Advances in Database Systems: Implementations and Applications

✍ Scribed by J. Paredaens, L. Tenenbaum (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Series: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences 347
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Advanced information technology is pervasive in any kind of human activity - science, business, finance, management and others - and this is particularly true for database systems. Both database theory and database applications constitute a very important part of the state of the art of computer science. Meanwhile there is some discrepancy between different aspects of database activity. Theoreticians are sometimes not much aware of the real needs of business and industry; software specialists not always have the time or the apportunity to get acquainted with the most recent theoretical ideas and trends, as well as with advanced prototypes arising from these ideas; potential users often do not have the possibility of evaluating the theoretical foundations and the potential practical impact of different commercial products. So the main goal of the course was to put together people involved in different aspects of database activity and to promote active exchange of ideas among them.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages ii-viii
Acyclic Hypergraphs and Relational Databases (A Survey)....Pages 1-28
Foundations of Database Systems: An Introductory Tutorial....Pages 29-48
Requirements and Design Issues of Spatial Data Handling Systems....Pages 49-69
Hermes: An Integrated Approach to Modelling Data Base Systems Design....Pages 71-93
The Weak Instance Model....Pages 95-114
Concepts for Database Privacy....Pages 115-124
Database Security: Policies and Mechanisms....Pages 125-138
Object-Oriented Authorization....Pages 139-160
A Browsing Theory and Its Application to Database Navigation....Pages 161-179
An Application of the Milord System to Handle Radiological Data....Pages 181-200
Object-Oriented Design of Information Systems: Theoretical Foundations....Pages 201-218
Object-Oriented Design of Information Systems: Troll Language Features....Pages 219-245
Goal, a Graph-Based Object and Association Language....Pages 247-265
Database Design Strategies....Pages 267-285
Semantical Constraints for Database Models....Pages 287-327
A Brief Tutorial Introduction to Data Structures for Geometric Databases....Pages 329-351
Data Structures and Algorithms for Geographic Information Systems: Selected Topics....Pages 353-364
Geographic Information Systems: an Example....Pages 365-377

✦ Subjects

Data Structures; Models and Principles; Database Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)