Advances in Databases and Information Systems

InhaltsangabeRecent progress in data integration - A tutorial.- Managing multimedia information in a database environment - A tutorial.- Association rules. and what's next? - Towards second generation data mining systems.- Workflow management in the internet age.- Untyped queries, untyped reflective machines and conditional quantifiers.- Containment of conjunctive queries with built-in predicates with variables and constants over any ordered domain.- Using queries with multi-directional functions for numerical database applications.- Multiple range query optimization in spatial databases.- Optimizing command logs by exploiting semantic knowledge.- A distributed algorithm for global query optimization in multidatabase systems.- Transaction management in databases supporting collaborative applications.- Object-oriented design of a flexible workflow management system.- Extending transaction closures by n-ary termination dependencies.- Distributed information systems.- Integrated web - Database applications for electronic business.- Term weighting in query-based document clustering.- Discovery of object-oriented schema and schema conflicts.- On the ordering of rewrite rules.- Towards data and object modelling.- Propagation of structural modifications to an integrated schema.- Integration of schemas containing data versions and time components.- Deriving relationships between integrity constraints for schema comparison.- A database interface integrating a query language for versions.- nP-Tree: Region partitioning and indexing for efficient path planning.- Replication in mirrored disk systems.- Clustering techniques for minimizing object access time.- Designing persistence for real-time distributed object systems.- Partial replication of object-oriented databases.- Optimizing knowledge discovery over the WWW.- Data mining query language for object-oriented database.- Itemset materializing for fast mining of association rules.- Schema derivation for WWW information sources and their integration with databases in Bioinformatics.- Component-based information systems development tool supporting the SYNTHESIS design method.- Translating relational queries to object-oriented queries according to ODMG-93.- A flexible framework for a correct database design.- Human resources information systems improvement: Involving financial systems and other sources data.- Physical structure design for relational databases.- Modeling of census data in a multidimensional environment.