Database Theory — ICDT’99: 7th International Conference Jerusalem, Israel, January 10–12, 1999 ProceedingsAuthor: Catriel Beeri, Peter Buneman Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-65452-0 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49257-7Table of Contents:Issues Raised by Three Years of Developing PJama: An Orthogonally Persistent Platform for Java™ Novel Computational Approaches to Information Retrieval and Data Mining Description Logics and Their Relationships with Databases An Equational Chase for Path-Conjunctive Queries, Constraints, Views Adding For-Loops to First-Order Logic Definability and Descriptive Complexity on Databases of Bounded Tree-Width Decidability of First-Order Logic Queries over Views Urn Models and Yao’s Formula On the Generation of 2-Dimensional Index Workloads Increasing the Expressiveness of Analytical Performance Models for Replicated Databases Transactions in Stack, Fork, and Join Composite Systems Databases for Tracking Mobile Units in Real Time On Capturing First-Order Topological Properties of Planar Spatial Databases On the Orthographic Dimension of Constraint Databases When Is “Nearest Neighbor” Meaningful? On Rectangular Partitionings in Two Dimensions: Algorithms, Complexity and Applications Optimal Dynamic Range Searching inNon-replicating Index Structures Index Structures for Path Expressions Schemas for Integration and Translation of Structured and Semi-structured Data In Search of the Lost Schema, Includes bibliographical references and index