Database machines. 6th international workshop, IWDM '89, Deauville, France, June 19-21, 1989. Proceedings (Q1801260)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This volume contains 24 papers presented at the 6th International Workshop on Database Machines, Deauville, France, June 19-21, 1989. The contributions are classified in the following topics: \underbar{Architecture}, \textit{H. Lam}, \textit{C. Lee} and \textit{S. Y. W. Su}: An object flow computer for database applications (the presentation of an architecture for processing data modeled by object-oriented semantics), \textit{G. von Bültzingsloewen}, \textit{C. Iochpe}, \textit{R. P. Liedtke} \textit{R. Kramer}, \textit{M. Schyro}, \textit{K. R. Dittrich} and \textit{P. C. Lockemann}: \underbar{Design and implementation of KARDAMOM, a set- oriented data flow database machine}, \textit{M. Smith}, \textit{B. Alexander}, \textit{H. Boral}, \textit{G. Copeland}, \textit{T. Keller}, \textit{H. Schwetman} and \textit{Chii-R. Young}: An experiment on response time scalability in bubba; \underbar{Esprit Projects} - \textit{B. Bergsten}, \textit{M. Couprie}, \textit{R. Gonzales-Rubio}, \textit{B. Kerherve} and \textit{M. Ziane}: Language levels and computational model for a parallel database accelerator (the paper presents the language model and the computational model supported by DDC, a parallel system dedicated to process classical and deductive database applications), \textit{P. Pucheral} and \textit{J.-M. Thevenin}: A graph based data structure for efficient implementation of main memory DBMS's, \textit{A. Wilchut}, \textit{P. Grefen}, \textit{P. Apers} and \textit{M. Kersten}: Implementing PRISMA/DB in an OOPL (OOPL means object-oriented parallel language); \underbar{Parallel Hashing and Sorting}, \textit{S. Pramanik} and \textit{M. H. Kim}: Database processing models in parallel processing systems (the presentation of some parallel processing strategies for maximizing throughput and minimizing response-time through conflict-free data accesses), \textit{B. Baugsto} and \textit{J. Greipsland}, Parallel sorting methods for large data volumes on a hypercube database computer, \textit{M. Kitsuregawa} and \textit{W. Yang}: Evaluation of 18-stage pipeline hardware sorter; \underbar{Pot-Pourri}, \textit{S. Khoshafian} and \textit{P. Valduriez}: A parallel container model for data intensive applications (proposes a parallel model with concurrent containers storing persistent objects), \textit{G. Hallmark}: Function request shipping in database machine environment, \textit{M. Abdelguerfi}: Special function unit for statistical aggregation functions (describes the design of a special purpose MOS processing unit for statistical functions such as SUM, COUNT and AVERAGE); \underbar{Associative Memories}, \textit{C. Ben Choi} and \textit{D. Lee}: Generic associative memory for information retrieval, \textit{K. C. Lee} and \textit{V. Mak}: Design and analysis of a parallel VLSI string search algorithm, \textit{M. Penaloza} and \textit{E. Ozkarahan}: Integrating integrity constraints with database filters implemented in hardware; \underbar{Memory Resident Database Systems}, \textit{M. Eich}: Main memory database research directions, \textit{R. Agrawal} and \textit{H. Jagadish}: Recovery algorithms for database machines with non-volatile main memory, \textit{A. Asthana}, \textit{H. Jagadish} and \textit{S. Knauer}: An intelligent memory transaction engine; \underbar{Deduction}, \textit{J.-P. Cheiney} and \textit{C. de Maindreville}: A parallel transitive closure algorithm using hash-based clustering, \textit{J. Miyazaki}, \textit{K. Takeda}, \textit{H. Amano} and \textit{A. Aiso}: A new version of a parallel production system machine, MANJI-II, \textit{S. Fujita}, \textit{R. Aibara}, \textit{M. Yamashita} and \textit{T. Ae}: A parallel processing architecture for real-time production systems with truth maintenance; \underbar{Project Retrospectives}, \textit{H. Herzog}, \textit{F. Hildebrandt}, \textit{H.-O. Leilich}, \textit{P. Mertinatsch}, \textit{G. Stiege} and \textit{H. Zeidler}: The Braunschweig relational database machine project results, \textit{K. Bratbergsengen} and \textit{T. Gjelsvik}: The development of the CROSS8 and HC-16 parallel (database) computers, \textit{L. Meng}: Analysis of some experimental results for the TDM. We point out the massive amount of research in parallelism in database processing and the high quality of all the articles in this volume.