Database and Expert Systems Applications: 15th International Conference, Dexa 2004, Zaragoza, Spain, August 30-September 3, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004)

Workflow I.- Supporting Contract Execution through Recommended Workflows.- An Ontology-Driven Process Modeling Framework.- Ensuring Task Dependencies During Workflow Recovery.- Web Service Based Architecture for Workflow Management Systems.- Active and Deductive DB Aspects.- Feasibility Conditions and Preference Criteria in Querying and Repairing Inconsistent Databases.- An Active Functional Intensional Database.- Optimal Deployment of Triggers for Detecting Events.- A New Approach for Checking Schema Validation Properties.- Workflow II.- Autonomic Group Protocol for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Systems.- On Evolution of XML Workflow Schemata.- A Framework for Selecting Workflow Tools in the Context of Composite Information Systems.- Queries I (Multidimensional Indexing).- Evaluation Strategies for Bitmap Indices with Binning.- On the Automation of Similarity Information Maintenance in Flexible Query Answering Systems.- An Efficient Neighbor Searching Scheme of Distributed Collaborative Filtering on P2P Overlay Network.- Applications.- Partially Ordered Preferences Applied to the Site Location Problem in Urban Planning.- A Flexible Fuzzy Expert System for Fuzzy Duplicate Elimination in Data Cleaning.- DBSitter: An Intelligent Tool for Database Administration.- Interacting with Electronic Institutions.- Queries II (Multidimensional Indexing).- Growing Node Policies of a Main Memory Index Structure for Moving Objects Databases.- Optimal Subspace Dimensionality for k-NN Search on Clustered Datasets.- PCR-Tree: An Enhanced Cache Conscious Multi-dimensional Index Structures.- Knowledge Processing und Information Retrieval.- Classification Decision Combination for Text Categorization: An Experimental Study.- Information Extraction via Automatic Pattern Discovery in Identified Region.- CRISOL: An Approach for Automatically Populating Semantic Web from Unstructured Text Collections.- Text Categorization by a Machine-Learning-Based Term Selection.- Queries III (XML).- Update Conscious Inverted Indexes for XML Queries in Relational Databases.- A Selective Key-Oriented XML Index for the Index Selection Problem in XDBMS.- SUCXENT: An Efficient Path-Based Approach to Store and Query XML Documents.- Querying Distributed Data in a Super-Peer Based Architecture.- Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval I.- Phrase Similarity through the Edit Distance.- A Document Model Based on Relevance Modeling Techniques for Semi-structured Information Warehouses.- Retrieving Relevant Portions from Structured Digital Documents.- Query IV (OLAP).- Parallel Hierarchical Data Cube for Range Sum Queries and Dynamic Updates.- A Bitmap Index for Multidimensional Data Cubes.- Analytical Synopses for Approximate Query Answering in OLAP Environments.- Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval II.- Morphological and Syntactic Processing for Text Retrieval.- Efficient Top-k Query Processing in P2P Network.- Improved Data Retrieval Using Semantic Transformation.- A Structure-Based Filtering Method for XML Management Systems.- Mobile Information Systems.- Uncertainty Management for Network Constrained Moving Objects.- Towards Context-Aware Data Management for Ambient Intelligence.- TriM: Tri-Modal Data Communication in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.- Knowledge Processing I.- Efficient Rule Base Verification Using Binary Decision Diagrams.- How to Model Visual Knowledge: A Study of Expertise in Oil-Reservoir Evaluation.- A New Approach of Eliminating Redundant Association Rules.- An a Priori Approach for Automatic Integration of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Databases.- Knowledge Processing II.- PC-Filter: A Robust Filtering Technique for Duplicate Record Detection in Large Databases.- On Efficient and Effective Association Rule Mining from XML Data.- Support for Constructing Theories in Case Law Domains.- Knowledge Processing III.- Identifying Audience Preferences in Legal and Social Domains.- Characterizing Database User’s Access Patterns.- Using Case Based Retrieval Techniques for Handling Anomalous Situations in Advisory Dialogues.- A Probabilistic Approach to Classify Incomplete Objects Using Decision Trees.- XML I.- A Graph-Based Data Model to Represent Transaction Time in Semistructured Data.- Effective Clustering Schemes for XML Databases.- Detecting Content Changes on Ordered XML Documents Using Relational Databases.- Timestamp-Based Protocols for Synchronizing Access on XML Documents.- Distributed and Parallel Data Bases I.- On Improving the Performance Dependability of Unstructured P2P Systems via Replication.- Processing Ad-Hoc Joins on Mobile Devices.- Preserving Consistency of Dynamic Data in Peer-Based Caching Systems.- Efficient Processing of Distributed Iceberg Semi-joins.- Advanced Database Techniques I.- Definition of Derived Classes in ODMG Databases.- Applying a Fuzzy Approach to Relaxing Cardinality Constraints.- In Support of Mesodata in Database Management Systems.- Distributed and Parallel Data Bases II.- Moderate Concurrency Control in Distributed Object Systems.- Performance Evaluation of a Simple Update Model and a Basic Locking Mechanism for Broadcast Disks.- Adaptive Double Routing Indices: Combining Effectiveness and Efficiency in P2P Systems.- Advanced DB Techniques II.- Efficient Algorithms for Multi-file Caching.- A System for Processing Continuous Queries over Infinite Data Streams.- Outer Join Elimination in the Teradata RDBMS.- Formalising Software Quality Using a Hierarchy of Quality Models.- Bioinformatics.- RgS-Miner: A Biological Data Warehousing, Analyzing and Mining System for Identifying Transcriptional Regulatory Sites in Human Genome.- Effective Filtering for Structural Similarity Search in Protein 3D Structure Databases.- Fast Similarity Search for Protein 3D Structure Databases Using Spatial Topological Patterns.- Ontology-Driven Workflow Management for Biosequence Processing Systems.- XML II.- Towards Integration of XML Document Access and Version Control.- Prefix Path Streaming: A New Clustering Method for Optimal Holistic XML Twig Pattern Matching.- A Self-adaptive Scope Allocation Scheme for Labeling Dynamic XML Documents.- F2/XML: Navigating through Linked XML Documents.- Temporal and Spatial Data Bases I.- Declustering of Trajectories for Indexing of Moving Objects Databases.- Computing the Topological Relationship of Complex Regions.- A Framework for Representing Moving Objects.- Temporal Functional Dependencies with Multiple Granularities: A Logic Based Approach.- Web I.- Device Cooperative Web Browsing and Retrieving Mechanism on Ubiquitous Networks.- A Flexible Security System for Enterprise and e-Government Portals.- Guiding Web Search by Third-party Viewpoints: Browsing Retrieval Results by Referential Contexts in Web.- Temporal and Spatial Data Bases II.- Algebra-to-SQL Query Translation for Spatio-Temporal Databases.- Visualization Process of Temporal Data.- XPQL: A Pictorial Language for Querying Geographic Data.- Web II.- HW-STALKER: A Machine Learning-Based Approach to Transform Hidden Web Data to XML.- Putting Enhanced Hypermedia Personalization into Practice via Web Mining.- Extracting User Behavior by Web Communities Technology on Global Web Logs.