Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bringing Knowledge to Bear: Challenges for Decision Support Databases / David Maier, Mary Edie Meredith and Leonard Shapiro -- OODB Support for Software Process Management / Chunnian Liu -- Using Active Rules to Maintain the Data Consistency in Heterogeneous Database Systems / Shi-Ming Huang and Jung-Kwi Liu -- An Object-Oriented Approach to the Knowledge-based Scheduling Environment / J. G. Hughes, P. Ye and Y. Song [et al.] -- An Object-Oriented Approach to Interoperable Heterogeneous Information Sources / Ling Liu and Calton Pu -- An Information Architecture to Support Modern Information Systems Development / Maria E. Orlowska -- Why Users cannot 'Get What They Want' / Ray J. Paul -- A Grammar-based Approach for the Integration of Text-Dominated Databases / Nabil Kamel -- Modelling Transactions for Distributed Multimedia Database Systems / Weihai Yu -- Towards a Knowledge-based System for Database Re-engineering / Irene S. Y. Kwan --

Multiple Granularity Locks for the KBMS Environment / Fernando De Ferreira Rezende and Theo Harder -- Concurrency Control in an Object-Oriented DBMS by Exploiting Navigation / Mohsen Beheshti and Lois M. L. Delcambre -- Cost-Controlled OFL Rewriting Rules for Multiple Collection Traversals / Didier Chretien, Fernando Machuca and Puthirak Om [et al.] -- Translating Database Update Statements from Relational to Object-Oriented Database Systems for Database Re-engineering / Joseph Fong and Paul Chitson -- Using Semantic Enrichment to Provide Interoperability between Relational and ODMG Databases / Uwe Hohenstein -- A Production Rule Approach to Modeling Complex Objects / Weijia Hia -- Extending Path Expression to Tree Expression in OODM / John W. T. Lee and Stephen C. F. Chan -- An S-Signature Scheme on Path Dictionary for Efficient Query Processing in Object-Oriented Database Systems / Hakgene Shin and Jaewoo Chang --

Query Translation: The Query Interoperability Approach / Carlos Wong and W. S. Luk -- Towards a Method for Schema Translation from Relational to Object-Oriented Databases / Brian Siu and T.-Y. Cheung -- A Distributed Object Database's Basic Design Issues / Xiuzhen Zhang and Joseph Fong -- A Case Study on the Capability of Object-Oriented Database under UNISQL / Chee Hoi Pong -- Building the Virtual Enterprise with OO Technology / Stuart Seow -- DRDA Implementation / Aaron K. D. Sze -- Oracle 7 Release 7.3 Universal Database / Doug Farber -- UniSQL and World Wide Web / Andrew Lam -- Object-Oriented Middleware / Ray Ruff -- Object Relational Databases: Towards a Universal Server / Tony Banham -- Using Multistage Retrieval and Hybrid Adaption to Build Case-based Reasoning System for Pilot Production / Tzu-Fu Chiu, Jackie Archibald and Colin Hardy -- A Temporal Probabilistic Object-Oriented Data Model / Bingning Dai, John G. Hughes and David A. Bell --

Design and Implementation of an Object Management Module for a PDA / Chang-ju Lee, Sang-ui Yoon and Sang-goo Lee -- Variable Knowledge-Based System / Li-gou Wang.