Invited Talks -- Ten Years of Activity in Active Database Systems: What Have We Accomplished? -- Optimizing Active Database Transactions: A New Perspective -- A Case for Better Language and Compiler Support for Real-Time Database Systems -- The Origin of TCs -- Paper Presentations -- Time Issues in Advanced Workflow Management Applications of Active Databases -- Optimization of Active Rules with Parallelism -- Object Oriented Real-Time Database Design and Hierarchical Control Systems -- Temporal Conditions with Retroactive and Proactive Updates -- Issues in Active Real-Time Databases -- On Providing Soft and Hard Real-Time Capabilities in an Active DBMS -- An Algorithm for the Analysis of Termination of Large Trigger Sets in an OODBMS -- A Uniform Model to Express the Behaviour of Rules with Different Semantics -- An Efficient Real-Time Optimistic Concurrency Control Protocol -- Data Placement, Logging and Recovery in Real-Time Active Databases -- An Evaluation of Network Access Protocols for Distributed Real-Time Database Systems -- Moderated Session and Closing Session -- System Issues in Supporting Active Real-Time Databases -- Wrap-Up Statement -- Author Index.