Download or read book Advances in Database Technology - EDBT '94 written by Matthias Jarke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1994-03-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth international conference on Extending Data Base Technology was held in Cambridge, UK, in March 1994. The biannual EDBT has established itself as the premier European database conference. It provides an international forum for the presentation of new extensions to database technology through research, development, and application. This volume contains the scientific papers of the conference. Following invited papers by C.M. Stone and A. Herbert, it contains 31 papers grouped into sections on object views, intelligent user interface, distributed information servers, transaction management, information systems design and evolution, semantics of extended data models,accessing new media, join algorithms, query optimization, and multimedia databases.