Volume 21, Number 1, January 2009
Xindong Wu: EIC Editorial: Introducing the New Editor-in-Chief and Four New Associate Editors. 1-3
Beng Chin Ooi: New EIC Editorial. 4-5

Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Jian Pei, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Ke Wang: Online Skyline Analysis with Dynamic Preferences on Nominal Attributes. 35-49

Dongsheng Li, Jiannong Cao, Xicheng Lu, Kaixian Chen: Efficient Range Query Processing in Peer-to-Peer Systems. 78-91
Austin Parker, Guillaume Infantes, John Grant, V. S. Subrahmanian: SPOT Databases: Efficient Consistency Checking and Optimistic Selection in Probabilistic Spatial Databases. 92-107
Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis, Xiangyuan Dai, Yufei Tao, Michail Vaitis: Efficient Evaluation of Probabilistic Advanced Spatial Queries on Existentially Uncertain Data. 108-122
Fabrizio Lamberti, Andrea Sanna, Claudio Demartini: A Relation-Based Page Rank Algorithm for Semantic Web Search Engines. 123-136
Dimitrios Katsaros, George Pallis, Konstantinos Stamos, Athena Vakali, Antonis Sidiropoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos: CDNs Content Outsourcing via Generalized Communities. 137-151
Volume 21, Number 2, February 2009

David Martens, Bart Baesens, Tony Van Gestel: Decompositional Rule Extraction from Support Vector Machines by Active Learning. 178-191
Chao-Ton Su, Yu-Hsiang Hsiao: Multiclass MTS for Simultaneous Feature Selection and Classification. 192-205
Wook-Shin Han, Jaehwa Kim, Byung Suk Lee, Yufei Tao, Ralf Rantzau, Volker Markl: Cost-Based Predictive Spatiotemporal Join. 220-233
Jinwon Lee, Seungwoo Kang, Youngki Lee, Sang Jeong Lee, Junehwa Song: BMQ-Processor: A High-Performance Border-Crossing Event Detection Framework for Large-Scale Monitoring Applications. 234-252
Jaideep Vaidya, Christopher W. Clifton: Privacy-Preserving Kth Element Score over Vertically Partitioned Data. 253-258
Chih-Lin Hu, Ming-Syan Chen: Online Scheduling Sequential Objects with Periodicity for Dynamic Information Dissemination. 273-286
Verena Kantere, Spiros Skiadopoulos, Timos K. Sellis: Storing and Indexing Spatial Data in P2P Systems. 287-300
Volume 21, Number 3, March 2009
Tianyi Jiang, Alexander Tuzhilin: Improving Personalization Solutions through Optimal Segmentation of Customer Bases. 305-320
Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao, Zi Huang, Xiaofang Zhou: Effective and Efficient Query Processing for Video Subsequence Identification. 321-334
Liang Wang, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, James C. Bezdek: Automatically Determining the Number of Clusters in Unlabeled Data Sets. 335-350
Elias Frentzos, Kostas Gratsias, Yannis Theodoridis: On the Effect of Location Uncertainty in Spatial Querying. 366-383
Lin Zhu, Yufei Tao, Shuigeng Zhou: Distributed Skyline Retrieval with Low Bandwidth Consumption. 384-400
E. Patrick Shironoshita, Yves R. Jean-Mary, Ray M. Bradley, Mansur R. Kabuka: semQA: SPARQL with Idempotent Disjunction. 401-414
Jörg Ontrup, Helge Ritter, Sören W. Scholz, Ralf Wagner: Detecting, Assessing and Monitoring Relevant Topics in Virtual Information Environments. 415-427
Xiaodong Liu, Witold Pedrycz, Tianyou Chai, Mingli Song: The Development of Fuzzy Rough Sets with the Use of Structures and Algebras of Axiomatic Fuzzy Sets. 443-462
Volume 21, Number 4, April 2009
Ran Wolff, Kanishka Bhaduri, Hillol Kargupta: A Generic Local Algorithm for Mining Data Streams in Large Distributed Systems. 465-478
Ruibin Xi, Nan Lin, Yixin Chen: Compression and Aggregation for Logistic Regression Analysis in Data Cubes. 479-492
Elena Baralis, Tania Cerquitelli, Silvia Chiusano: IMine: Index Support for Item Set Mining. 493-506
Chih-Ming Hsu, Ming-Syan Chen: On the Design and Applicability of Distance Functions in High-Dimensional Data Space. 523-536
Samee Ullah Khan, Ishfaq Ahmad: A Pure Nash Equilibrium-Based Game Theoretical Method for Data Replication across Multiple Servers. 537-553
Arvind K. Tripathi, Suresh K. Nair, Gilbert G. Karuga: Optimal Lot Sizing Policies For Sequential Online Auctions. 554-567
Xiang Lian, Lei Chen, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Jinsong Han, Jian Ma: Multiscale Representations for Fast Pattern Matching in Stream Time Series. 568-581
Quang Hieu Vu, Beng Chin Ooi, M. Rinard, Kian-Lee Tan: Histogram-Based Global Load Balancing in Structured Peer-to-Peer Systems. 595-608
Volume 21, Number 5, May 2009

Sattar Hashemi, Ying Yang, Z. Mirzamomen, Mohammad Reza Kangavari: Adapted One-versus-All Decision Trees for Data Stream Classification. 624-637
Hung-Leng Chen, Ming-Syan Chen, Su-Chen Lin: Catching the Trend: A Framework for Clustering Concept-Drifting Categorical Data. 652-665
Dario Bruneo, Giuseppe Iellamo, Giuseppe Minutoli, Antonio Puliafito: GridVideo: A Practical Example of Nonscientific Application on the Grid. 666-680
Khaled M. Hammouda, Mohamed S. Kamel: Hierarchically Distributed Peer-to-Peer Document Clustering and Cluster Summarization. 681-698
Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Vassilios S. Verykios: Exact Knowledge Hiding through Database Extension. 699-713
Chang-Tien Lu, Jing Dai, Ying Jin, Janek Mathuria: GLIP: A Concurrency Control Protocol for Clipping Indexing. 714-728
Danzhou Liu, Kien A. Hua, Khanh Vu, Ning Yu: Fast Query Point Movement Techniques for Large CBIR Systems. 729-743
John F. Roddick: Schema Vacuuming in Temporal Databases. 744-747
Volume 21, Number 6, June 2009
Beng Chin Ooi: EIC Editorial. 753-755
Qing Li, Rynson W. H. Lau, Dennis McLeod, Jiming Liu: Guest Editors' Introduction: Knowledge and Data Engineering for E-Learning. 756-758
Dilhan Perera, Judy Kay, Irena Koprinska, Kalina Yacef, Osmar R. Zaïane: Clustering and Sequential Pattern Mining of Online Collaborative Learning Data. 759-772
Gennaro Costagliola, Vittorio Fuccella, Massimiliano Giordano, Giuseppe Polese: Monitoring Online Tests through Data Visualization. 773-784
Hai Zhuge: Communities and Emerging Semantics in Semantic Link Network: Discovery and Learning. 785-799
Raymond Y. K. Lau, Dawei Song, Yuefeng Li, T. C. H. Cheung, Jin-Xing Hao: Toward a Fuzzy Domain Ontology Extraction Method for Adaptive e-Learning. 800-813
Yue Suo, Naoki Miyata, Hiroki Morikawa, Toru Ishida, Yuanchun Shi: Open Smart Classroom: Extensible and Scalable Learning System in Smart Space Using Web Service Technology. 814-828
James J. Gardner, Aaron Krowne, Li Xiong: NNexus: An Automatic Linker for Collaborative Web-Based Corpora. 829-839
Hua Wang, Yanchun Zhang, Jinli Cao: Effective Collaboration with Information Sharing in Virtual Universities. 840-853
Claus Pahl, Claire Kenny: Interactive Correction and Recommendation for Computer Language Learning and Training. 854-866
Zhaohui Wu, Yuxin Mao, Huajun Chen: Subontology-Based Resource Management for Web-Based e-Learning. 867-880
Stefano Ceri, Florian Daniel, Maristella Matera, Alessandro Raffio: Providing Flexible Process Support to Project-Centered Learning. 894-909
Xiang Li, Ling Feng, Lizhu Zhou, Yuanchun Shi: Learning in an Ambient Intelligent World: Enabling Technologies and Practices. 910-924
Freya H. Lin, Timothy K. Shih, Won Kim: An Implementation of the CORDRA Architecture Enhanced for Systematic Reuse of Learning Objects. 925-938
George H. L. Fletcher, Marc Gyssens, Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht: On the Expressive Power of the Relational Algebra on Finite Sets of Relation Pairs. 939-942
Volume 21, Number 7, July 2009
Xiaochun Wang, Xiali Wang, D. Mitch Wilkes: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Minimum Spanning Tree-Based Clustering. 945-958
Muhammed Miah, Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, Heikki Mannila: Determining Attributes to Maximize Visibility of Objects. 959-973
Qingfeng Chen, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen: Discovery of Structural and Functional Features in RNA Pseudoknots. 974-984
Kasun Wickramaratna, Miroslav Kubat, Kamal Premaratne: Predicting Missing Items in Shopping Carts. 985-998
Huanhuan Chen, Peter Tiño, Xin Yao: Predictive Ensemble Pruning by Expectation Propagation. 999-1013
Pawan Lingras, Min Chen, Duoqian Miao: Rough Cluster Quality Index Based on Decision Theory. 1014-1026
Marta Capdevila Dalmau, Óscar W. Márquez Flórez: A Communication Perspective on Automatic Text Categorization. 1027-1041
Luciano Caroprese, Sergio Greco, Ester Zumpano: Active Integrity Constraints for Database Consistency Maintenance. 1042-1058
Bin Cui, Lijiang Chen, Linhao Xu, Hua Lu, Guojie Song, Quanqing Xu: Efficient Skyline Computation in Structured Peer-to-Peer Systems. 1059-1072
Yufei Tao, Hekang Chen, Xiaokui Xiao, Shuigeng Zhou, Donghui Zhang: ANGEL: Enhancing the Utility of Generalization for Privacy Preserving Publication. 1073-1087
Volume 21, Number 8, August 2009
Beng Chin Ooi: Introduction of New Associate Editors. 1089-1090
Jie Chen, Yousef Saad: Lanczos Vectors versus Singular Vectors for Effective Dimension Reduction. 1091-1103
Pasquale Rullo, Veronica L. Policicchio, Chiara Cumbo, Salvatore Iiritano: Olex: Effective Rule Learning for Text Categorization. 1118-1132
Milan Vojnovic, James Cruise, Dinan Gunawardena, Peter Marbach: Ranking and Suggesting Popular Items. 1133-1146
Yunjun Gao, Baihua Zheng, Gencai Chen, Qing Li: Optimal-Location-Selection Query Processing in Spatial Databases. 1162-1177
Zhicheng Dou, Ruihua Song, Ji-Rong Wen, Xiaojie Yuan: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Personalized Web Search. 1178-1190
Shang-Ming Zhou, John Q. Gan: Extracting Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Rules with Interpretable Submodels via Regularization of Linguistic Modifiers. 1191-1204
Pornpit Wongthongtham, Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon, Ian Sommerville: Development of a Software Engineering Ontology for Multisite Software Development. 1205-1217
Volume 21, Number 9, September 2009
Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Michael R. Lyu: Batch Mode Active Learning with Applications to Text Categorization and Image Retrieval. 1233-1248
Ping Luo, Hui Xiong, Guoxing Zhan, Junjie Wu, Zhongzhi Shi: Information-Theoretic Distance Measures for Clustering Validation: Generalization and Normalization. 1249-1262
Shiming Xiang, Feiping Nie, Changshui Zhang, Chunxia Zhang: Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction with Local Spline Embedding. 1285-1298
Tianhao Zhang, Dacheng Tao, Xuelong Li, Jie Yang: Patch Alignment for Dimensionality Reduction. 1299-1313
Yunjun Gao, Baihua Zheng, Gencai Chen, Wang-Chien Lee, Ken C. K. Lee, Qing Li: Visible Reverse k-Nearest Neighbor Query Processing in Spatial Databases. 1314-1327
Sven Groppe, Jinghua Groppe, Dirk Müller: Result Merging Technique for Answering XPath Query over XSLT Transformed Data. 1328-1342
Ahmet Bulut, Nick Koudas, Anand Meka, Ambuj K. Singh, Divesh Srivastava: Optimization Techniques for Reactive Network Monitoring. 1343-1357
Volume 21, Number 10, October 2009

Souptik Datta, Chris Giannella, Hillol Kargupta: Approximate Distributed K-Means Clustering over a Peer-to-Peer Network. 1372-1388
Magesh Jayapandian, H. V. Jagadish: Automating the Design and Construction of Query Forms. 1389-1402
Takao Yamashita: Distributed View Divergence Control of Data Freshness in Replicated Database Systems. 1403-1417
Ho Jin Woo, Won Suk Lee: estMax: Tracing Maximal Frequent Item Sets Instantly over Online Transactional Data Streams. 1418-1431
Yi-Hong Chu, Yi-Ju Chen, De-Nian Yang, Ming-Syan Chen: Reducing Redundancy in Subspace Clustering. 1432-1446
Xiang Lian, Lei Chen: General Cost Models for Evaluating Dimensionality Reduction in High-Dimensional Spaces. 1447-1460
Wei-Zhi Wu, Yee Leung, Ju-Sheng Mi: Granular Computing and Knowledge Reduction in Formal Contexts. 1461-1474
Bo Chen, Hongwei Liu, Jing Chai, Zheng Bao: Large Margin Feature Weighting Method via Linear Programming. 1475-1488
Tyrel Russell, Abid M. Malik, Michael Chase, Peter van Beek: Learning Heuristics for the Superblock Instruction Scheduling Problem. 1489-1502
Volume 21, Number 11, November 2009
Hsiao-Wei Hu, Yen-Liang Chen, Kwei Tang: A Dynamic Discretization Approach for Constructing Decision Trees with a Continuous Label. 1505-1514
Xiaofeng Wang, De-Shuang Huang: A Novel Density-Based Clustering Framework by Using Level Set Method. 1515-1531
Padraig Cunningham: A Taxonomy of Similarity Mechanisms for Case-Based Reasoning. 1532-1543
Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou: Evaluating the Generation of Domain Ontologies in the Knowledge Puzzle Project. 1559-1572
Moon-Bae Song, Hiroyuki Kitagawa: Managing Frequent Updates in R-Trees for Update-Intensive Applications. 1573-1589
Yi-Ren Yeh, Su-Yun Huang, Yuh-Jye Lee: Nonlinear Dimension Reduction with Kernel Sliced Inverse Regression. 1590-1603
M. L. Aldridge, M. W. Berry: Performance of a Finite-State Machine Implementation of Iterative Cluster Labeling on Desktop and Mobile Computing Platforms. 1604-1616
Ding-An Chiang, Cheng-Tzu Wang, Shao-Ping Chen, Chun-Chi Chen: The Cyclic Model Analysis on Sequential Patterns. 1617-1628
Pierluigi Plebani, Barbara Pernici: URBE: Web Service Retrieval Based on Similarity Evaluation. 1629-1642
M. Laszlo, S. Mukherjee: Approximation Bounds for Minimum Information Loss Microaggregation. 1643-1647
Volume 21, Number 12, December 2009
Nizar Bouguila: A Model-Based Approach for Discrete Data Clustering and Feature Weighting Using MAP and Stochastic Complexity. 1649-1664
Ming Hua, Man Ki Lau, Jian Pei, Kui Wu: Continuous K-Means Monitoring with Low Reporting Cost in Sensor Networks. 1679-1691
Chowdhury Farhan Ahmed, Syed Khairuzzaman Tanbeer, Byeong-Soo Jeong, Young-Koo Lee: Efficient Tree Structures for High Utility Pattern Mining in Incremental Databases. 1708-1721
Praveen Rao, Bongki Moon: Locating XML Documents in a Peer-to-Peer Network Using Distributed Hash Tables. 1737-1752
Yingpeng Sang, Hong Shen, Hui Tian: Privacy-Preserving Tuple Matching in Distributed Databases. 1767-1782
Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Peng Liu, Dik Lun Lee, Xuhua Ding: Tuning On-Air Signatures for Balancing Performance and Confidentiality. 1783-1797
Yiu-ming Cheung, Hong Zeng: Local Kernel Regression Score for Selecting Features of High-Dimensional Data. 1798-1802
Wang Zhenwei, Hui Li: Manufacturing-Oriented Discrete Process Modeling Approach Using the Predicate Logic. 1803-1806



