Some 100 papers cover multimedia, interoperable, active, and temporal databases. They also discuss internet query processing, application integration, memory management, integration and workflow on the World Wide Web, data mining, the Web and digital libraries, document and Web information services, distributed and mobile objects, commercial advances in query processing and access methods, on-line analytical processing and multi-dimensional data, index schemas, data clustering, tertiary storage, query processing and reconciliation, secondary storage organization, and advanced topics. Keynote speeches address the coincidental confluence of economics, business, and collaborative computing; and data mining from an artificial intelligence perspective. No summaries are provided for the panel sessions. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |