The Annual DEXA Conference addresses some of the most important aspects of databases, knowledge bases and related technologies, as well as their applications. The Program Committee unifies specialists in many and diverse fields of database world, artificial intelligence, information systems, etc. On the occasion of DEXA Conference, important workshops have been organized, many of them pointing to new fields and topics in databases and information systems. This book gathers the papers and tutorials selected for DEXA'99. It is dedicated to researchers and specialists in databases and related fields that search for theoretical answers and possible solutions to their questions and problems, mainly in artificial intelligence. The readers who are novice in database theory might get an idea on the main aspects that will substantially impact on their work with computer, some of them in the near future.
edited by Trevor Bench-Capon, Giovanni Soda and A. Min Tjoa
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