Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Parallel Database and Knowledge--Base Systems (M. Abdelguerfi & S. Lavington). DATABASE MACHINES. 2. IDIOMS: A Multitransputer Database Machine (J. Kerridge). 3. From DBC to MDBS A Progression in Database Machine Research (D. Hsiao & W. Wang). 4. Rinda: A Relational Database Processor for Large Databases (T. Satoh & U. Inoue). 5. A Paginated Set--Associate Architecture for Databases (P. Faudemay). 6. Parallel Multi--Wavefront Algorithms for Pattern--Based Processing of Object--Oriented Databases (S. Su, et al.). 7. The Datacycle Architecture: A Database Broadcast System (T. Bowen, et al.). USING MASSIVELY--PARALLEL GENERAL COMPUTING PLATFORMS FOR DBMS. 8. Industrial Database Supercomputer Exegesis: The DBC/1012, The NCR 3700, The Ynet, and The Bynet (F. Carino, et al.). 9. A Massively Parallel Indexing Engine Using DAP (N. Bond & S. Reddaway). KNOWLEDGE--BASE MACHINES. 10. The IFS/2: Add--on Support for Knowledge--Base Systems (S. Lavington). 11. EDS: An Advanced Parallel Database Server (L. Borrmann, et al.). 12. A Parallel and Distributed Environment for Database Rule Processing: Open Problems and Future Directions (S. Stolfo, et al.). ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINES. 13. IXM2: A Parallel Associative Processor for Knowledge Processing (T. Higuchi). 14. An Overview of the Knowledge Crunching Machine (J Noye).

About the Author

Mahdi Abdelguerfi is the author of Emerging Trends in Database and Knowledge Based Machines: The Application of Parallel Architectures to Smart Information Systems, published by Wiley. Simon Lavington is the author of Emerging Trends in Database and Knowledge Based Machines: The Application of Parallel Architectures to Smart Information Systems, published by Wiley.