This volume presents the proceedings of the Fourth International
Conference on Data Organization and Algorithms, FODO '93, held in
Evanston, Illinois. FODO '93 reflects the maturing of the database field
which hasbeen driven by the enormous growth in the range of applications
for databasesystems. The "non-standard" applications of the
not-so-distant past, such ashypertext, multimedia, and scientific and
engineering databases, now provide some of the central motivation for
the advances in hardware technology and data organizations and
algorithms. The volume contains 3 invited talks, 22 contributed papers,
and 2 panel papers. The contributed papers are grouped into parts on
multimedia, access methods, text processing, query processing,
industrial applications, physical storage, andnew directions.