Special Issue on Advanced Database Technologies
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 . FOREWORD ....................................................... 1333
        Shunsuke UEMURA

PAPERS
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[Advanced Applications]

 . Database Systems for Structured Documents ...................... 1335
        Ron SACKS-DAVIS, Timothy ARNOLD-MOORE, and Justin ZOBEL

 . Abstraction and Inheritance of HyperLinks in an Object-Oriented
   Hypertext Database System TextLink/Gem ......................... 1343
        Qing QIAN, Masaaki TANIZAKI, and Katsumi TANAKA

 . Architecture and Storage Structure of an Interactive Multimedia
   Information System ............................................. 1354
        Ryoji KATAOKA, Tetsuji SATOH, and Ushio INOUE

 . Data Model and Architecture of Multimedia Database for Engineering
   Applications ................................................... 1362
        Hiroshi ARISAWA, Takashi TOMII, Hitoshi YUI, and Hidehiko
        ISHIKAWA

 . Cooperative Query Formulation for Geographic Databases ......... 1369
        Masatoshi ARIKAWA, Ken'ichi HORIKAWA, and Yahiko KAMBAYASHI

 . Data Classification Component in a Deductive Database System and Its
   Application to Protein Structural Analysis ..................... 1377
        Akio NISHIKAWA, Kenji SATOU, Emiko FURUICHI, Satoru KUHARA, and
        Kazuo USHIJIMA

[Interoperability]

 . Co-database Approach to Database Interoperability .............. 1388
        Athman BOUGUETTAYA and Stephen MILLINER

 . The Design and Implementation of an Interoperable Database System
   Based on Scripts and Active Objects ............................ 1396
        Hiroshi ISHIKAWA, Kazumi KUBOTA, and Koki KATO

 . An HTTP Gateway for Interactive Relational Database Query with
   Deferred Reply ................................................. 1407
        Michael BJONRN and Ryosuke HOTAKA

[Implementation]

 . Rule-Based Query Rewriting in the Flora Optimizer .............. 1412
        Daniela FLORESCU and Patrick VALDURIEZ

 . Design and Performance Analysis of Indexing Schemes for Set
   Retrieval of Nested Objects .................................... 1424
        Yoshiharu ISHIKAWA and Hiroyuki KITAGAWA

 . Efficient Retrieval of Labeled Binary Trees .................... 1433
        Hans ARGENTON and Peter BECKER

 . Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Distributed
   Paged-Object Storage Server .................................... 1439
        Guangyi BAI and Akifumi MAKINOUCHI

[Model]

 . On Locking Protocols in Object-Oriented Database Systems ....... 1449
        Shinichi TANIGUCHI, Budiarto, and Shojiro NISHIO

 . Specialization Constraints for a Complex Object Model Supporting
   Selective Inheritance .......................................... 1458
        Nobutaka SUZUKI and Minoru ITO

 . A Statically Typed, Temporal Object-Oriented Database Technology
            ....................................................... 1469
        Suad ALAGICL

 . An Object-Oriented Approach to Temporal Multimedia Data Modeling
            ....................................................... 1477
        Yoshifumi MASUNAGA

Regular Section
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PAPERS
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[Automata, Languages and Theory of Computing]

 . Control Problem of a Class of Pushdown Automata Based on Posets and
   Its Application to Resolution Deductions ....................... 1488
        Susumu YAMASAKI

[Computer Systems]

 . A Block Management Mechanism for Multimedia Files .............. 1498
        Tae Il JEONG and Sung Jo KIM

[Bio-Cybernetics and Neurocomputing]

 . A New Approach to Rule Learning Based on Fusion of Fuzzy Logic and
   Neural Networks ................................................ 1509
        Rui-Ping LI and Masao MUKAIDONO

LETTER
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[Speech Processing and Acoustics]

 . The Role of Coherence in Regulating the Time-Asymmetry of a Spectral
   Predictive Discrimination Model ................................ 1515
        P.V.S.RAO and R.RAVEENDRAN

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-D-I, J78-D-II, No.11 in Japanese)
            ....................................................... 1519