Data & Knowledge Engineering, Volume 27, 1998

Volume 27, Number 1, August 1998

Fabio Crestani, Massimo Melucci:
A Case study of Automatic Authoring: From a Textbook to a Hyper-Textbook. 1-30
Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Remmert Remmerts de Vries:
A Reference Architecture for Workflow Management Systems. 31-57
Michael Halper, James Geller, Yehoshua Perl:
An OODB Part-Whole Model: Semantics, Notation and Implementation. 59-95
Rokia Missaoui, Robert Godin, Houari A. Sahraoui:
Migrating to an Object-Oriented Database Using Semantic Clustering and Transformation Rules. 97-113

C. Anantaram, G. Nagaraja, K. V. Nori:
Verification of Accuracy of Rules in a Rule Based System. 115-138
Wen-Syan Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Kyoji Hirata, Yoshinori Hara:
Hierarchical Image Modeling for Object-Based Media Retrieval. 139-176
Qianhong Liu, Peter A. Ng:
A Query Generalizer for Providing Cooperative Responses in an Office Document System. 177-205
Olga Sourina, Seng H. Boey:
Geometric Query Types for Data Retrieval in Relational Databases. 207-229
Frank Shou-Cheng Tseng, Jeng-Jye Chiang, Wei-Pang Yang:
Integration of Relations with Conflicting Schema Structures in Heterogeneous Database Systems. 231-248

Andrew J. McAllister:
Complete Rules for n-Ary Relationship Cardinality Constraints. 255-288
Te-Wei Chiang, Hai-Yen Hau, Hwan-Ming Chiang, Su-Yun Ko, Chao-Ho Hsieh:
Knowledge-Based System for Railway Scheduling. 289-312
Yannis Theodoridis, Dimitris Papadias, Emmanuel Stefanakis, Timos K. Sellis:
Direction Relations and Two-Dimensional Range Queries: Optimisation Techniques. 313-336
Jan Vanthienen, Christophe Mues, Ann Aerts:
An Illustration of Verification and Validation in the Modelling Phase of KBS Development. 337-352