These proceedings record the research and experiences of various researchers from Australia and other countries in databases and information systems. The papers were selected based on their originality, content, relevance and style. Topics discussed include advanced database applications; information analysis and data modelling; object-oriented DBMS; distributed, heterogeneous and parallel database systems; information resource planning and management; etc.

This volume represents a valuable collective contribution to the research and development of database systems. It contains papers in a variety of topics such as data models, distributed databases, multimedia databases, concurrency control, hypermedia and document processing, user interface, query processing and database applications.

This proceedings contains the latest reports on research, development and novel applications of database systems. Topics covered include: database design, parallel and distributed databases, storage structures, integrity constraints, deductive databases and theoretical aspects of databases.

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 of proceedings contains original papers of good technical quality which present recent developments in databases and knowledge based systems and their applications to practical problems. Topics covered include databases and temporal databases, object-oriented modelling and object-oriented databases, deductive databases, distributed database and information systems, database design issues and intelligent databases. The papers reflect the importance of databases and the work being done on them.