Database and Expert Systems Applications: 12th International Conference, DEXA 2001 Munich, Germany, September 3–5, 2001 Proceedings

XML Databases: Modeling and Multidimensional Indexing....Pages 1-1
Updatability in Federated Database Systems....Pages 2-11
Designing Semistructured Databases: A Conceptual Approach....Pages 12-21
Meaningful Change Detection on the Web⋆....Pages 22-31
Definition and Application of Metaclasses....Pages 32-41
 XSearch : A Neural Network Based Tool for Components Search in a Distributed Object Environment....Pages 42-51
Information Retrieval by Possibilistic Reasoning....Pages 52-61
Extracting Temporal References to Assign Document Event-Time Periods*....Pages 62-71
Techniques and Tools for the Temporal Analysis of Retrieved Information....Pages 72-81
Page Classification for Meta-data Extraction from Digital Collections....Pages 82-91
A New Conceptual Graph Formalism Adapted for Multilingual Information Retrieval Purposes....Pages 92-101
Flexible Comparison of Conceptual Graphs*....Pages 102-111
Personalizing Digital Libraries for Learners....Pages 112-121
Interface for WordNet Enrichment with Classification Systems....Pages 122-130
An Architecture for Database Marketing Systems....Pages 131-144
NChiql: The Chinese Natural Language Interface to Databases....Pages 145-154
Pattern-Based Guidelines for Coordination Engineering....Pages 155-164
Information Management for Material Science Applications in a Virtual Laboratory....Pages 165-174
TREAT: A Reverse Engineering Method and Tool for Environmental Databases....Pages 175-185
A Very Efficient Order Preserving Scalable Distributed Data Structure....Pages 186-199
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....Pages 200-210
Feature Selection Using Association Word Mining for Classification....Pages 211-220
Efficient Feature Mining in Music Objects....Pages 221-231
An Information-Driven Framework for Image Mining....Pages 232-242
A Rule-Based Scheme to Make Personal Digests from Video Program Meta Data....Pages 243-253
Casting Mobile Agents to Workflow Systems: On Performance and Scalability Issues....Pages 254-263
Anticipation to Enhance Flexibility of Workflow Execution....Pages 264-273
Coordinating Interorganizational Workflows Based on Process-Views....Pages 274-283
Strategies for Semantic Caching....Pages 284-298
Information Flow Control among Objects in Role-Based Access Control Model....Pages 299-308
Object Space Partitioning in a DL-Like Database and Knowledge Base Management System....Pages 309-318
A Genome Databases Framework....Pages 319-329
Lock Downgrading: An Approach to Increase Inter-transaction Parallelism in Advanced Database Applications 1 ....Pages 330-339
The SH-tree: A Super Hybrid Index Structure for Multidimensional Data....Pages 340-349
Concept-based visual information management with large lexical corpus....Pages 350-359
Pyramidal Digest: An Efficient Model for Abstracting Text Databases....Pages 360-369
A Novel Full-Text Indexing Model for Chinese Text Retrieval 1 ....Pages 370-379
Page Access Sequencing in Join Processing with Limited Buffer Space....Pages 380-389
Dynamic Constraints Derivation and Maintenance in the Teradata RDBMS....Pages 390-399
Improving Termination Analysis of Active Rules with Composite Events....Pages 400-409
TriGS Debugger - A Tool for Debugging Active Database Behavior 1 ....Pages 410-421
Tab-Trees: A CASE Tool for the Design of Extended Tabular Systems⋆....Pages 422-431
A Framework for Databasing 3D Synthetic Environment Data....Pages 432-441
GOLAP - Geographical Online Analytical Processing....Pages 442-449
Declustering Spatial Objects by Clustering for Parallel Disks....Pages 450-459
A Retrieval Method for Real-Time Spatial Data Browsing....Pages 460-469
Designing a Compression Engine for Multidimensional Raster Data⋆....Pages 470-480
DrawCAD: Using Deductive Object-Relational Databases in CAD....Pages 481-490
A Statistical Approach to the Discovery of Ephemeral Associations among News Topics*....Pages 491-500
Improving Integrity Constraint Enforcement by Extended Rules and Dependency Graphs....Pages 501-516
Statistical and Feature-Based Methods for Mobile Robot Position Localization....Pages 517-526
Efficient View Maintenance Using Version Numbers....Pages 527-536
α-Partitioning Algorithm: Vertical Partitioning Based on the Fuzzy Graph....Pages 537-546
Using Market Mechanisms to Control Agent Allocation in Global Information Systems....Pages 547-556
Query Integration for Refreshing Web Views....Pages 557-566
Size-Adjusted Sliding Window LFU - A New Web Caching Scheme....Pages 567-576
ViDE: A Visual Data Extraction Environment for the Web....Pages 577-586
WebSCAN: Discovering and Notifying Important Changes of Web Sites⋆....Pages 587-598
Knowledge Base Maintenance through Knowledge Representation....Pages 599-608
ANKON: A Multi-agent System for Information Gathering....Pages 609-620
Mining Astronomical Data....Pages 621-631
Integration of WWW Applications Based on Extensible XML Query and Processing Languages....Pages 632-645
Incorporating Dimensions in XML and DTD⋆....Pages 646-656
Keys with Upward Wildcards for XML....Pages 657-667
A Framework for the Classification and Description of Multidimensional Data Models....Pages 668-677
Range Top/Bottom k Queries in OLAP Sparse Data Cubes....Pages 678-687
On Formulation of Disjunctive Coupling Queries in WHOWEDA ....Pages 688-698
Topic-Centric Querying of Web Information Resources....Pages 699-711
WebCarousel: Automatic Presentation and Semantic Restructuring of Web Search Result for Mobile Environments....Pages 712-722
Imposing Disjunctive Constraints on Inter-document Structure....Pages 723-733
A Semi-automatic Technique for Constructing a Global Representation of Information Sources Having Different Formats and Structure....Pages 734-743
Integration of Topic Maps and Databases: Towards Efficient Knowledge Representation and Directory Services....Pages 744-753
A Spatial Hypermedia Framework for Position-aware Information Delivery Systems....Pages 754-763
Ariadne, a Development Method for Hypermedia....Pages 764-774
A General Approach to Compression of Hierarchical Indexes....Pages 775-784
Index and Data Allocation in Mobile Broadcast....Pages 785-794
Modeling and Transformation of Object-Oriented Conceptual Models into XML Schema....Pages 795-804
Adding Time to an Object-Oriented Versions Model 1 ....Pages 805-814
Cache Conscious Clustering C3....Pages 815-825
Closed External Schemas in Object-Oriented Databases....Pages 826-835
Supporting Cooperative Inter-Organizational Business Transactions....Pages 836-845
O2PC-MT: A Novel Optimistic Two-Phase Commit Protocol for Mobile Transactions....Pages 846-856
Quorum-Based Locking Protocol in Nested Invocations of Methods....Pages 857-866
Applying Low-Level Query Optimization Techniques by Rewriting....Pages 867-876
A Popularity-Driven Caching Scheme for Meta-search Engines: An Empirical Study+....Pages 877-886
Towards the Development of Heuristics for Automatic Query Expansion....Pages 887-896
Utilising Multiple Computers in Database Query Processing and Descriptor Rule Management....Pages 897-908
Estimating Object-Relational Database Understandability Using Structural Metrics....Pages 909-922
CDM - Collaborative Data Model for Databases Supporting Groupware Applications....Pages 923-932
An Efficient Distributed Concurrency Control Algorithm using Two Phase Priority....Pages 933-942
A New Look at Timestamp Ordering Concurrency Control....Pages 943-952
On the Evaluation of Path-oriented Queries in Document Databases....Pages 953-962
Reasoning with Disjunctive Constrained Tuple-Generating Dependencies....Pages 963-973
A Method for Processing Boolean Queries Using a Result Cache....Pages 974-983
Trends in Database Research....Pages 984-988