This volume presents the proceedings of the First International
Conference on Applications of Databases, ADB-94, held at Vadstena,
Sweden in June 1994. ADB-94 provided a unique platform for the
discussion of innovative applications of databases among database
researchers, developers and application designers. The 28 refereed
papers were carefully selected from more than 100 submissions. They
report on DB applications, for example in air traffic, modelling, maps,
environment, finance, engineering, electronic publishing, and digital
libraries, and they are devoted to advanced database services, as for
example image text and multimedia modelling, fuzzy set based querying,
knowledge management, heterogeneous multidatabase management, and
intelligent networks.