Annotation Proceedings of an April 2001 conference examining recent progress in XML databases, data mining and clustering, document and text databases, deductive and knowledge bases, OLAP, indexing techniques, mobile computing and databases, query languages and processing, workflow management, visualization and multimedia databases, query processing and optimization, and heterogeneous and networked databases. Specific subjects discussed include distance courseware discrimination based on representative sentence assaying, a logical foundation for deductive object-oriented databases, multi-cube computation, and facilitating workflow evolution in an advanced object environment. Other subjects include a unified retrieval method for multimedia documents, and improving backward recovery in workflow systems. Lacks a subject index. c. Book News Inc.