Download or read book Advances in Databases written by Suzanne M. Embury and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-06-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of the refereed proceedings of the 15th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 15, held in London, in July 1997. The 12 revised full papers presented were selected from more than 30 submissions. Also included are 10 poster presentations and the invited lecture on The Role of Intelligent Software Agents in Advanced Information Systems by Larry Kerschberg. The papers are organized in topical sections on transaction processing, optimization, object-orientation and the Internet, and database integration.