Research as a catalyst for industrial innovation -- Peplomd: an object oriented database programming language extended with deductive capabilities -- Object-oriented database systems: How much SQL do they understand? -- An Object-Centered Application Development System -- Flora: A functional-style language for object and relational algebra -- On the optimal top-down evaluation of recursive queries -- A study of spatial clustering techniques -- Efficient management of 2-d interval relations -- Managing structured documents in distributed publishing environments -- A generalized semantic model for CSCW systems -- C-TORI: An interface for cooperative database retrieval -- Organization models for cooperative office applications -- Semantically enriching relational databases into an object oriented semantic model -- Consistency checking of evolving methods -- Designing and integrating human genome databases with object-oriented technology -- On evidential feature salience -- The R-link tree: A recoverable index structure for spatial data -- The retrieval of direction relations using R-trees -- A unified framework for indexing in database systems -- An intelligent system to identify the appropriate organization for a factory -- Object-oriented design of manufacturing database helps simplify production management in small firms -- A solution procedure for solving the nonrectangular cutting stock problem of the clothing industry using expert knowledge within an intelligent CAD environment -- An object-oriented approach to a temporal query language -- A framework for developing temporal databases -- Efficient storage structures for temporal object-oriented databases -- TFDL: A Temporal Functional Language for the management of historical databases -- The ORES Temporal DBMS and the ERT-SQL query language -- Object-oriented constraint analysis in complex applications -- A conceptual database approach for modelling 3D objects of irregular geometry -- An algebraic language for event-driven modelling -- Prototyping object oriented specifications in an algebraic environment -- Identifying precedents under uncertainty -- CONCAT — Connotation analysis of thesauri based on the interpretation of context meaning -- The design and implementation of a legal text database -- Maintenance of JURICAS legal computer advice systems -- Expert systems for industrial process control: A study in technology transfer -- From a passive to an active database supporting exceptions -- How does knowledge discovery cooperate with active database techniques in controlling dynamic environment? -- EECA: An active knowledge model -- Active and passive rules for complex object databases -- Managing entity versions within their contexts: A formal approach -- Tracking the evolution of concepts in dynamic worlds -- Tracing the evolution of artifacts -- Supporting information disclosure in an evolving environment -- Geographic data handling in a deductive object-oriented database -- Expert spatial knowledge: an expert geographical information system in diffusion of water -- Using versions in GIS -- The strategic role of information technology towards the information society -- Federating object-oriented and relational databases -- Bridging the gap between knowledge engineering and efficient implementation in an intelligent tutoring system -- Mechanisms for structuring knowledge-based systems -- Distributed system intelligent design -- A model for hypermedia based on production systems -- Hypermedia databases: A specification and formal language -- Implementing open hypermedia services on top of the Postgres extended relational database management system -- A support system for building hypermedia training applications -- OMNIS/Myriad document retrieval and its database requirements -- Constructing an Information Retrieval System with neural networks -- The HS file: A new dynamic signature file method for efficient information retrieval -- A multi-agent architecture for an evolving expert system module -- Improving integrity constraint checking for stratified deductive databases -- RTSORAC: A real-time object-oriented database model -- Applying database technology to real-time systems -- Database exploration with dynamic abstractions -- Soft querying, a new feature for database management systems -- OR-SML: A functional database programming language for disjunctive information and its applications -- Semantic query optimization in OODB systems -- A medical terminology server -- BIND: A biomedical INteroperable database system -- Development of secure medical database systems -- Using inductive machine learning, expert systems and case based reasoning to predict preterm delivery in pregnant women -- Integrating frames, rules and uncertainty in a database-coupled knowledge-representation system -- A prototype rule-based front end system for integrity enforcement in relational databases: An application to the naval aircraft flight records database -- Modeling uncertainty in deductive databases -- Dependency-directed binding of variables for constraint logic programming -- Flexible and dynamic integration of multiple information bases -- PPOST: A parallel database in main memory -- Exploiting inter-operation parallelism for SQL query optimization -- Reactive object-oriented databases and CIM -- Advanced computer integrated technology for furniture manufacturing -- A distributed system for CIM -- Integrated-Company-Software (INCOSOFT) — a special solution for small- and medium-sized companies.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '94), held in Athens, Greece in September 1994. The 78 papers presented were selected from more than 300 submissions and give a comprehensive view of advanced applications of databases and expert systems. Among the topics covered are object-oriented, temporal, active, geographical, hypermedia and distributed databases, data management, cooperative office applications, object-oriented modelling, industrial applications, conceptual modelling, legal systems, evolving environments, knowledge engineering, information retrieval, advanced querying, medical systems, and CIM.