20. VLDB 1994: Santiago de Chile, Chile

Heterogeneous and Federated Databases

• Wen-Syan Li, Chris Clifton:
  Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases Using Neural Networks. 1-12
  
• Norbik Bashah Idris, W. A. Gray, R. F. Churchhouse:
  Providing Dynamic Security Control in a Federated Database. 13-23
  
• Dirk Jonscher, Klaus R. Dittrich:
  An Approach for Building Secure Database Federations. 24-35
  

Issues on Architectures

• Waqar Hasan, Rajeev Motwani:
  Optimization Algorithms for Exploiting the Parallelism-Communication Tradeoff in Pipelined Parallelism. 36-47
  
• H. V. Jagadish, Daniel F. Lieuwen, Rajeev Rastogi, Abraham Silberschatz, S. Sudarshan:
  Dalí: A High Performance Main Memory Storage Manager. 48-59
  
• Mukesh K. Mohania, Nandlal L. Sarda:
  Some Issues in Design of Distributed Deductive Databases. 60-71
  

Performance and Optimization

• Kurt P. Brown, Manish Mehta, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny:
  Towards Automated Performance Tuning for Complex Workloads. 72-84
  
• César A. Galindo-Legaria, Arjan Pellenkoft, Martin L. Kersten:
  Fast, Randomized Join-Order Selection - Why Use Transformations? 85-95
  
• Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Yehoshua Sagiv:
  Query Optimization by Predicate Move-Around. 96-107
  

Object Oriented Databases

• Eric Amiel, Marie-Jo Bellosta, Eric Dujardin, Eric Simon:
  Supporting Exceptions to Schema Consistency to Ease Schema Evolution in OODBMS. 108-119
  
• Janet L. Wiener, Jeffrey F. Naughton:
  Bulk Loading into an OODB: A Performance Study. 120-131
  
• Christine Collet, Thierry Coupaye, T. Svensen:
  NAOS - Efficient and Modular Reactive Capabilities in an Object-Oriented Database System. 132-143
  

Spatial Databases

• Raymond T. Ng, Jiawei Han:
  Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining. 144-155
  
• Erik G. Hoel, Hanan Samet:
  Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations. 156-167
  
• Thomas Brinkhoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel:
  The Impact of Global Clustering on Spatial Database Systems. 168-179
  

Indexing

• Christoph Kilger, Guido Moerkotte:
  Indexing Multiple Sets. 180-191
  
• Eric W. Brown, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft:
  Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval. 192-202
  
• B. Sreenath, S. Seshadri:
  The hcC-tree: An Efficient Index Structure for Object Oriented Databases. 203-213
  

Transaction Management

• Ada Wai-Chee Fu, David Wai-Lok Cheung:
  A Transaction Replication Scheme for a Replicated Database with Node Autonomy. 214-225
  
• Mourad Ouzzani, M. A. Atroun, N. L. Belkhodja:
  A Top-Down Approach for Two Level Serializability. 226-237
  
• V. W. Setzer, Andrea Zisman:
  New Concurrency Control Algorithms for Accessing and Compacting B-Trees. 238-248
  

Object Oriented Databases

• Narain H. Gehani, H. V. Jagadish, William D. Roome:
  OdeFS: A File System Interface to an Object-Oriented Database. 249-260
  
• Fabrizio Ferrandina, Thorsten Meyer, Roberto Zicari:
  Implementing Lazy Database Updates for an Object Database System. 261-272
  
• Jürgen Frohn, Georg Lausen, Heinz Uphoff:
  Access to Objects by Path Expressions and Rules. 273-284
  

Modelling and Querying

• Maguelonne Teisseire, Pascal Poncelet, Rosine Cicchetti:
  Towards Event-Driven Modelling for Database Design. 285-296
  
• Ralf Hartmut Güting:
  GraphDB: Modeling and Querying Graphs in Databases. 297-308
  
• Terry Gaasterland, Jorge Lobo:
  Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences. 309-320
  

Storage Management

• Maurício R. Mediano, Marco A. Casanova, Marcelo Dreux:
  V-Trees - A Storage Method for Long Vector Data. 321-330
  
• Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Ming-Syan Chen, Philip S. Yu:
  On Index Selection Schemes for Nested Object Hierarchies. 331-341
  
• Witold Litwin, Marie-Anne Neimat, Donovan A. Schneider:
  RP*: A Family of Order Preserving Scalable Distributed Data Structures. 342-353
  

Query Processing

• Surajit Chaudhuri, Kyuseok Shim:
  Including Group-By in Query Optimization. 354-366
  
• Odysseas G. Tsatalos, Marvin H. Solomon, Yannis E. Ioannidis:
  The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence. 367-378
  
• Diane L. Davison, Goetz Graefe:
  Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins. 379-390
  

Database Programming Languages

• Alejandro Gutiérrez, Philippe Pucheral, Hermann Steffen, Jean-Marc Thévenin:
  Database Graph Views: A Practical Model to Manage Persistent Graphs. 391-402
  
• Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmidt:
  Persistent Threads. 403-414
  
• Alexandra Poulovassilis, Carol Small:
  Investigation of Algebraic Query Optimisation Techniques for Database Programming Languages. 415-426
  

Buffering

• Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann:
  Dual-Buffering Strategies in Object Bases. 427-438
  
• Theodore Johnson, Dennis Shasha:
  2Q: A Low Overhead High Performance Buffer Management Replacement Algorithm. 439-450
  
• Raymond T. Ng, Jinhai Yang:
  Maximizing Buffer and Disk Utilizations for News On-Demand. 451-462
  

Deduction and Rules

• Maria L. Barja, Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, M. Howard Williams, Andrew Dinn:
  An Effective Deductive Object-Oriented Database Through Language Integration. 463-474
  
• Elena Baralis, Jennifer Widom:
  An Algebraic Approach to Rule Analysis in Expert Database Systems. 475-486
  
• Rakesh Agrawal, Ramakrishnan Srikant:
  Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases. 487-499
  

Implementation Issues

• Ibrahim Kamel, Christos Faloutsos:
  Hilbert R-tree: An Improved R-tree using Fractals. 500-509
  
• Ambuj Shatdal, Chander Kant, Jeffrey F. Naughton:
  Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing. 510-521
  
• Zhaohui Xie, Jiawei Han:
  Join Index Hierarchies for Supporting Efficient Navigations in Object-Oriented Databases. 522-533
  

Temporal and GIS

• Suryanarayana M. Sripada, Beat Wüthrich:
  Cumulative Updates. 534-545
  
• Hongjun Lu, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan:
  On Spatially Partitioned Temporal Join. 546-557
  
• David J. DeWitt, Navin Kabra, Jun Luo, Jignesh M. Patel, Jie-Bing Yu:
  Client-Server Paradise. 558-569
  

Images

• A. Prasad Sistla, Clement T. Yu, R. Haddad:
  Reasoning About Spatial Relationships in Picture Retrieval Systems. 570-581
  
• Tzi-cker Chiueh:
  Content-Based Image Indexing. 582-593
  
• Banu Özden, Alexandros Biliris, Rajeev Rastogi, Abraham Silberschatz:
  A Low-Cost Storage Server for Movie on Demand Databases. 594-605
  

Querying

• Sharma Chakravarthy, V. Krishnaprasad, Eman Anwar, S.-K. Kim:
  Composite Events for Active Databases: Semantics, Contexts and Detection. 606-617
  
• Hennie J. Steenhagen, Peter M. G. Apers, Henk M. Blanken, Rolf A. de By:
  From Nested-Loop to Join Queries in OODB. 618-629
  
• Alain Pirotte, Esteban Zimányi, David Massart, Tatiana Yakusheva:
  Materialization: A Powerful and Ubiquitous Abstraction Pattern. 630-641
  

Invited Talks

• Alice H. Muntz, Christian T. Ramiller:
  A Requirement-Based Approach to Data Modeling and Re-Engineering. 643-654
  
• Michael Lesk:
  Experiments on Access to Digital Libraries: How can Images and Text be Used Together. 655-667
  

Industrial Cases

• Arnon Rosenthal, Leonard J. Seligman:
  Data Integration in the Large: The Challenge of Reuse. 669-675
  
• Sarabjot S. Anand, David A. Bell, John G. Hughes:
  An Empirical Performance Study of the Ingres Search Accelerator for a Large Property Management Database System. 676-685
  
• Rune Hjelsvold, Roger Midtstraum:
  Modelling and Querying Video Data. 686-694
  
• Balakrishna R. Iyer, David Wilhite:
  Data Compression Support in Databases. 695-704
  
• Philip A. Bernstein, Umeshwar Dayal:
  An Overview of Repository Technology. 705-713
  
• Munir Cochinwala, John Bradley:
  A Multidatabase System for Tracking and Retrieval of Financial Data. 714-721
  
• Nathan Goodman, Steve Rozen, Lincoln Stein:
  Building a Laboratory Information System Around a C++-Based Object-Oriented DBMS. 722-729
  
• Bruce E. Martin, R. G. G. Cattell:
  Relating Distributed Objects. 730-739
  
• Tak W. Yan, Jurgen Annevelink:
  Integrating a Structured-Text Retrieval System with an Object-Oriented Database System. 740-749
  

Panels

• Stefano Spaccapietra:
  User Interfaces; Who Cares? 751
  
• Maria Zemankova, Yannis E. Ioannidis:
  Scientific Databases - State of the Art and Future Directions. 752-753
  
• Philip A. Bernstein:
  PC Database Systems - Present and Future. 754
  
• Alon Y. Levy, Abraham Silberschatz, Divesh Srivastava, Maria Zemankova:
  Challenges for Global Information Systems. 755