ISBN: 3-540-66485-8
TITLE: Advances in Databases and Information Systems
AUTHOR: Eder, Johann; Rozman, Ivan; Welzer, Tatjana (Eds.)
TOC:

Invited Papers
Trust for Electronic Commerce Transactions 1
Gnther Pernul, Alexander W. Rhm, Gaby Herrmann
A Family of the ODMG Object Models 14
Suad Alag
Regular Papers
Integration
Consistent Handling of Integrity Constraints and Extensional Assertions for Schema Integration 31
Can Trker, Gunter Saake
Deriving Type Conflicts and Object Cluster Similarities in Database Schemes by an Automatic and Semantic Approach 46
Domenico Ursino
Information Retrieval & Multimedia
A Model for Querying Annotated Documents 61
Frederique Laforest, Anne Tchounikine
Word-Based Compression Methods and Indexing for Text Retrieval Systems 75
Jiri Dvorsk, Jaroslav Pokorn, Vaclav Snsel
Processing of Spatiotemporal Queries in Image Databases 85
Theodoros Tzouramanis, Michael Vassilakopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos
Transactions
On the Correctness of Virtual Partition Algorithm in a Nested Transaction Environment 98
Sanjay Kumar Madria, S.N. Maheshwari, B. Chandra
Computing Rules for Detecting Contradictory Transaction Termination Dependencies 113
Kerstin Schwarz, Can Trker, Gunter Saake
A New Class Hierarchy Concurrency Control Technique in Object-Oriented Database Systems 128
Woochun Jun
Index-Structures
The G^r_Tree: The Use of Active Regions in G-Trees 141
Dimitris G. Kapopoulos, Michael Hatzopoulos
S^*-tree: An Improved S^+-tree for Coloured Images 156
Enrico Nardelli, Guido Proietti
Agent Technology
Workflow Management System Using Mobile Agents 168
Zoran Budimac, Mirjana Ivanovi, Aleksandar Popovi
Data Mining
Pattern-Oriented Hierarchical Clustering 179
Tadeusz Morzy, Marek Wojciechowski, Maciej Zakrzewicz
Data Mining in a Multidimensional Environment 191
Holger Gnzel, Jens Albrecht, Wolfgang Lehner
Arbiter Meta-Learning with Dynamic Selection of Classifiers and its Experimental Investigation 205
Alexey Tsymbal, Seppo Puuronen, Vagan Terziyan
Data Modeling
The Notion of Classes of a Path in ER Schemas 218
Junkang Feng, Malcolm Crowe
Evaluation of Data Modeling 232
Ronald Maier
Organizational Modeling for Efficient Specification of Information Security Requirements 247
Jussipekka Leiwo, Chandana Gamage, Yuliang Zheng
Incomplete Data
A Closed Approach to Vague Collections in Partly Inaccessible Distributed Databases 261
Oliver Haase, Andreas Henrich
Infinite Relations in Paraconsistent Databases 275
Nicholas Tran, Rajiv Bagai
Queries
Query Rewriting and Search in CROQUE 288
Joachim Krger, Regina Illner, Steffen Rost, Andreas Heuer
Object Query Optimization in the Stack-Based Approach 303
Jacek Kraken
Database Theory
Compositional Specification Calculus for Information Systems Development 317
Leonid Kalinichenko
Performance Issues
The Impact of Using Class Inheritance in a Distributed Information System 332
Patrick Dunne, Alex Gray
Performance Assessment Framework for Distributed Object Architectures 349
Matja B. Juri, Tatjana Welzer, Ivan Rozman, Marjan Heriko, Botjan Brumen, Tomas Domajnko, Ale
Efficient Use of Signatures in Object-Oriented Database Systems 367
Kjetil Norvag
Author Index 383
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