Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the Use of Functions in the Management of Data.- to Section I: Advances in Information Modelling using a Functional Approach.- 2. A Functional Database Language for the Associative Model of Data.- 3. Scoped Referential Transparency in a Functional Database Language.- 4. Functional Approaches to Constraint Handling and State Change.- 5. Representing Matrices Using Multi-Directional Foreign Functions.- to Section II: Advances in Information Integration and Interoperability.- 6. The Kleisli Approach to Data Transformation and Integration.- 7. An Expressive Functional Data Model and Query Language for Bioinformatics Data Integration.- 8. Optimisation Strategies for Functional Queries in a Distributed Environment.- 9. Functional Data Integration in a Distributed Mediator System.- 10. Applying Functional Languages in Knowledge-Based Information Integration Systems.- to Section III: Advances in Analysis and Optimisation using a Functional Approach.- 11. Analysis of Functional Active Databases.- 12. Monad Comprehensions: A Versatile Representation for Queries.- 13. Query Processing and Optimization in ?-DB.- 14. A Structural Approach to Query Language Design.- to Section IV: Looking Forward to Functional Approaches for Semi-Structured Data.- 15. Functional Approach in Internet-Based Applications: Enabling the Semantic Web, E-Business, Web Services and Agent-Based Knowledge Management.- 16. A Functional Approach to XML-Based Dynamic Negotiation in E-Business.- 17. An FDM-Based Constraint Language for Semantic Web Applications.- 18. RQL: A Functional Query Language for RDF.- 19. Functional Queries to Wrapped Educational Semantic Web Meta-Data.- Author Index.