Database and Expert Systems Applications: 19th International Conference, Dexa 2008, Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008, Proceedings (Paperback, 2008)

Invited Talk.- Towards Engineering Purposeful Systems: A Requirements Engineering Perspective.- Session 1.- Hiding Frequent Patterns under Multiple Sensitive Thresholds.- BSGI: An Effective Algorithm towards Stronger l-Diversity.- The Truncated Tornado in TMBB: A Spatiotemporal Uncertainty Model for Moving Objects.- Reordering of Location Identifiers for Indexing an RFID Tag Object Database.- A Free Terrain Model for Trajectory K-Anonymity.- HRG: A Graph Structure for Fast Similarity Search in Metric Spaces.- Session 2A: Semantic Web and Ontologies.- Word Sense Disambiguation as the Primary Step of Ontology Integration.- Enriching Ontology for Deep Web Search.- POEM: An Ontology Manager Based on Existence Constraints.- Session 2B: Query Processing.- Extending Inconsistency-Tolerant Integrity Checking by Semantic Query Optimization.- On the Evaluation of Large and Sparse Graph Reachability Queries.- SQL TVF Controlling Forms - Express Structured Parallel Data Intensive Computing.- A Decidable Fuzzy Description Logic F-ALC(G).- Session 3: Web and Information Retrieval.- Ranking Entities Using Comparative Relations.- Query Recommendation Using Large-Scale Web Access Logs and Web Page Archive.- Description Logic to Model a Domain Specific Information Retrieval System.- Extending the Edit Distance Using Frequencies of Common Characters.- Session 4: Mobile Data and Information.- Tracking Moving Objects in Anonymized Trajectories.- REALM: Replication of Data for a Logical Group Based MANET Database.- A Cache Management Method for the Mobile Music Delivery System: JAMS.- EcoRare: An Economic Incentive Scheme for Efficient Rare Data Accessibility in Mobile-P2P Networks.- Session 5: Data and Information Streams.- Identifying Similar Subsequences in Data Streams.- A Tree-Based Approach for Event Prediction Using Episode Rules over Event Streams.- Effective Skyline Cardinality Estimation on Data Streams.- Session 6: Data Mining Algorithms.- Detecting Current Outliers: Continuous Outlier Detection over Time-Series Data Streams.- Component Selection to Optimize Distance Function Learning in Complex Scientific Data Sets.- Emerging Pattern Based Classification in Relational Data Mining.- Session 7: Multimedia Databases.- Rosso Tiziano: A System for User-Centered Exploration and Discovery in Large Image Information Bases.- NM-Tree: Flexible Approximate Similarity Search in Metric and Non-metric Spaces.- Efficient Processing of Nearest Neighbor Queries in Parallel Multimedia Databases.- Session 8: Data Mining Systems, Data Warehousing, OLAP.- OLAP for Trajectories.- A Probabilistic Approach for Computing Approximate Iceberg Cubes.- Noise Control Boundary Image Matching Using Time-Series Moving Average Transform.- Approximate Range-Sum Queries over Data Cubes Using Cosine Transform.- Session 9: Temporal, Spatial, and High Dimensional Databases II.- Querying Multigranular Spatio-temporal Objects.- Space-Partitioning-Based Bulk-Loading for the NSP-Tree in Non-ordered Discrete Data Spaces.- Efficient Updates for Continuous Skyline Computations.- Session 10: Data and Information Semantics.- Semantic Decision Tables: Self-organizing and Reorganizable Decision Tables.- Translating SQL Applications to the Semantic Web.- An Agent Framework Based on Signal Concepts for Highlighting the Image Semantic Content.- Session 11: XML Databases I.- Supporting Proscriptive Metadata in an XML DBMS.- XPath Rewriting Using Multiple Views.- Superimposed Code-Based Indexing Method for Extracting MCTs from XML Documents.- Fast Matching of Twig Patterns.- Session 12: XML Databases II.- XML Filtering Using Dynamic Hierarchical Clustering of User Profiles.- Person Retrieval on XML Documents by Coreference Analysis Utilizing Structural Features.- HFilter: Hybrid Finite Automaton Based Stream Filtering for Deep and Recursive XML Data.- Session 13: Query Processing and Optimization.- Read-Optimized, Cache-Conscious, Page Layouts for Temporal Relational Data.- Exploiting I