Das Buch präsentiert zentrale Konzepte und Methoden des relationalen Datenmodells, einschließlich Schemaentwurf, Integritätsbedingungen und Anfragesprachen. Es behandelt auch Hypergraphen, Sichten und Nullwerte sowie Erweiterungen für komplexe Datenstrukturen und deduktive Datenbanksysteme.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents - DAI Meets Databases, CIA-97, held in Kiel, Germany, in February 1997. The book opens with 6 invited full papers by internationally leading researchers surveying the state of the art in the area. The 16 revised full research papers presented were carefully selected during a highly competitive round of reviewing. The papers are organized in topical sections on databases and agent technology, agents for database search and knowledge discovery, communication and cooperation among information agents, and agent-based access to heterogeneous information sources.