Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems [electronic resource] : First International Symposium, FoIKS 2000, Burg, Germany, February 14-17, 2000 Proceedings /

Low Discrepancy Allocation of Two-Dimensional Data -- A Family of Nested Query Languages for Semi-structured Data -- Decomposition of Database Classes under Path Functional Dependencies and Onto Constraints -- Imprecision and User Preferences in Multimedia Queries: A Generic Algebraic Approach -- Maximal Expansions of Database Updates -- Error-Correcting Keys in Relational Databases -- Extension of the Relational Algebra to Probabilistic Complex Values -- Persistent Turing Machines as a Model of Interactive Computation -- On Interactions of Cardinality Constraints, Key, and Functional Dependencies -- Capturing LOGSPACE over Hereditarily-Finite Sets -- Non-situation Calculus and Database Systems -- Dealing with Modification Requests During View Updating and Integrity Constraint Maintenance -- Making Decision Trees More Accurate by Losing Information -- High-Level Logic Programming -- Clausal Deductive Databases and a General Framework for Semantics in Disjunctive Deductive Databases -- Partial Evaluations in a Set-Theoretic Query Language for the WWW -- Minimum Matrix Representation of Some Key System -- Reflective Relational Machines Working on Homogeneous Databases.