This volume is intended for researchers, practitioners, and members of the business community interested in the shape of data management in the years to come. The volume is both retrospective and future oriented and the chapters recapitulate current 1980s database research and applications.

The book reports on the latest advances and challenges of soft computing. It gathers original scientific contributions written by top scientists in the field and covering theories, methods and applications in a number of research areas related to soft-computing, such as decision-making, probabilistic reasoning, image processing, control, neural networks and

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Fundamentals of objet-oriented databases; Object-oriented fundamentals; Semantic data models and persistent languages; Object-oriented database systems; Implementation; Transaction processing; Special features; Relational extensions and extensible databases; Interfaces; Applications.

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