Database Theory - ICDT '92 4th International Conference, Berlin, Germany, October 14-16, 1992. Proceedings

The papers in this volume were presented at the International Conference on Database Theory, held in Berlin, Germany, October 14-16, 1992. This conference initiated the merger of two series of conferences on theoretical aspects of databases that were formed in parallel by different scientific commun...

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Other Authors: Biskup, Joachim (Editor), Hull, Richard (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1992, 1992
Edition:1st ed. 1992
Series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Combinatorial and algebraic results for database relations
  • Semantics of disjunctive deductive databases
  • Database theory in Russia (1979–1991) (an overview)
  • On the composition and decomposition of attributes and tuples
  • Approximate dependency inference from relations
  • Views and decompositions of databases from a categorical perspective
  • Computing with infinitary logic
  • Query languages with counters
  • Naturally embedded query languages
  • Optimizing incremental computation of datalog programs with non-deterministic semantics
  • Optimizing active databases using the split technique (Preliminary Report)
  • Updating atomic information in labelled database systems (extended abstract)
  • Context-specific synchronization for atomic data types
  • Hybrid atomicity for nested transactions
  • Model and verification of a data manager based on ARIES
  • Minimizing indefinite information in disjunctive deductive databases
  • Well founded semantics and stable semantics of semi-strict programs
  • On finding extensions of default theories
  • Incremental evaluation of Datalog queries
  • Decidability and undecidability of equivalence for linear Datalog, with applications to normal-form optimizations
  • A paradox in database theory
  • A hierarchy of faithful set creation in pure OODB's
  • Identification, genericity and consistency in object-oriented databases
  • Subsumption for complex object data models
  • Semantic information connected with data
  • Declarative foundations of secure deductive databases
  • On materializing views and on-line queries
  • Maintaining dictionaries: Space-saving modifications of B-trees
  • Set-term matching in logic programming