Table of Contents

• Research and Development of Advanced Database Systems for Integration of Media and User EnvironmentsYahiko Kambayashi. 3-4
• Genome Informatics: New Frontiers of Computer Science and BiosciencesSatoru Miyano. 12-21
• Meme Media and DatabasesYuzuru Tanaka. 22
• Implemented Applications of the Carnot Heterogeneous Database SystemMichael N. Huhns. 35-43
• A Flexible Integration Framework for Supporting User Requirement Changes in a Multidatabase EnvironmentRehab M. Duwairi, N. J. Fiddian, W. A. Gray. 44-47
• Rule Based Database Integration in HIPED: Heterogeneous Intelligent Processing in Engineering DesignShamkant B. Navathe, Sameer Mahajan, Edward Omiecinski. 48-55
• A Rule-based Strategy for Transforming Relational Schemas into OO SchemasYangjun Chen, Wolfgang Benn. 56-59
• Issues in an Entity-Relationship Based Federated Database SystemTok Wang Ling, Mong-Li Lee. 60-69
• Issues on Query Processing in Distributed and Interoperable Information SystemsLing Liu, Calton Pu. 70-79
• On the Query Optimization in MultidatabasesYangjun Chen, Wolfgang Benn. 84-91
• Query Processing for Integration of Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Outer JoinsKoichi Munakata. 92-99
• Aggregation in Federated Databases: The DOK ApproachZahir Tari. 100-107
• An Overview of the VenusDB Active Multidatabase SystemDaniel P. Miranker, Lance Obermeyer. 108-117
• Path Finding in Distributed Spatial DatabasesYan-Nong Huang. 118-125
• A System Platform for Mobile Computing Based on Active DatabasesToru Murase, Masahiko Tsukamoto, Shojiro Nishio. 126-129
• Mobile Computing Architecture for a Battlefield EnvironmentOmran A. Bukhres, Stuart Morton, Merrick Mossman. 130-139
• Multimedia Server on EthernetShunichiro Nakamura, Harumi Minemura, Tomohisa Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Shimizu, Takashi Watanabe, Tadanori Mizuno. 140
• Pro-active Information Elicitation in Wide-Area Information NetworksMike P. Papazoglou, Steven Milliner. 149-158
• Active Dissemination of Information by Autonomous Information ResourcesHiroshi Matsumoto, Shunsuke Uemura. 159-162
• Accessing Active Application-oriented DBMS from the World Wide WebFrédéric Andrès, Jihad Boulos, Kinji Ono. 171-173
• Toward the World-Wide DatabaseNobuyoshi Miyazaki. 174-177
• A Federated Database for Hypermedia Development for the WWWDaniel M. Germán, Donald D. Cowan. 178-181
• Integrity Constraints for Reference Links in Hypermedia Database SystemsEitetsu Oomoto, Youichi Shima. 182-185
• A Framework for Hyperdocument Generation in an Object-Oriented Database EnvironmentAna Maria de Carvalho Moura, Joao Roberto de T. Quadros. 186-189
• Processing Hypertext Link DescriptionsAndreas Myka, Ulrich Güntzer. 190
• Indexing, Query Interface and Query Processing for Venus: A Video Database SystemTony C. T. Kuo, Arbee L. P. Chen. 201-209
• Utilizing Prototype Objects and Powerdomains to Support Public Authoring of Video DatabasesSujeet Pradhan, Keishi Tajima, Katsumi Tanaka. 210-217
• Knowledge Representation, Concept Acquisition and Retrieval of Video DataKuniaki Uehara, Meguru Oe, Keita Maehara. 218-225
• Article Extraction and Classification of TV News Using Image and Speech ProcessingYasuo Ariki, M. Sakurai, Yoshiaki Sugiyama. 226-233
• Management of QoS for Real-Time Shared Three Dimensional Virtual SpacesMasatoshi Arikawa, Akira Amano, Kaori Maeda, Reiji Aibara, Shinji Shimojo, Yasuaki Nakamura, Kaduo Hiraki, Kouji Nishimura, Mutsuhiro Terauchi, Kitsutaro Amano. 242-245
• Data Analysis by Positive Decision TreesKazuhisa Makino, Takashi Suda, Kojin Yano, Toshihide Ibaraki. 257-264
• Attribute Oriented Mining Algorithm with Entropy-based Cost FunctionsMinoru Kawahara, Hiroyuki Kawano, Toshiharu Hasegawa. 265-268
• Data Mining in Large Free Text Document ArchivesDieter Merkl, A. Min Tjoa. 269-276
• Preliminary Experimental Results of a Parallel Association Rule Mining on ATM Connected PC ClustersMasato Oguchi, Takahiko Shintani, Takayuki Tamura, Masaru Kitsuregawa. 277-280
• Incremental Maintenance Techniques for Discovered Classification RulesChris P. Rainsford, Mukesh K. Mohania, John F. Roddick. 281-284
• Paradigm for Scheme DiscoveryTakao Miura, Isamu Shioya. 285-292
• Algorithms for Adapting Materialised Views in Data WarehousesMukesh K. Mohania, Guozhu Dong. 309-316
• HyperView: Generating Virtual Hypermedia in Decentralized EnvironmentsShin ichi Konomi, Yahiko Kambayashi. 317-320
• A Batch Manufacturing Information Management System Based on Multidimensional View Generation and Active MechanismHideyuki Takada, Hiromitsu Shimakawa, Yoshitomo Asano, Morikazu Takegaki. 321-328
• Incremental Maintenance of Materialized Path Query OODB ViewsHarumi A. Kuno, Elke A. Rundensteiner. 329-336
• Export Database Derivation and Query Processing for Object-Oriented WrappersEe-Peng Lim, Hon-Kuan Lee. 337
• Transaction Models Supporting Cooperative Work - The TransCoop ExperiencesKarl Aberer, Justus Klingemann, Thomas Tesch, Jürgen Wäsch, Erich J. Neuhold. 347-356
• The Semi Transaction Model for Cooperative Database ManagementJai-Hyuk Lee, Yoon-Joon Lee, Pyung-Chul Kim. 357-352
• Mnesia - An Industrial DBMS with Transactions, Distribution and a Logical Query LanguageHans Nilsson, Claes Wikstrom. 363-366
• A Transaction Processing Architecture for Effective Load Balancing Utilizing High Speed BusTetsuro Kakeshita, Susumu Kubo. 376-379
• Concurrency Control Based on Order Constraints in Advanced Database SystemsHaiyan Xu, Tetsuya Furukawa, Yihua Shi. 380-385
• Object-Oriented Serializability in Real-Time Concurrency ControlKenichi Asai, Junpei Nishibayashi, Kouji Yoshihara, Motoyasu Nagata. 384
• Casual meetings in a NetworkToru Ishida, Hirofumi Yamaki, Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toshikazu Nishimura. 391-397
• Cooperative Problem Solving: A New Direction for Active DatabasesMikael Berndtsson, Sharma Chakravarthy, Brian Lings. 398-401
• A Database Environment for Workflow Specification and ExecutionDominique Jean, Andrzej Cichocki, Marek Rusinkiewicz. 402-411
• Flexible Workflow Framework for Supporting Collaborative WorksTakeo Kunishima, Kazumasa Yokota. 412-419
• An Interval-Based Approach to a Spatio-Temporal Data Model for Virtual Collaborative EnvironmentsYoshifumi Masunaga. 420-427
• A Temporal Join Mechanism Based on Trie-Ranking Data StructureC. Y. Chen, Chin-Chen Chang, Richard C. T. Lee, D. C. Lin. 428-435
• Temporal Query Processing Using Spatially-Partitioned MethodDuk-Ho Chang, Jong Soo Kim, Myoung-Ho Kim. 436-439
• Semantic Modeling of Successive Events Applied to Version ManagementJ. H. ter Bekke. 440
• An Overview of the ROL LanguageMengchi Liu. 451-458
• Object-Oriented Standards: Can ODMG OQL be Extented to a Programming Language?Kazimierz Subieta. 459-468
• On the Possibility of Path Expressions Containing Backward Navigations in Object-Oriented DatabasesNobutaka Suzuki, Minoru Ito, Jun Okui. 469-476
• Database Queries as Combinatorial Optimization ProblemsShuichi Miyazaki, Kazuo Iwama, Yahiko Kambayashi. 477-483
• Describing Integrity Constraints in Advanced Database SystemsYihua Shi, Tetsuya Furukawa, Haiyan Xu. 484-491
• On Translation of Complex Value Calculus Queries with Arithmatic OperatorsHong-Cheu Liu, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chaiyaporn Chirathamjaree. 492-495
• Database Structures, Based on Tries, for Text, Spatial, and General DataT. H. Merrett, Heping Shang, Xiaoyan Zhao. 507-515
• Effective Clustering of Records for Fast Query ProcessingKotagiri Ramamohanarao, Evan P. Harris. 516-525
• Optimal Bit Lengths of Direction Signatures for Spatial Match Accessing Using Basic Linear Hashing SchemeChin-Feng Lee, Chin-Chen Chang. 526-529
• SignatureCache: An Efficient Access Structure for Distributed Mediated EnvironmentsYoshiharu Ishikawa, Shunsuke Uemura. 538-541
• Composite Bit-Sliced Signature File: An Efficient Access Method for Set-Valued Object RetrievalHiroyuki Kitagawa, Kohei Fukushima. 542-549
• Query Size Estimation using Systematic SamplingBanchong Harangsri, John Shepherd, Anne H. H. Ngu. 550-553
• Quad-B Tree for Point DataVincent Ng, Tiko Kameda. 554-560
• Index Splitting for Complex Objects in Parallel EnvironmentsKazuhiro Ogura, Tatsuo Tsuji, Teruhisa Hochin. 561-564
• An Optimization Technique of Discrimination Networks in Active Database Systems for Massively Parallel ProcessingJun Miyazaki, Haruo Yokota. 565-568
• Design of Dynamic Load Balancing Mechanisms for Massively Parallel Object-Oriented DatabasesTsuyoshi Ono, Takaaki Horibuchi, Kenji Imasaki, Hirofumi Amano, Akifumi Makinouchi. 569-572