This volume contains expanded and updated versions of paperspresented at CIKM 92, the First International Conference onInformation and Knowledge Management, held in Baltimore,Maryland, in November 1992. The conference participants camefrom the fields of database management, informationretrieval, and artificial intelligence. A major theme in thevolume is how these fields are merging and enriching eachother. Theeight papers discuss: discovering context in aconceptual schema; a system for face information retrieval;queries in OODB systems; consistency checking in OODBs;integrity constraints representation in OODBs; a frameworkfor temporal object databases; inductive dependencies andapproximate databases; OODB design methodologies.
