By Malcolm Atkinson (auth.), Klaus Dittrich, Giovanna Guerrini, Isabella Merlo, Marta Oliva, M.Elena Rodriguez (eds.)
These post-proceedings comprise the revised models of the papers offered on the \Symposium on items and Databases" which was once held in Sophia-Antipolis, France, June thirteen, 2000, along with the Fourteenth ecu convention on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2000. This occasion endured the t- dition verified the 12 months ahead of in Lisbon (Portugal) with the 1st Workshop on Object-Oriented Databases. The objective of the symposium used to be to compile researchers operating in quite a few corners of the eld of gadgets and databases, to debate the present nation of analysis within the eld and to severely overview present suggestions when it comes to their present utilization, their successes and obstacles, and their strength for brand new functions. The organizing committee obtained 21 papers which have been reviewed via a p- gram committee of individuals lively within the eld of gadgets and databases. there have been three reports for every paper, and nally the organizing committee chosen nine lengthy papers, 2 brief papers, and an illustration to be awarded and mentioned on the symposium. the chosen papers disguise a large spectrum of themes, together with info modeling innovations, power item languages, consistency and integrity of continual facts, garage buildings, type versioning and schema evolution, question languages, and temporal object-oriented databases. as well as the common papers, the symposium incorporated an invited p- sentation, given by means of Prof. Malcolm Atkinson from the collage of Glasgow (Scotland) the place he heads the patience and Distribution Group.