10th ERCIM Database Research Group Workshop
on Heterogeneous Information Management

Prague, November 4-5, 1996

Programme Committee:

• Chair: Jaroslav Pokorny, Department of Software Engineering, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

• P. Asirelli, IEI-CNR, Pisa
• K.G.Jeffery, CLRC Rutheford Appleton Lab, Dixon, GB
• F. Saltor, Universita Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
• J. Stuller, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Managing Heterogeneity in Inter-Operating Medical Information Systems [ps.gz] + figure [ps.gz]
  M. Dixon, J.Kohoutkova, S.Cook, K.Jeffery, B.Read
• Query Translation for Heterogenous Information Management [ps.gz]
  F. Jouanot, C. Nicolle, N. Cullot
• A Multiple View Definition System for Supporting Interoperability among Heterogenous and Autonomous Databases [ps.gz]
  R.M.Duwairi, N.J.Fiddian, W.A.Gray
• A Negotiation Process Approach for Building Federated Databases [ps.gz]
  M. Oliva, F.Saltor
• An Approach to Supporting Semantic Integrity of Federated Databases [ps.gz]
  C. Türker
• An Approach for Integration of File Based Systems into Database Federations [ps.gz]
  M. Höding
• Retrieving Information in Distributed Multimedia Databases [ps.gz]
  Ch. Baumgarten, U. Marder, G. Robbert, K. Meyer-Wegener
• Using Metadata to Enhance Multimedia Query Semantics [ps.gz]
  P. Merialdo, G.Sindoni
• Federating Legacy Databases about People - in practice [ps.gz]
  B.J.Read
• Failure Handling in Transactional Workflows Utilizing CORBA 2.0 [ps.gz]
  O. Bukhres, C.J.Crawley
• List of Participants

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