The following papers (listed in a random order) have been accepted at the
 
 6th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT '97),
 
 Delphi, Greece - January 8-10, 1997.
 
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   Semantics and Containment with Internal and External Conjunctions
      ---  G. Grahne,  N. Spyratos, D. Stamate
 
   Total and Partial Well-Founded Datalog Coincide
      ---  J. Flum,  M. Kubierschky, B. Ludascher
 
   Correspondence and Translation for Heterogeneous Data
      ---  S. Abiteboul,   S. Cluet,   T. Milo 
 
   Discovering all most specific sentences by randomized algorithms
      ---  D. Gunopoulos,  H. Mannila,  S. Saluja 
 
   A Model Theoretic Approach to Update Rule Programs
      ---  N. Bidoit,   S. Maabout 
 
   Fine Hierarchies of Generic Computation
      ---  J. Tyszkiewicz
 
   The Complexity of Iterated Belief Revision
      ---  P. Liberatore 
 
   A Formal Foundation for Distributed Workflow Execution Based on State Charts
      ---  D. Wodtke,  G. Weikum 
 
   Performance of Nearest Neighbor Queries in R-trees
      ---  A. Papadopoulos,  Y. Manolopoulos
 
   Expressiveness and Complexity of Active Databases
      ---  P.Picouet,  V.Vianu  
 
   Adding Structure to Unstructured Data
      ---  P.Buneman,  S.Davidson,  M. Fernandez, D.Suciu  
 
   Type consistency problems for queries
           in object-oriented databases
      ---  Y. Ishihara,  H. Seki,  M. Ito
 
   Optimal allocation of two-dimensional data
      ---  K. Abdel-Ghaffar, A. El Abbadi
 
   On topological elementary equivalence of spatial databases
      ---  B. Kuijpers,   J. Paredaens,  J. Van den Bussche
 
   Object-oriented database evolution
      ---  J.-B. Lagorce,   A. Stockus,  E. Waller
 
   Local properties of query languages
      ---   G. Dong , L. Libkin, L. Wong
 
   Concurrency control theory for deferred materialized views
      ---   A. Kawaguchi , D. Lieuwen, I. Mumick, D. Quass,  K. Ross
 
   Efficient indexing for constraint and temporal databases
      ---   S. Ramaswamy
 
   Serializability of nested transactions in multidatabases
      ---  U. Halici, B. Arpinar, A. Dogac

   Efficient complete tests for conjunctive query
          constraints with negation
      ---  N. Huyn
 
   Incorporating user preferences in multimedia queries
      --- R. Fagin,   E.L. Wimmers
 
   Tractable iteration mechanisms for bag languages
      --- L. Colby, L. Libkin,     
 
   Dynamic constraint databases for spatial data
      --- P.Z. Revesz
 
   Queries and computation on the web
      ---  S. Abiteboul,   V. Vianu
 
   Selection of views to materialize in a data warehouse
      ---  H. Gupta
 
   Conjunctive query containment revisited
      ---  C. Chekuri, A. Rajaraman
 
   Abstract interpretation of active rules and its use in
        termination analysis
      --- J. Bailey,  L. Crnogorac,  K. Ramamohanarao , H. Sondergaard
 
   Structural issues in active rule systems
      --- J. Bailey,  G. Dong, K. Ramamohanarao
 
   Expressive Power of Unary Counters
      --- M. Benedikt,   H.J. Keisler