Database and Expert Systems Applications: 14th International Conference, Dexa 2003, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-5, 2003, Proceedings (Paperback, 2003)

'Invited Talk.- Policy Based Enterprise (Active) Information Integration.- XML I.- SOFT - Generating Highly Flexible Object Code from XML Specifications.- Querying Semistructured Data Efficiently.- On the Optimality of Holistic Algorithms for Twig Queries.- AUSMS: An Environment for Frequent Sub-structures Extraction in a Semi-structured Object Collection.- Data Modeling.- Defining Web Schema Transformers by Example.- A Conceptual Framework for Spatiotemporal Data Modeling.- Moa and the Multi-model Architecture: A New Perspective on NF2.- Entity Connectivity vs. Hierarchical Levelling as a Basis for Data Model Clustering: An Experimental Analysis.- XML II.- An XML-Enabled Association Rule Framework.- Validation of XML Document Updates Based on XML Schema in XML Databases.- XML Schemata Inference and Evolution.- Spatial Database Systems I.- Bulk Loading the MKL-Tree.- Bulk Insertion for R-Tree by Seeded Clustering.- Optimizing Both Cache and Disk Performance of R-Trees.- XML III.- XML Views: Part 1.- Partition Based Path Join Algorithms for XML Data.- Representing and Querying Summarized XML Data.- Storing and Querying XML Data in the Nested Relational Sequence Database System.- Spatial Database Systems II.- Capturing Uncertainty in Spatial Queries over Imprecise Data.- Effective Load-Balancing via Migration and Replication in Spatial Grids.- Parallel Query Support for Multidimensional Data: Intra-object Parallelism.- Replicated Parallel I/O without Additional Scheduling Costs.- XML IV.- XML Restructuring and Integration for Tabular Data.- Repairing Inconsistent Merged XML Data.- XML and Knowledge Technologies for Semantic-Based Indexing of Paper Documents.- Efficient Re-construction of Document Versions Based on Adaptive Forward and Backward Change Deltas.- Mobile Computing I.- Neighborhood-Consistent Transaction Management for Pervasive Computing Environments.- On Mining Group Patterns of Mobile Users.- Location Query Based on Moving Behaviors.- Dynamic Splitting Policies of the Adaptive 3DR-Tree for Indexing Continuously Moving Objects.- Transactions.- Comparing the Overhead Requirements of Database Transaction Models.- Concurrent and Real-Time Update of Access Control Policies.- Transactional Agent Model for Distributed Object Systems.- Mobile Computing II.- Incremental Query Answering Using a Multi-layered Database Model in a Mobile Computing Environment.- Environmental Noise Classification for Context-Aware Applications.- An Access Time Cost Model for Spatial Range Queries on Broadcast Geographical Data over Air.- Bioinformatics.- Context-Aware Data Mining Framework for Wireless Medical Application.- Data Management in Metaboloinformatics: Issues and Challenges.- Mining the Risk Types of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) by AdaCost.- Protein Structural Information Management Based on Spatial Concepts and Active Trigger Rules.- Mobile Computing III.- Asomnia: AService-Oriented Middleware for Ambient Information Access.- An Efficient Tree-Structure Index Allocation Method over Multiple Broadcast Channels in Mobile Environments.- DSTTMOD: A Future Trajectory Based Moving Objects Database.- Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Routing with Proximity.- Information Retrieval I.- g-binary: A New Non-parameterized Code for Improved Inverted File Compression.- Activation on the Move: Querying Tourism Information via Spreading Activation.- Similarity Join in Metric Spaces Using eD-Index.- KeyQuery - A Front End for the Automatic Translation of Keywords into Structured Queries.- Information Retrieval II.- Supporting KDD Applications by the k-Nearest Neighbor Join.- Approximate Query Processing for a Content-Based Image Retrieval Method.- Query Algebra Operations for Interval Probabilities.- Information Retrieval III.- Tree Structure Based Parallel Frequent Pattern Mining on PC Cluster.- WebObjects: A New Approach for Querying the Web.- Finding Neighbor Comm