Data & Knowledge Engineering, Volume 21, 1996

Volume 21, Number 1, 1 December, 1996

• Rex Blankinship, Alan R. Hevner, S. Bing Yao:
  An Iterative Method for Distributed Database Optimization. 1-30
  
• Silvana Castano, Giancarlo Martella, Pierangela Samarati:
  Analysis, Comparison and Design of Role-Based Security Specifications. 31-55
  
• Roger H. L. Chiang, Terence M. Barron, Veda C. Storey:
  A Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Reverse Engineering Methods for Relational Databases. 57-77
  
• Susan V. Vrbsky:
  A Data Model for Approximate Query Processing of Real-Time Databases. 79-102
  

Volume 21, Number 2, January 1997

• Mokrane Bouzeghoub:
  Natural Language for Data Bases - Preface to the Special Issue. 109-110
  
• Ana Paula Ambrosio, Elisabeth Métais, Jean-Noël Meunier:
  The Linguistic Level: Contribution for Conceptual Design, View Integration, Reuse and Documentation. 111-129
  
• J. F. M. Burg, Reind P. van de Riet:
  The Impact of Linguistics on Conceptual Models: Consistency and Understandability. 131-146
  
• Bram van der Vos, Jon Atle Gulla, Reind P. van de Riet:
  Verification of Conceptual Models Based on Linguistic Knowledge. 147-163
  
• Paul Johannesson:
  Supporting Schema Integration by Linguistic Instruments. 165-182
  
• Isabelle Mirbel:
  Semantic Integration of Conceptual Schemas. 183-195
  
• Patrick Saint-Dizier:
  Semantic Verb Classes and Lexical Conceptual Structures for Enhancing the Conceptual Modelling and the Access to Databases. 197-211
  

Volume 21, Number 3, February 1997

• Domenico Beneventano, Sonia Bergamaschi:
  Incoherence and Subsumption for Recursive Views and Queries in Object-Oriented Data Models. 217-252
  
• Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, Han Reichgelt:
  Handling Inheritance in a System Integrating Logic in Objects. 253-280
  
• Vijay Kumar:
  KRISHNA - An Efficient Concurrency Control Algorithm Based on Dynamic Attributes of Transactions and its Performance. 281-296
  
• Peretz Shoval, Sagit Shiran:
  Entity-Relationship and Object-Oriented Data Modeling-an Experimental Comparison of Design Quality. 297-315
  
• Bernd van Linder, Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules Ch. Meyer:
  The Dynamics of Default Reasoning. 317-346
  
• Sang B. Yoo, Sang Kyun Cha:
  Integrity Maintenance in a Heterogeneous Engineering Database Environment. 347-363