6th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (Dasfaa '99)

Contains 38 papers from an April 1999 conference on novel applications of database technology, covering areas such as the Web, workflow management, document retrieval, object databases, visualization and multimedia databases, transaction management, data warehousing, distributed databases, mobile databases, index techniques, data analysis and mining, and spatial databases. Specific topics include a video description model based on prototype-instance model, a scheduling method for wireless data broadcast, feature reduction for neural network-based text categorization, and materialized view maintenance using version numbers. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.