This proceedings contains the latest reports on research, development and novel applications of database systems. Topics covered include: database design, parallel and distributed databases, storage structures, integrity constraints, deductive databases and theoretical aspects of databases.
Recent advances in transaction management, A. Fekete; storage management for files of dynamic records, J. Zobel et al; mapping one-to-one predicates to a relational schema, P. Ritson and T. Halpin; using weakest preconditions to simplify integrity constraint checking, M. Lawley et al; replicated fragment allocation using a clustering methodology, G. Semeczko; on optimizing uniformly bounded datalog programs, J.L. Han; a temporal algebra based on an abstract model, M. Orgun and H. Muller; the intelligent developer - towards the automated implementation of information systems, A. Berglas.