Web-Age Information Management: First International Conference, Waim 2000 Shanghai, China, June 21-23, 2000 Proceedings (Paperback, 2000)

Invited Talks.- Visual Data Mining for Business Intelligence Applications.- Parallel Data Mining on Large Scale PC Cluster.- XML: DTD and Queries.- XML Query Languages in Practice: An Evaluation.- A Two-Level Method for Clustering DTDs1.- XML Queries via SQL.- Inferring DTD to Facilitate User-Oriented XML Documents Query.- O-O: Modeling and Implementation.- An Object Oriented Multidimensional Data Model for OLAP.- Applying Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Techniques to the Design of Multidimensional Databases and OLAP Applications.- An Optimal Locking Scheme in Object-Oriented Database Systems.- Association Rules: Mining and Application.- An Efficient Distributed Algorithm for Computing Association Rules.- Mining Association Rules with Negative Items Using Interest Measure.- Probabilistic Approach to Association Rules in Incomplete Databases.- Discovering Sequential Patterns from Non-uniform Databases.- An Effective Approach to Mining Exception Class Association Rules1.- Enterprise Information Systems and E-Commerce.- Integrated Data Management and Enterprise Models.- A Virtual Private Network for Virtual Enterprise Information Systems.- Adaptive Online Retail Web Site Based on Hidden Markov Model.- A Protocol for Untraceable Electronic Cash.- The Web: Document Management and Retrieval.- Materializing Web Data for OLAP and DSS.- Hierarchically Classifying Chinese Web Documents without Dictionary Support and Segmentation Procedure1.- Web Clustering and Association Rule Discovery for Web Broadcast.- A Non-Euclidean Model for Web Retrieval.- Advanced Replacement Policies for WWW Caching.- Spatial and Temporal Databases.- Extending Rectangle Join Algorithms for Rectilinear Polygons.- HMT: Modeling Temporal Aspects in Hypermedia Applications.- Hana Tree: A Dynamic and Robust Access Method for Spatial Data Handling.- MADGIS: A New Architecture for Distributed GIS under Internet Environment.- Data Warehousing.- Global View Maintenance by Using Inference Relationship among Views.- Maintaining Materialized Views for Data Warehouses with Multiple Remote Sources.- Using Loglinear Models to Compress Datacubes.- Materialized View Selection in a Data Warehouse.- Information Retrieval.- ExSight: Highly Accurate Object Based Image Retrieval System Enhanced by Redundant Object Extraction.- Applying Anaphora Resolution to Question Answering and Information Retrieval Systems.- MB+tree: A Dynamically Updatable Metric Index for Similarity Search.- An Information Store and Retrieval Facility on CORBA.- Retrieving Content Directly from Antique Book Images.- Semi-Structured Data.- Schema Based Data Storage and Query Optimization for Semi-structured Data1.- Automatic Wrapper Generation for Web Search Engines.- Multi-level Schema Extraction for Heterogeneous Semi-structured Data.- Agent, Rough Set and Learning.- Rough Set Based WebCT Learning.- MultiAgent Systems for Coalition Support.- A Fast Globally Supervised Learning Algorithm for Gaussian Mixture Models.- Optimizing Classifiers by Genetic Algorithm.