Database and Expert Systems Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA'99, held in Florence, Italy in August/September 1999. The 105 revised papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 241 submissions. The volume addresses all current aspects of advanced information systems applications. The papers are organized in topical sections on object-oriented databases; fundamentals; queries; advanced information systems; workflow management systems; heterogeneous, distributed, and federated databases; transactions; data warehousing and data mining; spatial databases; internet applications; and temporal databases.