This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA ''97). DASFAA ''97 focused on advanced database technologies and their applications. The 55 papers in this volume cover a wide range of areas in the field of database systems and applications - including the rapidly emerging areas of the Internet, multimedia, and document database systems - and should be of great interest to all database system researchers and developers, and practitioners.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA ''97). DASFAA ''97 focused on advanced database technologies and their applications. The 55 papers in this volume cover a wide range of areas in the field of database systems and applications - including the rapidly emerging areas of the Internet, multimedia, and document database systems - and should be of great interest to all database system researchers and developers, and practitioners.