12. DEXA 2001: Munich, Germany

Invited Talk

• Rudolf Bayer:
  XML Databases: Modeling and Multidimensional Indexing. 1
  

Advanced Databases I

• Mong-Li Lee, Sin Yeung Lee, Tok Wang Ling:
  Updatability in Federated Database Systems. 2-11
  
• Mong-Li Lee, Sin Yeung Lee, Tok Wang Ling, Gillian Dobbie, Leonid A. Kalinichenko:
  Designing Semistructured Databases: A Conceptual Approach. 12-21
  
• Sergio Flesca, Filippo Furfaro, Elio Masciari:
  Meaningful Change Detection on the Web. 22-31
  
• Mohamed Dahchour:
  Definition and Application of Metaclasses. 32-41
  

Information Retrieval Aspects I

• Aluízio Haendchen Filho, Hércules Antonio do Prado, Paulo Martins Engel, Arndt von Staa:
  XSearch : A Neural Network Based Tool for Components Search in a Distributed Object Environment. 42-51
  
• Churn-Jung Liau, Y. Y. Yao:
  Information Retrieval by Possibilistic Reasoning. 52-61
  
• Dolores María Llidó, Rafael Berlanga Llavori, María José Aramburu Cabo:
  Extracting Temporal References to Assign Document Event-Time Periods. 62-71
  
• Rafael Berlanga Llavori, Juan Manuel Pérez, María José Aramburu Cabo, Dolores María Llidó:
  Techniques and Tools for the Temporal Analysis of Retrieved Information. 72-81
  

Digital Libraries

• Francesca Cesarini, Marco Lastri, Simone Marinai, Giovanni Soda:
  Page Classification for Meta-data Extraction from Digital Collections. 82-91
  
• Catherine Roussey, Sylvie Calabretto, Jean-Marie Pinon:
  A New Conceptual Graph Formalism Adapted for Multilingual Information Retrieval Purposes. 92-101
  
• Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Aurelio López-López, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates:
  Flexible Comparison of Conceptual GraphsWork done under partial support of CONACyT, CGEPI-IPN, and SNI, Mexico. 102-111
  
• Su-Shing Chen, Othoniel Rodriguez, Chee-Yoong Choo, Yi Shang, Hongchi Shi:
  Personalizing Digital Libraries for Learners. 112-121
  

User Interfaces

• Andrés Montoyo, Manuel Palomar, German Rigau:
  Interface for WordNet Enrichment with Classification Systems. 122-130
  
• Sean W. M. Siqueira, Diva de Souza e Silva, Elvira Maria Antunes Uchôa, Maria Helena Lima Baptista Braz, Rubens N. Melo:
  An Architecture for Database Marketing Systems. 131-144
  
• Xiaofeng Meng, Shan Wang:
  NChiql: The Chinese Natural Language Interface to Databases. 145-154
  

Advanced Databases II

• Patrick Etcheverry, Philippe Lopistéguy, Pantxika Dagorret:
  Pattern-Based Guidelines for Coordination Engineering. 155-164
  
• Anne Frenkel, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Gert B. Eijkel, Louis O. Hertzberger:
  Information Management for Material Science Applications in a Virtual Laboratory. 165-174
  
• Mohamed T. Ibrahim, Alexander M. Fedorec, Keith Rennolls:
  TREAT: A Reverse Engineering Method and Tool for Environmental Databases. 175-185
  

Information Retrieval Aspects II

• Adriano Di Pasquale, Enrico Nardelli:
  A Very Efficient Order Preserving Scalable Distributed Data Structure. 186-199
  
• Michael Dittenbach, Andreas Rauber, Dieter Merkl:
  Business, Culture, Politics, and Sports - How to Find Your Way through a Bulk of News? On Content-Based Hierarchical Structuring and Organization of Large Document Archives. 200-210
  
• Su-Jeong Ko, Jung-Hyun Lee:
  Feature Selection Using Association Word Mining for Classification. 211-220
  

Multimedia Databases

• Jia-Ling Koh, William D. C. Yu:
  Efficient Feature Mining in Music Objects. 221-231
  
• Ji Zhang, Wynne Hsu, Mong-Li Lee:
  An Information-Driven Framework for Image Mining. 232-242
  
• Takako Hashimoto, Yukari Shirota, Atsushi Iizawa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa:
  A Rule-Based Scheme to Make Personal Digests from Video Program Meta Data. 243-253
  

Workflow Aspects

• Jeong-Joon Yoo, Young-Ho Suh, Dong-Ik Lee, Seung-Woog Jung, Choul-Soo Jang, Joong-Bae Kim:
  Casting Mobile Agents to Workflow Systems: On Performance and Scalability Issues. 254-263
  
• Daniela Grigori, François Charoy, Claude Godart:
  Anticipation to Enhance Flexibility of Workflow Execution. 264-273
  
• Minxin Shen, Duen-Ren Liu:
  Coordinating Interorganizational Workflows Based on Process-Views. 274-283
  

Advanced Databases III

• Luo Li, Birgitta König-Ries, Niki Pissinou, Kia Makki:
  Strategies for Semantic Caching. 284-298
  
• Keiji Izaki, Katsuya Tanaka, Makoto Takizawa:
  Information Flow Control among Objects in Role-Based Access Control Model. 299-308
  
• Mathieu Roger, Ana Simonet, Michel Simonet:
  Object Space Partitioning in a DL-Like Database and Knowledge Base Management System. 309-318
  
• Luiz Fernando Bessa Seibel, Sérgio Lifschitz:
  A Genome Databases Framework. 319-329
  
• Angelo Brayner:
  Lock Downgrading: An Approach to Increase Inter-transaction Parallelism in Advanced Database Applications. 330-339
  

Information Retrieval Aspects III

• Tran Khanh Dang, Josef Küng, Roland Wagner:
  The SH-tree: A Super Hybrid Index Structure for Multidimensional Data. 340-349
  
• Youngchoon Park, PanKoo Kim, Forouzan Golshani, Sethuraman Panchanathan:
  Concept-Based Visual Information Management with Large Lexical Corpus. 350-359
  
• Wesley T. Chuang, Douglas Stott Parker Jr.:
  Pyramidal Digest: An Efficient Model for Abstracting Text Databases. 360-369
  
• Shuigeng Zhou, Yunfa Hu, Jiangtao Hu:
  A Novel Full-Text Indexing Model for Chinese Text Retrieval. 370-379
  

Active Databases

• Chen Qun, Andrew Lim, Wee-Chong Oon:
  Page Access Sequencing in Join Processing with Limited Buffer Space. 380-389
  
• Ahmad Ghazal, Ramesh Bhashyam:
  Dynamic Constraints Derivation and Maintenance in the Teradata RDBMS. 390-399
  
• Alain Couchot:
  Improving Termination Analysis of Active Rules with Composite Events. 400-409
  
• Gerti Kappel, Gerhard Kramler, Werner Retschitzegger:
  TriGS Debugger - A Tool for Debugging Active Database Behavior. 410-421
  
• Antoni Ligeza, Igor Wojnicki, Grzegorz J. Nalepa:
  Tab-Trees: A CASE Tool for the Design of Extended Tabular Systems. 422-431
  

Spatial Databases

• Roy Ladner, Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Ruth Wilson, John Breckenridge, Frank P. McCreedy, Kevin Shaw:
  A Framework for Databasing 3D Synthetic Environment Data. 432-441
  
• Petr Miksovský, Zdenek Kouba:
  GOLAP - Geographical Online Analytical Processing. 442-449
  
• Hak-Cheol Kim, Ki-Joune Li:
  Declustering Spatial Objects by Clustering for Parallel Disks. 450-459
  
• Yoh Shiraishi, Yuichiro Anzai:
  A Retrieval Method for Real-Time Spatial Data Browsing. 460-469
  
• Andreas Dehmel:
  Designing a Compression Engine for Multidimensional Raster Data. 470-480
  

Advanced Databases IV

• Mengchi Liu, Shilpesh Katragadda:
  DrawCAD: Using Deductive Object-Relational Databases in CAD. 481-490
  
• Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Aurelio López-López:
  A Statistical Approach to the Discovery of Ephemeral Associations among News Topics. 491-500
  
• Steffen Jurk, Mira Balaban:
  Improving Integrity Constraint Enforcement by Extended Rules and Dependency Graphs. 501-516
  
• Roman Mázl, Miroslav Kulich, Libor Preucil:
  Statistical and Feature-Based Methods for Mobile Robot Position Localization. 517-526
  

Distributed Databases

• Eng Koon Sze, Tok Wang Ling:
  Efficient View Maintenance Using Version Numbers. 527-536
  
• Jin Hyun Son, Myoung-Ho Kim:
  alpha-Partitioning Algorithm: Vertical Partitioning Based on the Fuzzy Graph. 537-546
  
• I. N. Wang, N. J. Fiddian, W. A. Gray:
  Using Market Mechanisms to Control Agent Allocation in Global Information Systems. 547-556
  

Web Aspects I

• Haifeng Liu, Wee Keong Ng, Ee-Peng Lim:
  Query Integration for Refreshing Web Views. 557-566
  
• Wen-Chi Hou, Suli Wang:
  Size-Adjusted Sliding Window LFU - A New Web Caching Scheme. 567-576
  
• Yi Li, Wee Keong Ng, Ee-Peng Lim:
  ViDE: A Visual Data Extraction Environment for the Web. 577-586
  
• Qiang Ma, Shinya Miyazaki, Katsumi Tanaka:
  WebSCAN: Discovering and Notifying Important Changes of Web Sites. 587-598
  

Knowledge Aspects I

• John K. Debenham:
  Knowledge Base Maintenance through Knowledge Representation. 599-608
  
• Claudia Diamantini, Maurizio Panti:
  ANKON: A Multi-agent System for Information Gathering. 609-620
  
• Bruno Voisin:
  Mining Astronomical Data. 621-631
  

XML

• Norihide Shinagawa, Kouichi Kuragaki, Hiroyuki Kitagawa:
  Integration of WWW Applications Based on Extensible XML Query and Processing Languages. 632-645
  
• Manolis Gergatsoulis, Yannis Stavrakas, Dimitris Karteris:
  Incorporating Dimensions in XML and DTD. 646-656
  
• Wenfei Fan, Peter Schwenzer, Kun Wu:
  Keys with Upward Wildcards for XML. 657-667
  

Datawarehouses

• Alberto Abelló, José Samos, Fèlix Saltor:
  A Framework for the Classification and Description of Multidimensional Data Models. 668-677
  
• Zhong Wei Luo, Tok Wang Ling, Chuan-Heng Ang, Sin Yeung Lee, Bin Cui:
  Range Top/Bottom k Queries in OLAP Sparse Data Cubes. 678-687
  
• Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wee Keong Ng, Sanjay Kumar Madria:
  On Formulation of Disjunctive Coupling Queries in WHOWEDA. 688-698
  

Web Aspects II

• Ismail Sengör Altingövde, Selma Ayse Özel, Özgür Ulusoy, Gultekin Özsoyoglu, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu:
  Topic-Centric Querying of Web Information Resources. 699-711
  
• Akiyo Nadamoto, Hiroyuki Kondo, Katsumi Tanaka:
  WebCarousel: Automatic Presentation and Semantic Restructuring of Web Search Result for Mobile Environments. 712-722
  
• Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wee Keong Ng, Sanjay Kumar Madria:
  Imposing Disjunctive Constraints on Inter-document Structure. 723-733
  

Knowledge Aspects II

• Domenico Rosaci, Giorgio Terracina, Domenico Ursino:
  A Semi-automatic Technique for Constructing a Global Representation of Information Sources Having Different Formats and Structure. 734-743
  
• Thomas Luckeneder, Knud Steiner, Wolfram Wöß:
  Integration of Topic Maps and Databases: Towards Efficient Knowledge Representation and Directory Services. 744-753
  

Hypermedia

• Haruhiko Hiramatsu, Kazutoshi Sumiya, Kuniaki Uehara:
  A Spatial Hypermedia Framework for Position-Aware Information Delivery Systems. 754-763
  
• Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo, Susana Montero:
  Ariadne, a Development Method for Hypermedia. 764-774
  

Index Aspects

• Jukka Teuhola:
  A General Approach to Compression of Hierarchical Indexes. 775-784
  
• Chen Qun, Andrew Lim, Yi Zhu:
  Index and Data Allocation in Mobile Broadcast. 785-794
  

Object-Oriented Databases I

• Renguo Xiaou, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Chang, Ling Feng:
  Modeling and Transformation of Object-Oriented Conceptual Models into XML Schema. 795-804
  
• Mirella Moura Moro, Silvia Maria Saggiorato, Nina Edelweiss, Clesio Saraiva dos Santos:
  Adding Time to an Object-Oriented Versions Model. 805-814
  
• Zhen He, Alonso Marquez:
  Cache Conscious Clustering C3. 815-825
  
• Manuel Torres, José Samos:
  Closed External Schemas in Object-Oriented Databases. 826-835
  

Transaction Aspects I

• Juha Puustjärvi, Harri Laine:
  Supporting Cooperative Inter-organizational Business Transactions. 836-845
  
• Zhiming Ding, Xiaofeng Meng, Shan Wang:
  O2PC-MT: A Novel Optimistic Two-Phase Commit Protocol for Mobile Transactions. 846-856
  
• Katsuya Tanaka, Makoto Takizawa:
  Quorum-Based Locking Protocol in Nested Invocations of Methods. 857-866
  

Query Aspects I

• Jacek Plodzien, Kazimierz Subieta:
  Applying Low-Level Query Optimization Techniques by Rewriting. 867-876
  
• Sang Ho Lee, Jin Seon Hong, Larry Kerschberg:
  A Popularity-Driven Caching Scheme for Meta-search Engines: An Empirical Study. 877-886
  
• Jesús Vilares, Manuel Vilares Ferro, Miguel A. Alonso:
  Towards the Development of Heuristics for Automatic Query Expansion. 887-896
  
• Jerome Robinson, Barry G. T. Lowden, Mohammed Al Haddad:
  Utilising Multiple Computers in Database Query Processing and Descriptor Rule Management. 897-908
  

Object-Oriented Databases II

• Coral Calero, Houari A. Sahraoui, Mario Piattini, Hakim Lounis:
  Estimating Object-Relational Database Understandability Using Structural Metrics. 909-922
  
• Waldemar Wieczerzycki:
  CDM - Collaborative Data Model for Databases Supporting Groupware Applications. 923-932
  

Transaction Aspects II

• Jong Sul Lee, Jae Ryong Shin, Jae Soo Yoo:
  An Efficient Distributed Concurrency Control Algorithm Using Two Phase Priority. 933-942
  
• Rashmi Srinivasa, Craig Williams, Paul F. Reynolds Jr.:
  A New Look at Timestamp Ordering Concurrency Control. 943-952
  

Query Aspects II

• Yangjun Chen, Gerald Huck:
  On the Evaluation of Path-Oriented Queries in Document Databases. 953-962
  
• Junhu Wang, Rodney W. Topor, Michael J. Maher:
  Reasoning with Disjunctive Constrained Tuple-Generating Dependencies. 963-973
  
• Jae-Heon Cheong, Sang-goo Lee, Jonghoon Chun:
  A Method for Processing Boolean Queries Using a Result Cache. 974-983
  

DEXA Position Paper

• Mukesh K. Mohania, Yahiko Kambayashi, A. Min Tjoa, Roland Wagner, Ladjel Bellatreche:
  Trends in Database Research. 984-988