Front matter
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XML Databases: Modeling and Multidimensional Indexing
Rudolf Bayer
2-11
Updatability in Federated Database Systems
Mong Li Lee, Sin Yeung Lee and Tok Wang Ling
12-21
Designing Semistructured Databases: A Conceptual Approach
Mong Li Lee, Sin Yeung Lee, Tok Wang Ling, Gillian Dobbie and Leonid A. Kalinichenko
22-31
Meaningful Change Detection on the Web⋆
S. Flesca, F. Furfaro and E. Masciari
32-41
Definition and Application of Metaclasses
Mohamed Dahchour
42-51
XSearch
: A Neural Network Based Tool for Components Search in a Distributed Object Environment
Aluízio Haendchen Filho, Hércules A. do Prado, Paulo Martins Engel and Arndt von Staa
52-61
Information Retrieval by Possibilistic Reasoning
Churn-Jung Liau and Y. Y. Yao
62-71
Extracting Temporal References to Assign Document Event-Time Periods*
D. Llidó, R. Berlanga and M. J. Aramburu
72-81
Techniques and Tools for the Temporal Analysis of Retrieved Information
Rafael Berlanga, Juan Pérez, María José Aramburu and Dolores Llidó
82-91
Page Classification for Meta-data Extraction from Digital Collections
Francesca Cesarini, Marco Lastri, Simone Marinai and Giovanni Soda
92-101
A New Conceptual Graph Formalism Adapted for Multilingual Information Retrieval Purposes
Catherine Roussey, Sylvie Calabretto and Jean-Marie Pinon
102-111
Flexible Comparison of Conceptual Graphs*
M. Montes-y-Gómez, A. Gelbukh, A. López-López and R. Baeza-Yates
112-121
Personalizing Digital Libraries for Learners
Su-Shing Chen, Othoniel Rodriguez, Chee-Yoong Choo, Yi Shang and Hongchi Shi
122-130
Interface for WordNet Enrichment with Classification Systems
Andrés Montoyo, Manuel Palomar and German Rigau
131-144
An Architecture for Database Marketing Systems
Sean W. M. Siqueira, Diva S. de e Silva, Elvira Ma A. Uchôa, Ma Helena L. B. Braz and Rubens N. Melo
145-154
NChiql: The Chinese Natural Language Interface to Databases
Xiaofeng Meng and Shan Wang
155-164
Pattern-Based Guidelines for Coordination Engineering
Patrick Etcheverry, Philippe Lopistéguy and Pantxika Dagorret
165-174
Information Management for Material Science Applications in a Virtual Laboratory
A. Frenkel, H. Afsarmanesh, G. Eijkel and L. O. Hertzberger
175-185
TREAT: A Reverse Engineering Method and Tool for Environmental Databases
Mohamed Ibrahim, Alexander M. Fedorec and Keith Rennolls
186-199
A Very Efficient Order Preserving Scalable Distributed Data Structure
Adriano Di Pasquale and Enrico Nardelli
200-210
Business, Culture, Politics, and Sports How to Find Your Way through a Bulk of News? On Content-Based Hierarchical Structuring and Organization of Large Document Archives
Michael Dittenbach, Andreas Rauber and Dieter Merkl
211-220
Feature Selection Using Association Word Mining for Classification
Su-Jeong Ko and Jung-Hyun Lee
221-231
Efficient Feature Mining in Music Objects
Jia-Ling Koh and William D. C. Yu
232-242
An Information-Driven Framework for Image Mining
Ji Zhang, Wynne Hsu and Mong Li Lee
243-253
A Rule-Based Scheme to Make Personal Digests from Video Program Meta Data
Takako Hashimoto, Yukari Shirota, Atsushi Iizawa and Hiroyuki Kitagawa
254-263
Casting Mobile Agents to Workflow Systems: On Performance and Scalability Issues
Jeong-Joon Yoo, Young-Ho Suh, Dong-Ik Lee, Seung-Woog Jung and Choul-Soo Jang, et al.
264-273
Anticipation to Enhance Flexibility of Workflow Execution
Daniela Grigori, François Charoy and Claude Godart
274-283
Coordinating Interorganizational Workflows Based on Process-Views
Minxin Shen and Duen-Ren Liu
284-298
Strategies for Semantic Caching
Luo Li, Birgitta König-Ries, Niki Pissinou and Kia Makki
299-308
Information Flow Control among Objects in Role-Based Access Control Model
Keiji Izaki, Katsuya Tanaka and Makoto Takizawa
309-318
Object Space Partitioning in a DL-Like Database and Knowledge Base Management System
Mathieu Roger, Ana Simonet and Michel Simonet
319-329
A Genome Databases Framework
Luiz Fernando Bessa Seibel and Sérgio Lifschitz
330-339
Lock Downgrading: An Approach to Increase Inter-transaction Parallelism in Advanced Database Applications1
Angelo Brayner
340-349
The SH-tree: A Super Hybrid Index Structure for Multidimensional Data
Tran Khanh Dang, Josef Küng and Roland Wagner
350-359
Concept-based visual information management with large lexical corpus
PanKoo Kim, Youngchoon Park, Forouzon Golshani and Sethuraman Panchanathan
360-369
Pyramidal Digest: An Efficient Model for Abstracting Text Databases
Wesley T. Chuang and D. StottParker
370-379
A Novel Full-Text Indexing Model for Chinese Text Retrieval1
Shuigeng Zhou, Yunfa Hu and Jiangtao Hu
380-389
Page Access Sequencing in Join Processing with Limited Buffer Space
Chen Qun, Andrew Lim and Oon Wee Chong
390-399
Dynamic Constraints Derivation and Maintenance in the Teradata RDBMS
Ahmad Ghazal and Ramesh Bhashyam
400-409
Improving Termination Analysis of Active Rules with Composite Events
Alain Couchot
410-421
TriGS Debugger - A Tool for Debugging Active Database Behavior1
G. Kappel, G. Kramler and W. Retschitzegger
422-431
Tab-Trees: A CASE Tool for the Design of Extended Tabular Systems⋆
Antoni Ligęza, Igor Wojnicki and Grzegorz J. Nalepa
432-441
A Framework for Databasing 3D Synthetic Environment Data
Roy Ladner, Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Ruth Wilson, John Breckenridge and Frank McCreedy, et al.
442-449
GOLAP - Geographical Online Analytical Processing
Petr Mikšovský and Zdenèk Kouba
450-459
Declustering Spatial Objects by Clustering for Parallel Disks
Hak-Cheol Kim and Ki-Joune Li
460-469
A Retrieval Method for Real-Time Spatial Data Browsing
Yoh Shiraishi and Yuichiro Anzai
470-480
Designing a Compression Engine for Multidimensional Raster Data⋆
Andreas Dehmel
481-490
DrawCAD: Using Deductive Object-Relational Databases in CAD
Mengchi Liu and Shilpesh Katragadda
491-500
A Statistical Approach to the Discovery of Ephemeral Associations among News Topics*
M. Montes-y-Gómez, A. Gelbukh and A. López-López
501-516
Improving Integrity Constraint Enforcement by Extended Rules and Dependency Graphs
Steffen Jurk and Mira Balaban
517-526
Statistical and Feature-Based Methods for Mobile Robot Position Localization
Roman Mázl, Miroslav Kulich and Libor Přeučil
527-536
Efficient View Maintenance Using Version Numbers
Eng Koon Sze and Tok Wang Ling
537-546
α-Partitioning Algorithm: Vertical Partitioning Based on the Fuzzy Graph
Jin HyunSon and Myoung HoKim
547-556
Using Market Mechanisms to Control Agent Allocation in Global Information Systems
I. N. Wang, N. J. Fiddian and W. A. Gray
557-566
Query Integration for Refreshing Web Views
Haifeng Liu, Wee-Keong Ng and Ee-Peng Lim
567-576
Size-Adjusted Sliding Window LFU - A New Web Caching Scheme
Wen-Chi Hou and Suli Wang
577-586
ViDE: A Visual Data Extraction Environment for the Web
Yi Li, Wee Keong Ng and Ee-Peng Lim
587-598
WebSCAN: Discovering and Notifying Important Changes of Web Sites⋆
Ma Qiang, Shinya Miyazaki and Katsumi Tanaka
599-608
Knowledge Base Maintenance through Knowledge Representation
John Debenham
609-620
ANKON: A Multi-agent System for Information Gathering
Claudia Diamantini and Maurizio Panti
621-631
Mining Astronomical Data
Bruno Voisin
632-645
Integration of WWW Applications Based on Extensible XML Query and Processing Languages
Norihide Shinagawa, Kouichi Kuragaki and Hiroyuki Kitagawa
646-656
Incorporating Dimensions in XML and DTD⋆
Manolis Gergatsoulis, Yannis Stavrakas and Dimitris Karteris
657-667
Keys with Upward Wildcards for XML
Wenfei Fan, Peter Schwenzer and Kun Wu
668-677
A Framework for the Classification and Description of Multidimensional Data Models
Alberto Abelló, José Samos and Félix Saltor
678-687
Range Top/Bottom k Queries in OLAP Sparse Data Cubes
Zhong Wei Luo, Tok Wang Ling, Chuan Heng Ang, Sin Yeung Lee and Bin Cui
688-698
On Formulation of Disjunctive Coupling Queries in WHOWEDA
Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wee Keong Ng and Sanjay Madria
699-711
Topic-Centric Querying of Web Information Resources
İ. S. Altingövde, S. A. özel, ö. Ulusoy, G. özsoyoğlu and Z. M. özsoyoğlu
712-722
WebCarousel: Automatic Presentation and Semantic Restructuring of Web Search Result for Mobile Environments
Akiyo Nadamoto, Hiroyuki Kondo and Katsumi Tanaka
723-733
Imposing Disjunctive Constraints on Inter-document Structure
Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wee Keong Ng and Sanjay Madria
734-743
A Semi-automatic Technique for Constructing a Global Representation of Information Sources Having Different Formats and Structure
Domenico Rosaci, Giorgio Terracina and Domenico Ursino
744-753
Integration of Topic Maps and Databases: Towards Efficient Knowledge Representation and Directory Services
Thomas Luckeneder, Knud Steiner and Wolfram Wöß
754-763
A Spatial Hypermedia Framework for Position-aware Information Delivery Systems
Haruhiko Hiramatsu, Kazutoshi Sumiya and Kuniaki Uehara
764-774
Ariadne, a Development Method for Hypermedia
Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo and Susana Montero
775-784
A General Approach to Compression of Hierarchical Indexes
Jukka Teuhola
785-794
Index and Data Allocation in Mobile Broadcast
Chen Qun, Andrew Lim and Zhu Yi
795-804
Modeling and Transformation of Object-Oriented Conceptual Models into XML Schema
Renguo Xiao, Tharam S. Dillon, E. Chang and Ling Feng
805-814
Adding Time to an Object-Oriented Versions Model1
Mirella Moura Moro, Silvia Maria Saggiorato, Nina Edelweiss and Clesio Saraiva dos Santos
815-825
Cache Conscious Clustering C3
Zhen He and Alonso Marquez
826-835
Closed External Schemas in Object-Oriented Databases
Manuel Torres and José Samos
836-845
Supporting Cooperative Inter-Organizational Business Transactions
Juha Puustjärvi and Harri Laine
846-856
O2PC-MT: A Novel Optimistic Two-Phase Commit Protocol for Mobile Transactions
Zhiming Ding, Xiaofeng Meng and Shan Wang
857-866
Quorum-Based Locking Protocol in Nested Invocations of Methods
Katsuya Tanaka and Makoto Takizawa
867-876
Applying Low-Level Query Optimization Techniques by Rewriting
Jacek Płodzień and Kazimierz Subieta
877-886
A Popularity-Driven Caching Scheme for Meta-search Engines: An Empirical Study+
Sang Ho Lee, Jin Seon Hong and Larry Kerschberg
887-896
Towards the Development of Heuristics for Automatic Query Expansion
Jesüs Vilares, Manuel Vilares and Miguel A. Alonso
897-908
Utilising Multiple Computers in Database Query Processing and Descriptor Rule Management
Jerome Robinson, Barry G. T. Lowden and Mohammed Al Haddad
909-922
Estimating Object-Relational Database Understandability Using Structural Metrics
Coral Calero, Houari A. Sahraoui, Mario Piattini and Hakim Lounis
923-932
CDM - Collaborative Data Model for Databases Supporting Groupware Applications
Waldemar Wieczerzycki
933-942
An Efficient Distributed Concurrency Control Algorithm using Two Phase Priority
Jong Sul Lee, Jae Ryong Shin and Jae Soo Yoo
943-952
A New Look at Timestamp Ordering Concurrency Control
Rashmi Srinivasa, Craig Williams and Paul F. Reynolds
953-962
On the Evaluation of Path-oriented Queries in Document Databases
Yangjun Chen and Gerald Huck
963-973
Reasoning with Disjunctive Constrained Tuple-Generating Dependencies
Junhu Wang, Rodney Topor and Michael Maher
974-983
A Method for Processing Boolean Queries Using a Result Cache
Jae-heon Cheong, Sang-goo Lee and Jonghoon Chun
984-988
Trends in Database Research
Mukesh Mohania, Yahiko Kambayashi, A. Min Tjoa, Roland Wagner and Ladjel Bellatreche
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