Preface

1. Database Research and Systems: Key Issues in Perspective               1

          Gad Ariav and James Clifford

Part 1. The Changing Shape of Database Management Systems 

2. Future Database Machine Architectures               13

          David K. Hsiao

3. Databases in the Fifth Generation Project: Is Prolog a Database Language?               18

          David Maier

4. Recent and Future Trends in Distributed Data Management               35

          C. Mohan

Part II. Databases as System Components

5. Database Management Approach to Operating Systems Development               53

          Richard A. Pick

6. Building Blocks for Decision Support Systems               66

          Clyde W. Holsapple and Andrew B. Whinston

7. The DBMS_Expert-System Connection               87

          Daniel H. Fishman

Part III New Application Areas

8. Office Automation and Database Management               105

          Howard Lee Morgan

9. Computer-Aided Design Databases               110

          Randy H. Katz

10. Databases for Information Systems Design               124

          Benn R. Konsynski

Part IV. New Data Models

 11. A Framework for Semantic Database Models               149

          Hamideh Afsarmanesh and Dennis McLeod

12. Temporal Data Management: Models and Systems               168

          James Clifford and Gad Ariav

13. Knowledge Bases and Databases: Semantic vs Computational Theories of Information               186

          Michael L. Brodie and John Mylopoulos 

Epilogue

14. New Directions in Database Management: A Workstation Perspective               221

          Robert W. Taylor

      Bibliography               229

      Index               257

      Subject Index               269