Advances in Databases 13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13, Manchester, United Kingdom, July 12 - 14, 1995. Proceedings

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.

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.