TY - BOOK AU - Goble,Carole AU - Keane,John ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Advances in Databases: 13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13 Manchester, United Kingdom, July 12–14, 1995 Proceedings T2 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SN - 9783540494270 AV - QA76.9.D3 U1 - 005.74 23 PY - 1995/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Computer science KW - Database management KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Information systems KW - Computer Science KW - Database Management KW - Information Storage and Retrieval KW - Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) N1 - Object databases and standards -- Multimedia database management: Perspectives and challenges -- Combining inheritance and parametric polymorphism in a functional database language -- Extending functional database languages to update completeness -- Recognizing graphic detail an experiment in user interpretation of data models -- The pragmatics of naive database enquiry -- Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface -- Scheduling query plans with buffer-requirement estimates -- Optimization of spatial joins using filters -- An efficient transient versioning method -- Concurrency control of tiered flat transactions -- Two-step pruning: A distributed query optimization algorithm -- Text search using database systems revisited - Some experiments -- Integrity merging in an object-oriented federated database environment -- The architecture of the ICL GOLDRUSH MegaSERVER -- W-SQL an interface for scalable, highly parallel, database machines N2 - This volume presents the proceedings of the 13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13, held in Manchester, UK in July 1995. The volume contains 2 invited contributions and 14 full revised technical papers selected from a total of 64 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on functional databases, user interfaces, system-level algorithms, queries and transactions, and parallel and federated systems. Despite the fact that BNCOD is a national event there is strong international representation in the proceedings UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0000536 ER -