Cardiff University - Computer Science

      Sixteenth British National Conference on Databases

      Provisional Programme



      Monday, 6th July 1998

      12.00pm Registration opens
      2.00pm BNCOD16 Opening
      2.15pm Session 1: Invited Speaker
      "Progress with Orthogonal Persistence for Java"
      Malcolm Atkinson
      University of Glasgow, UK
      3.30pm Tea
      4.00pm Session 2: Middleware
      "JPMQ - An Advanced Persistent Message Queuing Service"
      H.-P. Steiert and J. Zimmermann
      University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
      "Messaging Middleware in Industry"
      S. Todd
      IBM Laboratories, UK
      5.00pm Session 3: Panel
      "Middleware for DB Applications: Right or Wrong?"
      Chair: N.J. Fiddian (Cardiff)
      S. Baker (Iona)
      A. Sheridan (British Telecom)
      S. Todd (IBM)
      7.00pm Dinner
      8.00pm Twmpath/Ceilidh


      Tuesday, 7th July 1998

      9.00am Session 4: Poster Presentations
      "The Chase of Datalog Programs"
      N.R. Brisaboa, A. Gonzales, H.J. Hernandez and J. Parama
      Universidad da Coruna, Spain
      "Describing and Querying Semistructured Data: Some Expressiveness Results"
      N. Alechina and M. de Rijke
      University of Birmingham, UK
      "The Tentacle Database System as a Web Server"
      M. Welz and P. Wood
      University of Cape Town, South Africa
      "A Toolkit to Facilitate the Querying and Integration of Tabular Data from Semistructured Documents"
      L.E. Hodge, W.A. Gray and N.J. Fiddian
      Cardiff University, UK
      9.30am Session 5: Life Cycles
      "A Repository to Support Transparency in Database Design"
      G. Griebel, B. Lundell and B. Lings
      University of Skoevde, Sweden
      "Observation Consistent Integration of Views of Object Life-Cycles"
      G. Preuner and M. Schrefl
      University of Linz, Austria
      10.30am Coffee
      11.00am Session 6: Association
      "Efficient Mining of Association Rules in Large Dynamic Databases"
      E. Omiecinski and A. Savasere
      Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
      "Efficient Nearest-Neighbour Searches Using Weighted Euclidean Metric"
      R. Kurniawati, J.S. Jin and J.A. Shepherd
      University of New South Wales, Australia
      12.00pm Session 7: Poster Presentations
      "Parallel Sub-Collection Join Algorithm for High Performance Object-Oriented Databases"
      D. Taniar and J.W. Rahayu
      Monash University, Australia
      "Component DBMS Architecture for Nomadic Computing"
      J.A. McCann and J.S. Crane
      City University, UK
      "ITSE Database Interoperation Toolkit"
      W. Behrendt, N.J. Fiddian, W.A. Gray and A.P. Madurapperuma
      Cardiff University, UK
      "Ontological Commitments for Multiple View Cooperation in a Distributed Heterogeneous Environment"
      A.-R.H. Tawil, W.A. Gray and N.J. Fiddian
      Cardiff University, UK
      "Constraint and Data Fusion in a Distributed Information System"
      K.-Y. Hui and P.M.D. Gray
      University of Aberdeen, UK
      12.30pm Lunch
      2.00pm Poster Exhibition
      2.30pm Session 8: Images
      "The Acoi Algebra: a Query Algebra for Image Retrieval Systems"
      N. Nes and M. Kersten
      University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
      "A Meta-Structure for Supporting Multimedia Editing in Object-Oriented Databases"
      G. Speegle, X. Wang and L. Gruenwald
      Baylor University, USA
      3.30pm Tea
      4.00pm Session 9: Heterogeneity
      "Establishing a Knowledge Base to Assist Integration of Heterogeneous Databases"
      D.D. Karunaratna, W.A. Gray and N.J. Fiddian
      Cardiff University, Wales, UK
      "Considering Integrity Constraints During Federated Database Design"
      S. Conrad, I. Schmitt and C. Tuerker
      Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg
      5.00pm Poster Exhibition
      7.30pm Conference Banquet
      National Museum of Wales


      Wednesday, 8th July 1998

      9.30am Session 10: Invited Speaker
      "How to do a Five-Year Applications Development Project in Six Months"
      Jeffrey Walker
      TenFold Corporation, USA
      10.30am Coffee
      11.00am Session 11: Languages
      "Scoped Referential Transparency in a Functional Database Language with Updates"
      P.F. Meredith and P.J.H. King
      Birkbeck College, London, UK
      "Extending the ODMG Architecture with a Deductive Object Query Language"
      N.W. Paton and P.R.F. Sampaio
      University of Manchester, UK
      12.00am Close


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