1. EDBT 1988: Venice, Italy

• Table of Contents. vii-x
  

Invited Paper

• Luca Cardelli:
  Types for Data-Oriented Languages. 1-15
  

Databases and Logic

• Ravi Krishnamurthy, Carlo Zaniolo:
  Optimization in a Logic Based Language for Knowledge and Data Intensive Applications. 16-33
  
• Peter M. D. Gray, David S. Moffat, Norman W. Paton:
  A Prolog Interface to a Functional Data Model Database. 34-48
  
• Jiawei Han, Ghassan Z. Qadah, Chinying Chaou:
  The Processing and Evaluation of Transitive Closure Queries. 49-75
  

Expert System Approaches to Databases

• Angelika M. Kotz, Klaus R. Dittrich, Jutta A. Mülle:
  Supporting Semantic Rules by a Generalized Event/Trigger Mechanism. 76-91
  
• Ming-Chien Shan:
  Optimal Plan Search in a Rule-Based Query Optimizer. 92-112
  
• Corine Cauvet, C. Proix, Colette Rolland:
  Information System Design: An Expert System Approach. 113-133
  

Distributed Databases and Transaction Management

• Catriel Beeri, Hans-Jörg Schek, Gerhard Weikum:
  Multi-Level Transaction Management, Theoretical Art or Practical Need ? 134-154
  
• Elisa Bertino, Laura M. Haas:
  Views and Security in Distributed Database Management Systems. 155-169
  
• V. Belcastro, A. Dutkowski, W. Kaminski, M. Kowalewski, C. L. Mallamaci, S. Mezyk, Tommaso Mostardi, F. P. Scrocco, Witold Staniszkis, G. Turco:
  An Overview of the Distributed Query System DQS. 170-189
  

Database Administration

• Amit P. Sheth, James A. Larson, Evan Watkins:
  TAILOR, A Tool for Updating Views. 190-213
  
• Stephanie J. Cammarata:
  An Intelligent Information Dictionary for Semantic Manipulation of Relational Databases. 214-230
  
• Fausto Rabitti, Darrell Woelk, Won Kim:
  A Model of Authorization for Object-Oriented and Semantic Databases. 231-250
  

Complex Database Objects

• David Beech:
  A Foundation for Evolution from Relational to Object Databases. 251-270
  
• Serge Abiteboul, Stéphane Grumbach:
  COL: A Logic-Based Language for Complex Objects. 271-293
  
• Mark Levene, George Loizou:
  A Universal Relation Model for Nested Relations. 294-308
  

Efficient Data Access

• Witold Litwin, Djamel Eddine Zegour, Gérard Lévy:
  Multilevel Trie Hashing. 309-335
  
• Andrea Sikeler:
  VAR-PAGE-LRU A Buffer Replacement Algorithm Supporting Different Page Sizes. 336-351
  
• Andreas Hutflesz, Hans-Werner Six, Peter Widmayer:
  The Twin Grid File: A Nearly Space Optimal Index Structure. 352-363
  
• Soon Myoung Chung, P. Bruce Berra:
  A Comparison of Concatenated and Superimposed Code Word Surrogate Files for Very Large Data/Knowledge Bases. 364-387
  
• Ghassan Z. Qadah:
  Filter-Based Join Algorithms on Uniprocessor and Distributed-Memory Multiprocessor Database Machines. 388-413
  

Efficiency by Replicated Data

• Amir Milo, Ouri Wolfson:
  Placement of Replicated Items in Distributed Databases. 414-427
  
• Akhil Kumar, Arie Segev:
  Optimizing Voting-Type Algorithms for Replicated Data. 428-442
  
• Rafael Alonso, Daniel Barbará, Hector Garcia-Molina, Soraya Abad:
  Quasi-Copies: Efficient Data Sharing for Information Retrieval Systems. 443-468
  

Data Types and Data Semantics

• Lawrence Chung, Daniel Rios-Zertuche, Brian A. Nixon, John Mylopoulos:
  Process Management and Assertion Enforcement for a Semantic Data Model. 469-487
  
• François Bry, Hendrik Decker, Rainer Manthey:
  A Uniform Approach to Constraint Satisfaction and Constraint Satisfiability in Deductive Databases. 488-505
  

Spatial Data

• Ralf Hartmut Güting:
  Geo-Relational Algebra: A Model and Query Language for Geometric Database Systems. 506-527
  
• Nikos A. Lorentzos, Roger G. Johnson:
  An Extension of the Relational Model to Support Generic Intervals. 528-542
  

Short Project Papers

• Jack Metthey, José Cotta:
  ESPRIT: Trends & Challenges in DB Technology. 543-548
  

Support for Data- and Knowledge-Based Applications

• Domenico Saccà:
  Support for Data- and Knowledge-Based Applications - Introduction by the Session Chairman. 549-550
  
• Stefano Ceri, Stefano Crespi-Reghizzi, Georg Gottlob, F. Lamperti, Luigi Lavazza, Letizia Tanca, Roberto Zicari:
  The Algres Project. 551-555
  
• Christophe Lécluse, Philippe Richard, Fernando Vélez:
  O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model. 556-562
  
• Alexandre V. Zamulin:
  Data Base Programming Tools in the Atlant Language. 563-566
  
• Antonio Albano, L. Alfò, S. Coluccini, Renzo Orsini:
  An Overview of Sidereus: A Graphical Database Schema Editor for Galileo. 567-571
  
• Towards KBMS for Software Development: An Overview of the DAIDA Project. 572-577
  
• Sonia Bergamaschi, Flavio Bonfatti, Claudio Sartori:
  Entity-Situation: A Model for the Knowledge Representation Module of a KBMS. 578-582
  
• Serge Himbaut:
  Tell-Me: A Natural Language Query System. 583-587
  

Distributed Database Applications

• Giuseppe Pelagatti:
  Distributed Database Applications - Introduction by the Session Chairman. 588-589
  
• Peter M. G. Apers, Martin L. Kersten, Hans Oerlemans:
  PRISMA Database Machine: A Distributed, Main-Memory Approach. 590-593
  
• M. Driouche, Y. Gicquel, Brigitte Kerhervé, G. Le Gac, Yann Lepetit, G. Nicaud:
  Sabrina-RT, A Distributed DBMS for Telecommunications. 594-599
  
• Dirk Ellinghaus, Matthias Hallmann, Bernhard Holtkamp, Klaus-Dieter Kreplin:
  A Multidatabase System for Transnational Accounting. 600-605
  
• Elisa Bertino, Fausto Rabitti, Costantino Thanos:
  MULTOS: a Document Server for Distributed Office Systems. 606-615
  
• Wolfgang Johannsen, Winfried Lamersdorf, Kurt Reinhardt, Joachim W. Schmidt:
  The DURES Project: Extending Datbases into an Open System Architecture. 616-620