The papers collected in this text were taken from an international conference on database and expert systems applications. They discuss topics including active databases, object-oriented systems, data engineering, information retrieval, workflow and co-operative systems and genetic algorithms.

Composite event management in TriGS — Concepts and implementation.- Towards a semantic event service for distributed active database applications.- Involving fuzzy concepts in active mobile databases.- An analytical study of object identifier indexing.- D02: Deductive object-oriented database system.- Selecting actions to trigger in active database applications.- Program understanding in databases reverse engineering.- Semantics based schema analysis.- Automatic derivation of terminological properties from database schemes.- A novel integration of OODBMS and information retrieval techniques for a document repository.- Rectangular decomposition of signature file: Design issues and performance evaluation.- Cumulative duality in designing information brokers.- A workflow system based on agents.- Multiuser transactions for collaborative database applications.- Modeling phenomena in spatiotemporal databases: Desiderata and solutions.- Rulebase checking using a spatial representation.- Hypermedia broadcasting with temporal links.- Inferring functional dependencies in linearly ordered databases.- Building consistent sample databases to support information system evolution and migration.- Process centred approach for developing tool support of situated methods.- A retrieval language for historical documents.- Modeling, indexing and retrieving images using conceptual graphs.- Applying document retrieval techniques in software engineering environments.- Browsing SGML documents with maps: The french “inventaire” experience.- An application-oriented approach for hytime structured document management.- Qualitative spatial relationships representation IO&T and its retrieval.- A qualitative approach to integration in spatial databases.- SVIQUEL: A spatial visual query andexploration language.- View adaptation in data warehousing systems.- Query containment checking as a view updating problem.- View updates translations in relational databases.- Optimisation of active rule agents using a genetic algorithm approach.- Optimization of constrained queries with a hybrid genetic algorithm.- Highlights of the SAMMOA framework for object oriented application modelling.- Virtual enterprises and federated information sharing.- Facilitating virtual representation of CAD data through a learning based approach to conceptual database evolution employing direct instance sharing.- Evaluation of the strength of computer aided method engineering for product development process modeling.- Distributed light-weight persistence in Java — A tour on RMI-and CORBA-based solutions.- Specifying the interaction between information sources.- HEROS: A heterogeneous object oriented database system.- An architecture for nested transaction support on standard database systems.- Transaction-based coordination of software agents.- Object-based group protocol.- Aurora: An architecture for dynamic and adaptive work sessions in open environments.- Design of secure distributed medical database systems.- Modeling of subjective interpretation for street landscape image.- Extend Dexter model to capture more semantics of hypermedia.- A generic framework for structured document access.- An evolvable personal advisor to optimize internet search technologies.- Indexing valid time intervals.- Indexing time-series databases for inverse queries.- Implementing embedded valid time query languages.- On the correctness of a transaction model for mobile computin.- A single-phase non-blocking atomic commitment protocol.- A global garbage collector for federated database managementsystems.- Rule-based management of routing plans in CIM systems.- Applications of model-based co-operative agents in production planning.- Open architecture for natural language distributed systems.- Join processing in web databases.- TENTACLE: A database system for the world wide web.- Workey: A method and tool to build web-enabled workflows.- Attribute-pair range rules.- Query-driven horizontal class partitioning for object-oriented databases.- An extended meta model for conditional fragmentation.- Query by example for nested tables.- A new heuristic for optimizing large queries.- Discovery of user-interests from range queries.- Database architecture for data warehousing: An evolutionary approach.- An integrated platform for the evaluation of spatial query processing strategies.- On updating the data warehouse from multiple data sources.- Concurrent warehouse maintenance without compromising session consistency.- Mining flexible multiple-level association rules in all concept hierarchies.- A framework for temporal data mining.- KD in FM: Knowledge discovery in facilities management databases.- CIA's view of the world and what neural networks learn from it: A comparison of geographical document space representation metaphors.- Learning concepts from databases.- Rule extraction using rough sets when membership values are intervals.- Using semantic links for reuse in Knowledge Base Systems.- Incremental updating of classification rules.- Declarative semantics for active rules.- Towards visual schemas in deductive databases.- Incorporating methods and encapsulation into deductive object-oriented database languages.