Database and Expert Systems Applications 8th International Conference, DEXA'97, Toulouse, France, September 1-5, 1997, Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hameurlain, A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Min Tjoa, A. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1997.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1308
• Subjects: Data structures (Computer science).; Application software.; Artificial intelligence.; Database management.; Multimedia information systems.; Data Structures and Information Theory.; Computer Applications.; Artificial Intelligence.; Database Management.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Multimedia Information Systems.
• Physical Description: XVIII, 694 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540695806
• ISSN: 0302-9743 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/BFb0022012

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA '97, held in Toulouse, France, September 1997. The 62 revised full papers presented in the book, together with three invited contributions, were selected from a total of 159 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on modeling, object-oriented databases, active and temporal aspects, images, integrity constraints, multimedia databases, deductive databases and knowledge-based systems, allocation concepts, data interchange, digital libraries, transaction concepts, learning issues, optimization and performance, query languages, maintenance, federated databases, uncertainty handling and qualitative reasoning, and software engineering and reusable software.