Download or read book Young Investigator's Award and Distributed Self-Adaptive Databases written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of the adaptive database project at the University of Colorado is to develop techniques which will make database systems useful for newer applications, such as engineering design. In such cases, there is a need to support complex, computed data, as well a need to hand-tailor a database system to suit specific processing requirements, for example, version support and document management. Two different experimental systems, one addressing each of these concerns, are under construction. The algorithms and techniques developed for these systems are intended to help relieve the advanced database user from the highly constrained mechanisms which traditional database management systems provide. (kr).