24. VLDB 1998: New York City, USA
Ashish Gupta, Oded Shmueli, Jennifer Widom (Eds.): VLDB'98, Proceedings of 24rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 24-27, 1998, New York City, New York, USA. Morgan Kaufmann 1998 ISBN 1-55860-566-5

Invited Talks
J. D. Tygar: Atomicity versus Anonymity: Distributed Transactions for Electronic Commerce. 1-12
David Elliot Shaw: Technology and the Future of Commerce and Finance (Abstract). 13
Research Sessions
Text and Semistructured Data
Weiyi Meng, King-Lup Liu, Clement T. Yu, Xiaodong Wang, Yuhsi Chang, Naphtali Rishe: Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet. 14-25
Roy Goldman, Narayanan Shivakumar, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Hector Garcia-Molina: Proximity Search in Databases. 26-37
Serge Abiteboul, Jason McHugh, Michael Rys, Vasilis Vassalos, Janet L. Wiener: Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data. 38-49
Performance and Multimedia

Erik Riedel, Garth A. Gibson, Christos Faloutsos: Active Storage for Large-Scale Data Mining and Multimedia. 62-73
Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Banu Özden: Resource Scheduling for Composite Multimedia Objects. 74-85
Join Processing

Sven Helmer, Till Westmann, Guido Moerkotte: Diag-Join: An Opportunistic Join Algorithm for 1:N Relationships. 98-109
Reinhard Braumandl, Jens Claußen, Alfons Kemper: Evaluating Functional Joins Along Nested Reference Sets in Object-Relational and Object-Oriented Databases. 110-122
Heterogeneity and Interoperability

Frédéric Gingras, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan: nD-SQL: A Multi-Dimensional Language for Interoperability and OLAP. 134-145
Fernando de Ferreira Rezende, Klaudia Hergula: The Heterogeneity Problem and Middleware Technology: Experiences with and Performance of Database Gateways. 146-157
Query Processing


Øystein Grøvlen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen: Low-Cost Compensation-Based Query Processing. 182-193
Similarity
Roger Weber, Hans-Jörg Schek, Stephen Blott: A Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study for Similarity-Search Methods in High-Dimensional Spaces. 194-205
Mihael Ankerst, Bernhard Braunmüller, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Thomas Seidl: Improving Adaptable Similarity Query Processing by Using Approximations. 206-217
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Ravishankar Subramanya, Christos Faloutsos: MindReader: Querying Databases Through Multiple Examples. 218-227
Query Optimization
Sumit Ganguly: Design and Analysis of Parametric Query Optimization Algorithms. 228-238
Clara Nippl, Bernhard Mitschang: TOPAZ: a Cost-Based, Rule-Driven, Multi-Phase Parallelizer. 251-262
Query Processing and Optimization
Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Molina, Chandra Chekuri: Filtering with Approximate Predicates. 263-274
H. V. Jagadish, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukrishnan, Viswanath Poosala, Kenneth C. Sevcik, Torsten Suel: Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees. 275-286
Sergio Greco: Binding Propagation in Disjunctive Databases. 287-298
Data Mining and Warehousing
Min Fang, Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Molina, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman: Computing Iceberg Queries Efficiently. 299-310
David Gibson, Jon M. Kleinberg, Prabhakar Raghavan: Clustering Categorical Data: An Approach Based on Dynamical Systems. 311-322
Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Jörg Sander, Michael Wimmer, Xiaowei Xu: Incremental Clustering for Mining in a Data Warehousing Environment. 323-333
High-Dimensional and Temporal Data
Yván J. García, Mario A. Lopez, Scott T. Leutenegger: On Optimal Node Splitting for R-trees. 334-344
Rasa Bliujute, Christian S. Jensen, Simonas Saltenis, Giedrius Slivinskas: R-Tree Based Indexing of Now-Relative Bitemporal Data. 345-356
Beng Chin Ooi, Cheng Hian Goh, Kian-Lee Tan: Fast High-Dimensional Data Search in Incomplete Databases. 357-367
Data Mining 1
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Sameer Mahajan, Abraham Silberschatz: On the Discovery of Interesting Patterns in Association Rules. 368-379
Yasuhiko Morimoto, Takeshi Fukuda, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Takeshi Tokuyama, Kunikazu Yoda: Algorithms for Mining Association Rules for Binary Segmentations of Huge Categorical Databases. 380-391
Edwin M. Knorr, Raymond T. Ng: Algorithms for Mining Distance-Based Outliers in Large Datasets. 392-403
Data Mining 2
Rajeev Rastogi, Kyuseok Shim: PUBLIC: A Decision Tree Classifier that Integrates Building and Pruning. 404-415
Johannes Gehrke, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Venkatesh Ganti: RainForest - A Framework for Fast Decision Tree Construction of Large Datasets. 416-427
Gholamhosein Sheikholeslami, Surojit Chatterjee, Aidong Zhang: WaveCluster: A Multi-Resolution Clustering Approach for Very Large Spatial Databases. 428-439
System Issues 1
M. Tamer Özsu, Kaladhar Voruganti, Ronald C. Unrau: An Asynchronous Avoidance-Based Cache Consistency Algorithm for Client Caching DBMSs. 440-451
Peter Muth, Patrick E. O'Neil, Achim Pick, Gerhard Weikum: Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LHAM Log-Structured History Data Access Method. 452-463
Data Warehousing
Guido Moerkotte: Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing. 476-487
Amit Shukla, Prasad Deshpande, Jeffrey F. Naughton: Materialized View Selection for Multidimensional Datasets. 488-499
System Issues 2
Chendong Zou, Betty Salzberg: Safely and Efficiently Updating References During On-line Reorganization. 512-522
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Sophie Cluet, Claude Delobel: Bulk-Loading Techniques for Object Databases and an Application to Relational Data. 534-545
Spatial Data
Dimitris Papadias, Nikos Mamoulis, Vasilis Delis: Algorithms for Querying by Spatial Structure. 546-557
Geraldo Zimbrao, Jano Moreira de Souza: A Raster Approximation For Processing of Spatial Joins. 558-569
Lars Arge, Octavian Procopiuc, Sridhar Ramaswamy, Torsten Suel, Jeffrey Scott Vitter: Scalable Sweeping-Based Spatial Join. 570-581
Data Mining 3
Flip Korn, Alexandros Labrinidis, Yannis Kotidis, Christos Faloutsos: Ratio Rules: A New Paradigm for Fast, Quantifiable Data Mining. 582-593
Craig Silverstein, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman: Scalable Techniques for Mining Causal Structures. 594-605
Soumen Chakrabarti, Sunita Sarawagi, Byron Dom: Mining Surprising Patterns Using Temporal Description Length. 606-617
Industrial Sessions
Database Vendors Meet Complex Query Languages
Donald R. Slutz: Massive Stochastic Testing of SQL. 618-622
M. Seetha Lakshmi, Shaoyu Zhou: Selectivity Estimation in Extensible Databases - A Neural Network Approach. 623-627
Industrial Database Experience with Large Data Warehouses
Lyman Do, Pamela Drew, Wei Jin, Vish Jumani, David Van Rossum: Issues in Developing Very Large Data Warehouses. 633-636
Warren Sterling: The National Medical Knowledge Bank. 637-640
New Technology Database Vendor Offerings
Shaul Dar, Gadi Entin, Shai Geva, Eran Palmon: DTL's DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language. 645-649
Laurent Vieille: From Data Independence to Knowledge Independence: An on-going Story. 650-654
Peter Fankhauser, Georges Gardarin, M. Lopez, J. Muñoz, Anthony Tomasic: Experiences in Federated Databases: From IRO-DB to MIRO-Web. 655-658
Database Vendor Internals: the Oracle Story
Randall G. Bello, Karl Dias, Alan Downing, James J. Feenan Jr., James L. Finnerty, William D. Norcott, Harry Sun, Andrew Witkowski, Mohamed Ziauddin: Materialized Views in Oracle. 659-664
Roger Bamford, D. Butler, Boris Klots, N. MacNaughton: Architecture of Oracle Parallel Server. 669-670
Database Vendor Kernels
Gopalan Arun, Ashok Joshi: KODA - The Architecture And Interface of a Data Model Independent Kernel. 671-674
Harald Schöning: The ADABAS Buffer Pool Manager. 675-679
Jerry Baulier, Stephen Blott, Henry F. Korth, Abraham Silberschatz: A Database System for Real-Time Event Aggregation in Telecommunication. 680-684
Database Vendor Support for Data Warehouses
Shivakumar Venkataraman, Tian Zhang: Heterogeneous Database Query Optimization in DB2 Universal DataJoiner. 685-689
Felipe Cariño, William O'Connell: Plan-Per-Tuple Optimization Solution - Parallel Execution of Expensive User-Defined Functions. 690-695
Panels

Stephen Blott, Henry F. Korth, Abraham Silberschatz: Information, Communication, and Money: For What Can We Charge and How Can We Meter It? 697
Jack A. Orenstein: Starting (and Sometimes Ending) a Database Company. 698
Industrial Exhibits
Fernando de Ferreira Rezende, Günter Sauter: Bridging Heterogeneity: Research and Practice of Database Middleware Technology. 699
Jerry Baulier, Philip Bohannon, S. Gogate, S. Joshi, C. Gupta, A. Khivesera, Henry F. Korth, Peter McIlroy, J. Miller, P. P. S. Narayan, M. Nemeth, Rajeev Rastogi, Abraham Silberschatz, S. Sudarshan: DataBlitz: A High Performance Main-Memory Storage Manager. 701
Felicity A. W. George: DMS: A Parallel Data Mining Server. 702
K. Bernhard Schiefer, Jim Kleewein, Karen Brannon, Guy M. Lohman, Gene Fuh: IBM's DB2 Universal Database demonstrations at VLDB'98. 703
Chebel Mina: MapInfo SpatialWare: A Spatial Information Server for RDBMS. 704
Objectivity Industrial Exhibit. 705
Amy Pogue: Oracle Industrial Exhibit. 706
Ted Mihalisin: A Single Pass Computing Engine for Interactive Analysis of VLDBs. 707



