Advances in Databases

JPMQ-An advanced persistent message queuing service.- A repository to support transparency in database design.- Observation consistent integration of views of object life-cycles.- Efficient mining of association rules in large dynamic databases.- Efficient nearest-neighbour searches using weighted euclidean metrics.- The Acoi algebra: A query algebra for image retrieval systems.- A meta-structure for supporting multimedia editing in object-oriented databases.- Establishing a knowledge base to assist integration of heterogeneous databases.- Considering integrity constraints during federated database design.- Scoped referential transparency in a functional database language with updates.- Extending the ODMG architecture with a deductive object query language.- The chase of datalog programs.- Describing and querying semistructured data: Some expressiveness results.- The TENTACLE database system as a web server.- A toolkit to facilitate the querying and integration of tabular data from semistructured documents.- Parallel sub-collection join algorithm for high performance object-oriented databases.- Component DBMS architecture for nomadic computing.- ITSE database interoperation toolkit.- Ontological commitments for multiple view cooperation in a distributed heterogeneous environment.- Constraint and data fusion in a distributed information system.