Advances in Information Systems: 4th International Conference, ADVIS 2006, Izmir, Turkey, October, 2006 (Paperback)

Invited Talks.- Processing Preference Queries in Standard Database Systems.- Turkish Information Retrieval: Past Changes Future.- From On-Campus Project Organised Problem Based Learning to Facilitated Work Based Learning in Industry.- Innovative Information and Knowledge Infrastructures - How Do I Find What I Need?.- Information Representation and Exchange.- XMask: An Enabled XML Management System.- Validation of XML Documents: From UML Models to XML Schemas and XSLT Stylesheets.- A Novel Clustering-Based Approach to Schema Matching.- BFPkNN: An Efficient k-Nearest-Neighbor Search Algorithm for Historical Moving Object Trajectories.- Three-Level Object-Oriented Database Architecture Based on Virtual Updateable Views.- AEC Algorithm: A Heuristic Approach to Calculating Density-Based Clustering Eps Parameter.- Databases and Datawarehouses.- GeoCube, a Multidimensional Model and Navigation Operators Handling Complex Measures: Application in Spatial OLAP.- Hybrid Index for Spatio-temporal OLAP Operations.- Managing Evolution of Data Warehouses by Means of Nested Transactions.- Optimization of Queries Invoking Views by Query Tail Absorption.- Checking Violation Tolerance of Approaches to Database Integrity.- A Metadata Repository Model to Integrate Heterogeneous Databases of Hardware Dependent Legacy Systems.- Semantic Web and Ontologies.- Semantic Information Retrieval on the Web.- Contextual Ontologies.- Matchmaking of Semantic Web Services Using Semantic-Distance Information.- Ontology-Based Information Systems Development: The Problem of Automation of Information Processing Rules.- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.- Data Mining with Parallel Support Vector Machines for Classification.- Association-Rules Mining Based Broadcasting Approach for XML Data.- CSDTM A Cost Sensitive Decision Tree Based Method.- Comparative Analysis of Classification Methods for Protein Interaction Verification System.- Distributed Architecture for Association Rule Mining.- Information Retrieval and Knowledge Representation.- Automatic Lung Nodule Detection Using Template Matching.- MIGP: Medical Image Grid Platform Based on HL7 Grid Middleware.- Structural and Event Based Multimodal Video Data Modeling.- Chat Mining for Gender Prediction.- Integrated Expert Management Knowledge on OSI Network Management Objects.- Knowledge Integration in Information Systems Education Through an (Inter)active Platform of Analysis and Modelling Case Studies.- Knowledge Management in Different Software Development Approaches.- Architecture of Information Systems.- PMAP: Framework to Predicting Method Access Patterns for Materialized Methods.- An Architecture Design Process Using a Supportable Meta-architecture and Roundtrip Engineering.- Knowledge-Based Enterprise Modelling Framework.- A Network-Based Indexing Method for Trajectories of Moving Objects.- Adaptive Enumeration Strategies and Metabacktracks for Constraint Solving.- FORBAC: A Flexible Organisation and Role-Based Access Control Model for Secure Information Systems.- Distributed and Wireless Information Systems.- An Anycasting Protocol for Anonymous Access to a Group of Contents-Equivalent Servers in a Distributed System.- A Wireless Broadcast Generation Scheme Considering Data Access Frequencies.- Spreading Activation Model for Connectivity Based Clustering.- Personalized Fair Reputation Based Resource Allocation in Grid.