pucheral:
  Object Query Services for Telecommunication Networks. 490-493
  

Database Design

• Dimitris Plexousakis, John Mylopoulos:
  Accomodating Integrity Constraints During Database Design. 497-513
  
• Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick:
  Reasoning with Aggregation Constraints. 514-534
  
• Hendrik Decker, Ernest Teniente, Toni Urpí:
  How to Tackle Schema Validation by View Updating. 535-549
  

Parallel Databases

• Peter Muth, Achim Kraiss, Gerhard Weikum:
  LoT: Dynamic Declustering of TSB-Tree Nodes for Parallel Access to Temporal Data. 553-572
  
• Jonas S. Karlsson, Witold Litwin, Tore Risch:
  LH*LH: A scalable High Performance Data Structure for Switched Multicomputers. 573-591
  
• Nick Koudas, Christos Faloutsos, Ibrahim Kamel:
  Declustering Spatial Databases on a Multi-Computer Architecture. 592-614
  

Advanced Applications

• Marco Emrich:
  Object Framework for Business Applications. 617-620
  
• Qiming Chen, Umeshwar Dayal:
  Commit Scope Control in Nested Transactions. 621-624
  
• David E. Simmen, Eugene J. Shekita, Timothy Malkemus:
  Fundamental Techniques for Order Optimization. 625-628
  

Technology Transfer and Cooperation

• Gio Wiederhold:
  Dealing with Asynchrony in Technology Transfer. 631-634
  

• Index of Authors. 635-636