This volume contains expanded and updated versions of papers
presented at CIKM 92, the First International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management, held in Baltimore,
Maryland, in November 1992. The conference participants came
from the fields of database management, information
retrieval, and artificial intelligence. A major theme in the
volume is how these fields are merging and enriching each
other. Theeight papers discuss: discovering context in a
conceptual schema; a system for face information retrieval;
queries in OODB systems; consistency checking in OODBs;
integrity constraints representation in OODBs; a framework
for temporal object databases; inductive dependencies and
approximate databases; OODB design methodologies.