Data & Knowledge Engineering, Volume 29, 1999

Volume 29, Number 1, January 1999

Laura Amadesi, Fabio Grandi:
An Adaptive Split Policy for the Time Split B-Tree. 1-15
Frances M. T. Brazier, Jan Treur, Niek J. E. Wijngaards, Mark Willems:
Temporal Semantics of Compositional Task Models and Problem Solving Methods. 17-42
Siwoo Byun, Songchun Moon:
Resilient Data Management for Replicated Mobile Database Systems. 43-55
Fernando Gomez, Carlos Segami, Carl Delaune:
A System for the Semiautomatic Generation of E-R Models from Natural Language Specifications. 57-81
Ee-Peng Lim, Roger H. L. Chiang, Yinyan Cao:
Tuple Source Relational Model: A Source-Aware Data Model for Multidatabases. 83-114

Reda Alhajj, Ashraf Elnagar:
Incremental Materialization of Object-Oriented Views. 121-145
Florence Le Ber, Marie-Pierre Chouvet:
An Agent-Based Model for Domain Knowledge Representation. 147-161
Juhnyong Lee:
Precise Serialization for Optimistic Concurrency Control. 163-178
Hui Lei, Kenneth A. Ross:
Faster Joins, Self-Joins and Multi-Way Joins Using Join Indices. 179-200
Kian-Lee Tan, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Pin-Kwang Eng:
Supporting Range Queries in a Wireless Environment with Nonuniform Broadcast. 201-221

Sabina Beraha, Jianwen Su:
Support for Modeling Relationships in Object-Oriented Databases. 227-257
Frédéric Cuppens, Alban Gabillon:
Logical Foundations of Multilevel Databases. 259-291
Robert C. Goldstein, Veda C. Storey:
Data Abstractions: Why and How? 293-311
Nikos A. Lorentzos, Constantine P. Yialouris, Alexander B. Sideridis:
Time-Evolving Rule-Based Knowledge Bases. 313-335
Bryan W. Scotney, Sally I. McClean, Máire Rodgers:
Optimal and Efficient Integration of Heterogeneous Summary Tables in a Distributed Database. 337-350
Antonio Si, Hong Va Leong:
Query Optimization for Broadcast Database. 351-380
Theodoros Tzouramanis, Yannis Manolopoulos, Nikos A. Lorentzos:
Overlapping B⁺-Trees: An Implementation of a Transaction Time Access Method. 381-404