Rules in Database Systems: Second International Workshop, Rids '95, Glyfada, Athens, Greece, September 25 - 27, 1995. Proceedings (Paperback, 1995)

The active database management system manifesto: A rulebase of ADBMS features.- Formal specification of active database functionality: A survey.- Denotational semantics for an active rule execution model.- Activity specification using rendezvous.- Reactive behaviour support: Themes and variations.- Reasoning about the behavior of active databases applications.- Extending a functional DBPL with ECA-rules.- Rule contexts in active databases.- Temporized and localized rule sets.- Design and implementation of an active object-oriented database supporting construction of database tools.- Improved rule analysis by means of triggering and activation graphs.- VITAL: a visual tool for analysis of rules behaviour in active databases.- A visualization and explanation tool for debugging ECA rules in active databases.- Strategies for parallel linear recursive query processing.- Planning complex updates to satisfy constraint rules using a constraint logic search engine.- Constant propagation versus join reordering in Datalog.- Compilation and simplification of temporal integrity constraints.- An active component for a parallel database kernel.- Using delta relations to optimize condition evaluation in active databases.- A designer's benchmark for active database management systems: 007 meets the BEAST.- Realization of cooperative agents using an active object-oriented database management system.- Active databases and agent systems - a comparison.- Recovering active databases.