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Contains keynote speeches and papers from a workshop organized by the Hong Kong Computer Society, in sections on reengineering, interoperability, and integration. Topics include reengineering library data; reverse engineering in a client-server environment; flexible transaction management in an interoperable database environment; semantic interoperability in homogeneous application domains; extensional issues in schema integration; and database replica management strategies in multidatabase systems with mobile hosts. For database researchers and practitioners. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.