This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA '97). DASFAA '97 focused on advanced database technologies and their applications. The 55 papers in this volume cover a wide range of areas in the field of database systems and applications ? including the rapidly emerging areas of the Internet, multimedia, and document database systems ? and should be of great interest to all database system researchers and developers, and practitioners.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA '97). DASFAA '97 focused on advanced database technologies and their applications. The 55 papers in this volume cover a wide range of areas in the field of database systems and applications - including the rapidly emerging areas of the Internet, multimedia, and document database systems - and should be of great interest to all database system researchers and developers, and practitioners.

This volume covers topics including: database engineering; data management; distribution and interoperability; OODMS and RDMS; data warehouses and scientific databases; electronic commerce and the web; CSCW and distance learning; spatial data and handwriting; and query optimization.

These conference papers cover the 6th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications. They examine topics such as the World Wide Web, workflow management and specification management, visualization and multimedia databases, spatial databases, and index techniques."