Advances in databases : 13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13, Manchester, United Kingdom, July 12-14, 1995 : proceedings

Object databasesand standards.- Multimedia databasemanagement: Perspectives and challenges.- Combining inheritance and parametric polymorphismin a functional databaselanguage.- Extending functional databaselanguages to update completeness.- Recognizing graphic detail an experiment in user interpretation of data models.- The pragmatics of naive databaseenquiry.- Using a conceptual data language to describe a databaseand its interface.- Scheduling query planswith buffer-requirement estimates.- Optimization of spatial joins using filters.- An efficient transient versioning method.- Concurrency controlof tiered flat transactions.- Two-step pruning: A distributed query optimizationalgorithm.- Text searchusing databasesystems revisited - Some experiments.- Integrity merging in an object-oriented federated databaseenvironment.- The architecture of the ICL GOLDRUSH MegaSERVER.- W-SQL an interface for scalable, highly parallel, database machines.