MFDBS 91 3rd Symposium on Mathematical Fundamentals of Database and Knowledge Base Systems, Rostock, Germany, May 6-9, 1991

This volume presents the proceedings of the 1991 Symposium on Mathematical Fundamentals of Database and Knowledge Base Systems, held in Rostock, FRG, May 6-9, 1991. This is the third in a series of biannual MFDBS conferences, which in future will be held together with ICDT, the International Confere...

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Other Authors: Thalheim, Bernhard (Editor), Demetrovics, Janos (Editor), Gerhardt, Hans-Detlef (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Complex object multi-level fixpoint queries
  • Classifying object-oriented query results in a class/type lattice
  • A relational algebra for complex objects based on partial information
  • Specifying operations for nested relations by rules and partial orders
  • On the relationship between well-founded and stable partial models
  • Monadic databases with equality
  • Actor-oriented specification of deontic integrity constraints
  • Solving ambiguities in updating deductive databases
  • On the mean execution time of recursive definitions on relational databases
  • Updating hierarchical databases by complex forms
  • A direct algorithm for computing the transitive closure of a two-dimensionally structured file
  • Multi-granularity locking for nested transaction systems
  • The Nested Interpolation Based Grid File
  • Complexity of recursive production rules execution
  • On the monotonicity of (LDL) logic programs with set
  • Semantic improvement of deductive databases
  • On the representation of dependencies by propositional logic
  • Pairwise-definable subdirect decompositions of general database schemata
  • Functional dependencies in hierarchical structures of data
  • Objects in relational database schemes with functional, inclusion and exclusion dependencies
  • Abstract data type semantics for many-sorted object query algebras
  • Temporal specifications of object behavior
  • Consistency and non-determinism in a database programming language
  • A fact-oriented approach to schema transformation
  • A database needs two kinds of negation
  • Rationale of the O2 system
  • The background of the DASDBS & COSMOS projects
  • The rationale behind DBPL.