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IDS
1994
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The Ambleside Survey: Important Topics in DB/HCI Research
In 1989, and again in 1993, panels of database researchers were surveyed about which research areas they considered promising. In both cases, the area of user interfaces was chose...
Eben M. Haber
IDS
1994
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Unifying Interaction with Persistent Data and Program
Richard C. H. Connor, Quintin I. Cutts, Graham N. ...
IDS
1994
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Virtual Environments for Data Sharing and Visualisation - Populated Information Terrains
The Concept of Populated Information Terrains (PITS) aims to extend database technology with key ideas from the new fields of Virtual Reality (VR) and Computer Supported Cooperativ...
Steve Benford, John A. Mariani
HPTS
1993
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Parallel Query Processing in Shared Disk Database Systems
System developments and research on parallel query processing have concentrated either on "Shared Everything" or "Shared Nothing" architectures so far. While t...
Erhard Rahm
HPTS
1993
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Generic Action Support for Distributed, Cooperative Applications
Elements of transaction processing become more and more accepted as a base for general purpose distributed computing.We have developed an action concept with an extended functiona...
Edgar Nett, Michael Mock
ER
1994
Springer
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From E-R to "A-R" - Modelling Strategic Actor Relationships for Business Process Reengineering
Abstract. As information systems are increasingly being called upon to play vital roles in organizations, conceptual modelling techniques need to be extended to relate information ...
Eric S. K. Yu, John Mylopoulos
ER
1994
Springer
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Using Queries to Improve Database Reverse Engineering
Jean-Marc Petit, Jacques Kouloumdjian, Jean-Fran&c...
ER
1994
Springer
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A Normal Form Object-Oriented Entity Relationship Diagram
A normal form object-oriented entity relationship (OOER) diagram is presented to address a set of 00 data modelling issues, viz. the inability to judge the quality of an 00 schema,...
Tok Wang Ling, Pit Koon Teo
ER
1994
Springer
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An Executable Meta Model for Re-Engineering of Database Schemas
A logical database schema, e.g. a relational one, is an implementation of a speci cation, e.g. an entity-relationship diagram. Upcoming new data models and the necessity of seamle...
Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Uwe A. Johnen
EDBT
1994
ACM
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On the Estimation of Join Result Sizes
Abstract. Good estimates of join result sizes are critical for query optimization in relational database management systems. We address the problem of incrementally obtaining accur...
Arun N. Swami, K. Bernhard Schiefer