This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems and Management of Data, CISMOD '95, held in Bombay, India, in November 1995.
The book presents 14 revised full papers selected from some 60 submissions together with six invited papers by leading experts. These papers address the central issues of research and advanced application in the area of data management and information systems engineering; they are organized in sections on query processing, distributed systems, performance evaluation, knowledge discovery, real-time database systems, product and process design, and conceptual modelling.

Conflictfreeness as a basis for schema integration.- Database schema design theory: Achievements and challenges.- Maintaining surrogate data for query acceleration in multilevel secure database systems.- Calibration of a DBMS cost model with the software testpilot.- 'Favourite' SQL-statements - An empirical analysis of SQL-usage in commercial applications.- Static allocation in Distributed Objectbase Systems: A graphical approach.- Estimating data accuracy in a federated database environment.- A study of distributed transaction processing in an internetwork.- The use of an object repository in the configuration of control systems at CERN.- Implementation and performance evaluation of compressed bit-sliced signature files.- Partial migration in an 8mm tape based tertiary storage file system and its performance evaluation through satellite image processing applications.- Some aspects of rule discovery in data bases.- Telesensation fusion of multi-media information and information highways.- Relational database design using an ER approach and Prolog.- Supporting distributed individual work in cooperative specification development.- Handling changes in dynamic specifications in object oriented systems.- The rejuvenation of materialized views.- Normalization of linear recursions based on graph transformations.- Data retrieval and aggregates in SQL */NR.- Partitioning pipelines with communication costs.