18. BNCOD 2001: Chilton, UK

Brian J. Read (Ed.): Advances in Databases, 18th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 18, Chilton, UK, July 9-11, 2001, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2097 Springer 2001, ISBN 3-540-42265-X

Invited Papers

Alexander Maedche, Steffen Staab, Nenad Stojanovic, Rudi Studer, York Sure:
SEAL - A Framework for Developing SEmantic Web PortALs. 1-22
Tony Hey:
E-Science and the Grid. 23

Performance and Optimisation

Richard D. Regan, Alex Delis:
An Analysis of Main-Memory and Log Space Usage in Extended Ephemeral Logging. 24-42
Yuanling Zhu, Kevin Lü:
An Effective Data Placement Strategy for XML Documents. 43-56
Nicholas J. Caine, Suzanne M. Embury:
LOIS: The ``Lights Out'' Integrity Subsystem. 57-74

Objects - Design & Development

Henrik Gustavsson, Brian Lings:
CASE-Tool Interchange of Design Transformations. 75-88
Weiping Zhang, Norbert Ritter:
The Real Benefits of Object-Relational DB-Technology for Object-Oriented Software Development. 89-104
A. Al-Khudair, W. A. Gray, John C. Miles:
Object-Oriented Versioning in a Concurrent Engineering Design Environment. 105-125

Query Optimisation

Henk Ernst Blok, Arjen P. de Vries, Henk M. Blanken, Peter M. G. Apers:
Experiences with IR TOP N Optimization in a Main Memory DBMS: Applying `the Database Approach' in New Domains. 126-151
Kai-Uwe Sattler, Oliver Dunemann, Ingolf Geist, Gunter Saake, Stefan Conrad:
Limiting Result Cardinalities for Multidatabase Queries Using Histograms. 152-167
Florian Waas, Martin L. Kersten:
Memory Aware Query Routing in Interactive Web-Based Information Systems. 168-184

Querying Objects

Agathoniki Trigoni, Gavin M. Bierman:
Inferring the Principal Type and the Schema Requirements of an OQL Query. 185-201
Ayman Ammoura, Osmar R. Zaïane, Yuan Ji:
Immersed Visual Data Mining: Walking the Walk. 202-218