Developing the Singapore National Information Infrastructure -- An architecture for a cooperative database system -- Spatial Databases -- Database management for real-time applications -- The evolution of user interface tools for database applications -- Temporal database technology for air traffic flow management -- Using an extended er-model based data dictionary to automatically generate product modeling systems -- A notation for describing aggregate relationships in an object-oriented data model -- Modeling activities of application domains -- Efficient Image Retrieval By Color Contents -- STAR — A multimedia database system for trademark registration -- Visualizing and querying distributed event traces with Hy+ -- Dynamic maps as composite views of varied geographic database servers -- Limits database for an environmental information system -- An intelligent database system application: The design of EMS -- Using next generation databases to develop financial applications -- A multidatabase solution for a financial application -- Applying next generation object-oriented DBMS to finite element analysis -- A Physician's Workstation as an application of object-oriented database technology in healthcare -- Fast document ranking for large scale information retrieval -- Text / relational database management systems: Harmonizing SQL and SGML -- A DBMS-Based multimedia archiving teleservice incorporating mail -- A zoomable DBMS for brain structure, function and behavior -- Combining computation with database access in biomolecular computing -- An object-oriented database of protein structure data -- Active database technology supports cancer clustering -- A gateway from DBPL to ingres -- Federation and stepwise reduction of database systems -- Methods and tools for data value re-engineering -- Object View Broker: A mediation service and architecture to provide object-oriented views of heterogeneous databases -- Enhancing pre-existing data managers with atomicity and durability -- A personal and portable database server: The CQL card -- Intelligent networks as a data intensive application (INDIA).

This volume presents the proceedings of the First International Conference on Applications of Databases, ADB-94, held at Vadstena, Sweden in June 1994. ADB-94 provided a unique platform for the discussion of innovative applications of databases among database researchers, developers and application designers. The 28 refereed papers were carefully selected from more than 100 submissions. They report on DB applications, for example in air traffic, modelling, maps, environment, finance, engineering, electronic publishing, and digital libraries, and they are devoted to advanced database services, as for example image text and multimedia modelling, fuzzy set based querying, knowledge management, heterogeneous multidatabase management, and intelligent networks.