Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems: 4th International Workshop, Ngits'99 Zikhron-Yaakov, Israel, July 5-7, 1999 Proceedings (Paperback, 1999)

Invited Talk I.- Some Advances in Data-Mining Techniques.- Web Exploration.- Querying Semantically Tagged Documents on the World-Wide Web.- WWW Exploration Queries.- Strategies for Filtering E-mail Messages Combining Content-Based and Sociological Filtering with User-Stereotypes.- Interactive Query Expansion in a Meta-search Engine.- Database Technology.- On the Optimization of Queries containing Regular Path Expressions.- A Database Array Algebra for Spatio-Temporal Data and Beyond.- Dynamic Relationships and Their Propagation and Concurrency Semantics in Object-Oriented Databases.- Tracking Moving Objects Using Database Technology in DOMINO.- OLOG: A Deductive Object Database Language.- Multiplex: A Formal Model for Multidatabases and Its Implementation.- Temporal Active Rules.- Storage, Meta Information, Ontologies, and Software Engineering.- Cost-Effective Jukebox Storage via Hybrid File-Block Caching.- Ontology-Driven Integration of Scientific Repositories.- Global Version Management for a Federated Turbine Design Environment.- From Object-Process Diagrams to a Natural Object-Process Language.- eColabra An Enterprise Collaboration & Reuse Environment.- Invited Talk II.- Workflow Management in the Internet Age.- Agent and Workflow Management Technology.- A Component-based Workflow System with Dynamic Modifications.- A Temporal Reasoning Approach to Model Workflow Activities.- Dynamic Configuration and Enforcement of Access Control for Mobile Components.- Data Warehousing and Mining.- The MyView Project: A Data Warehousing Approach to Personalized Digital Libraries.- Integrating Data Mining with Relational DBMS: A Tightly-Coupled Approach.- Morphological Disambiguation for Hebrew Search Systems.