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  Matthias Jarke, Michael J. Carey, Klaus R. Dittrich, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Pericles Loucopoulos, Manfred A. Jeusfeld (Eds.): VLDB'97, Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 25-29, 1997, Athens, Greece. Morgan Kaufmann 1997 ISBN 1-55860-470-7

Conference Organizers

Program Commitee Members

Foreword

Preface

Invited Papers

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  Kenneth R. Jacobs: Innovation in Database Management: Computer Science vs. Engineering. 2
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  Philip A. Bernstein, Brian Harry, Paul Sanders, David Shutt, Jason Zander: The Microsoft Repository. 3-12
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  Timos K. Sellis, Nick Roussopoulos, Christos Faloutsos: Multidimensional Access Methods: Trees Have Grown Everywhere. 13-14

Research Track

Data Warehousing

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  H. V. Jagadish, P. P. S. Narayan, S. Seshadri, S. Sudarshan, Rama Kanneganti: Incremental Organization for Data Recording and Warehousing. 16-25
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  Nam Huyn: Multiple-View Self-Maintenance in Data Warehousing Environments. 26-35
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  Christos Faloutsos, H. V. Jagadish, Nikolaos Sidiropoulos: Recovering Information from Summary Data. 36-45

Novel Data Types

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  Arunprasad P. Marathe, Kenneth Salem: A Language for Manipulating Arrays. 46-55
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  Hasan M. Jamil: Implementing Abstract Objects with Inheritance in Datalog^neg. 56-65
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  Praveen Seshadri, Miron Livny, Raghu Ramakrishnan: The Case for Enhanced Abstract Data Types. 66-75

Transactions and Reliability

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  Wee Teck Ng, Peter M. Chen: Integrating Reliable Memory in Databases. 76-85
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  Rajeev Rastogi, S. Seshadri, Philip Bohannon, Dennis W. Leinbaugh, Abraham Silberschatz, S. Sudarshan: Logical and Physical Versioning in Main Memory Databases. 86-95
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  François Llirbat, Eric Simon, Dimitri Tombroff: Using Versions in Update Transactions: Application to Integrity Checking. 96-105

Multidimensional Databases

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  Marc Gyssens, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan: A Foundation for Multi-dimensional Databases. 106-115
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  Kenneth A. Ross, Divesh Srivastava: Fast Computation of Sparse Datacubes. 116-125
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  Dimitri Theodoratos, Timos K. Sellis: Data Warehouse Configuration. 126-135

Database Design

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  Jian Yang, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Qing Li: Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment. 136-145
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  Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek R. Narasayya: An Efficient Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server. 146-155
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  Elena Baralis, Stefano Paraboschi, Ernest Teniente: Materialized Views Selection in a Multidimensional Database. 156-165

Data Mining

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  Yasuhiko Morimoto, Hiromu Ishii, Shinichi Morishita: Efficient Construction of Regression Trees with Range and Region Splitting. 166-175
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  John C. Shafer, Rakesh Agrawal: Parallel Algorithms for High-dimensional Similarity Joins for Data Mining Applications. 176-185
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  Wei Wang, Jiong Yang, Richard R. Muntz: STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach to Spatial Data Mining. 186-195

Web Databases

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  Luis Gravano, Hector Garcia-Molina: Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources. 196-205
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  Paolo Atzeni, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Merialdo: To Weave the Web. 206-215
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  Daniela Florescu, Daphne Koller, Alon Y. Levy: Using Probabilistic Information in Data Integration. 216-225

Tertiary Storage

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  Peter Triantafillou, Thomas Papadakis: On-Demand Data Elevation in Hierarchical Multimedia Storage Servers. 226-235
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  Stavros Christodoulakis, Peter Triantafillou, Fenia Zioga: Principles of Optimally Placing Data in Tertiary Storage Libraries. 236-245
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  Achim Kraiss, Gerhard Weikum: Vertical Data Migration in Large Near-Line Document Archives Based on Markov-Chain Predictions. 246-255

Heterogeneous Databases

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  Vasilis Vassalos, Yannis Papakonstantinou: Describing and Using Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources. 256-265
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  Mary Tork Roth, Peter M. Schwarz: Don't Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources. 266-275
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  Laura M. Haas, Donald Kossmann, Edward L. Wimmers, Jun Yang: Optimizing Queries Across Diverse Data Sources. 276-285

Query Optimization

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  Jens Claußen, Alfons Kemper, Guido Moerkotte, Klaus Peithner: Optimizing Queries with Universal Quantification in Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Databases. 286-295
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  Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E. Ioannidis: Parallel Query Scheduling and Optimization with Time- and Space-Shared Resources. 296-305
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  Arjan Pellenkoft, César A. Galindo-Legaria, Martin L. Kersten: The Complexity of Transformation-Based Join Enumeration. 306-315

Distributed Databases

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  Rune Humborstad, Maitrayi Sabaratnam, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen: 1-Safe Algorithms for Symmetric Site Configurations. 316-325
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  Konstantinos Stathatos, Nick Roussopoulos, John S. Baras: Adaptive Data Broadcast in Hybrid Networks. 326-335
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  André Eickler, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann: Finding Data in the Neighborhood. 336-345

Database Algorithms

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  Khaled Alsabti, Sanjay Ranka, Vineet Singh: A One-Pass Algorithm for Accurately Estimating Quantiles for Disk-Resident Data. 346-355
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  Marcin Skubiszewski, Patrick Valduriez: Concurrent Garbage Collection in O2. 356-365
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  Srinivas Ashwin, Prasan Roy, S. Seshadri, Abraham Silberschatz, S. Sudarshan: Garbage Collection in Object Oriented Databases Using Transactional Cyclic Reference Counting. 366-375

Sorts and Joins

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  Weiye Zhang, Per-Åke Larson: Dynamic Memory Adjustment for External Mergesort. 376-385
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  Sven Helmer, Guido Moerkotte: Evaluation of Main Memory Join Algorithms for Joins with Set Comparison Join Predicates. 386-395
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  Yun-Wu Huang, Ning Jing, Elke A. Rundensteiner: Spatial Joins Using R-trees: Breadth-First Traversal with Global Optimizations. 396-405

Spatial Data Types

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  Jochen Van den Bercken, Bernhard Seeger, Peter Widmayer: A Generic Approach to Bulk Loading Multidimensional Index Structures. 406-415
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  Jong-Hak Lee, Young-Koo Lee, Kyu-Young Whang, Il-Yeol Song: A Region Splitting Strategy for Physical Database Design of Multidimensional File Organizations. 416-425
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  Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella, Pavel Zezula: M-tree: An Efficient Access Method for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces. 426-435

Querying and Browsing

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  Roy Goldman, Jennifer Widom: DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases. 436-445
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  Soumen Chakrabarti, Byron Dom, Rakesh Agrawal, Prabhakar Raghavan: Using Taxonomy, Discriminants, and Signatures for Navigating in Text Databases. 446-455
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  Manoj Chavda, Peter T. Wood: Towards an ODMG-Compliant Visual Object Query Language. 456-465

Query Processing

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  Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Viswanath Poosala: Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms. 466-475
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  Damianos Chatziantoniou, Kenneth A. Ross: Groupwise Processing of Relational Queries. 476-485
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  Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis: Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute Value Independence Assumption. 486-495

Multimedia Databases

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  Edward Y. Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina: Effective Memory Use in a Media Server. 496-505
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  Thomas Seidl, Hans-Peter Kriegel: Efficient User-Adaptable Similarity Search in Large Multimedia Databases. 506-515
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  Minos N. Garofalakis, Banu Özden, Abraham Silberschatz: Resource Scheduling in Enhanced Pay-Per-View Continuous Media Databases. 516-525

Industry / Commercial Track

System Experiences

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  Stefan Deßloch, Nelson Mendonça Mattos: Integrating SQL Databases with Content-Specific Search Engines. 528-537
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  Wen-Syan Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Kyoji Hirata, Yoshinori Hara: Facilitating Multimedia Database Exploration through Visual Interfaces and Perpetual Query Reformulations. 538-547
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  Peter Baumann, Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbert Widmann: Geo/Environmental and Medical Data Management in the RasDaMan System. 548-552

Application Challenges

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  Steven D. Whitehead, Himanshu Sinha, Michael Murphy: GTE SuperPages: Using IR Techniques for Searching Complex Objects. 553-557
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  Eric Hughes, Roman Ginis, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Peter C. Krupp, John A. Maurer: Data Manager for Evolvable Real-time Command and Control Systems. 558-561
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  Jörg-Uwe Kietz, Ulrich Reimer, Martin Staudt: Mining Insurance Data at Swiss Life. 562-566

Research Visions

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  Peter C. Lockemann, Ulrike Kölsch, Arne Koschel, Ralf Kramer, Ralf Nikolai, Mechtild Wallrath, Hans-Dirk Walter: The Network as a Global Database: Challenges of Interoperability, Proactivity, Interactiveness, Legacy. 567-574
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  Gustavo Alonso, Claus Hagen, Hans-Jörg Schek, Markus Tresch: Distributed Processing over Stand-alone Systems and Applications. 575-579
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  David M. Malon, Edward N. May: Critical Database Technologies for High Energy Physics. 580-584

Industry Solutions

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  Suresh Kumar, Eng-Kee Kwang, Divyakant Agrawal: Caprera: An Activity Framework for Transaction Processing on Wide-Area Networks. 585-589
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  William Bridge, Ashok Joshi, M. Keihl, Tirthankar Lahiri, Juan Loaiza, N. MacNaughton: The Oracle Universal Server Buffer. 590-594
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  D. Wildfogel, Ramana Yerneni: Efficient Testing of High Performance Transaction Processing Systems. 595-598