Database Systems for Advanced Applications '97: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications ... Research and Development Series, V. 6)

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA '97). DASFAA '97 focused on advanced database technologies and their applications. The 55 papers in this volume cover a wide range of areas in the field of database systems and applications - including the rapidly emerging areas of the Internet, multimedia and document database systems - and should be of interest to all database system researchers and practitioners.