Advances in database technology, EDBT '98 : 6th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Valencia, Spain, March 23-27, 1998 : proceedings

On the ubiquity of information services and the absence of guaranteed service quality.- Processing complex similarity queries with distance-based access methods.- HySpirit - A probabilistic inference engine for hypermedia retrieval in large databases.- Towards optimal indexing for segment databases.- Fusion queries over internet databases.- Efficient queries over web views.- Equal time for data on the internet with websemantics.- Pincer-search: A new algorithm for discovering the maximum frequent set.- Multivariate and multidimensional OLAP.- Incremental generalization for mining in a data warehousing environment.- Modeling large scale OLAP scenarios.- Discovery-driven exploration of OLAP data cubes.- A logical approach to multidimensional databases.- Efficient dynamic programming algorithms for ordering expensive joins and selections.- Improving the query performance of high-dimensional index structures by bulk load operations.- An evaluation of alternative disk scheduling techniques in support of variable bit rate continuous media.- Buffer management in distributed database systems: A data mining-based approach.- Complex aggregation at multiple granularities.- Parallel processing of multiple aggregate queries on shared-nothing multiprocessors.- Minimizing detail data in data warehouses.- Static management of integrity in object-oriented databases: Design and implementation.- OCB: A generic benchmark to evaluate the performances of object-oriented database systems.- A path removing technique for detecting trigger termination.- The CVS algorithm for view synchronization in evolvable large-scale information systems.- Integration of incremental view maintenance into query optimizers.- Maintaining temporal views over non-temporal information sources for data warehousing.- Referential actions: From logical semantics to implementation.- A conceptual model and a tool environment for developing more scalable, dynamic, and customizable Web applications.- Design and maintenance of data-intensive web sites.- Dynamic and structured presentation of database contents on the Web.- Mining process models from workflow logs.- A scheme to specify and implement ad-hoc recovery in workflow systems.- Exploring heterogeneous biological databases: Tools and applications.