ISBN: 3540411844
TITLE: Advances in Information Systems
AUTHOR: Yakhno, Tatyana (Ed.)
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Table of Contents
Data Warehouses
Model of Summary Tables Selection for Data Warehouses 1
Bogdan Czejdo, Malcolm Taylor, and Catherine Putonti
Modeling the Behavior of OLAP Applications Using an UML Compliant Approach 14
Juan Trujillo, Jaime Gmez, and Manuel Palomar
Conceptual Multidimensional Data Model Based on Meta Cube 24
Thanh B. Nguyen, A Min Tjoa, and Roland Wagner
Using Portfolio Theory for Automatically Processing Information about Data Quality in Data Warehouse Environments 34
Robert M. Bruckner and Josef Schiefer
Representative Sample Data for Data Warehouse Environments 44
Thanh N. Huynh, Thanh B. Nguyen, Josef Schiefer, and A Min Tjoa
Databases
Classification Abstraction: An Intrinsic Element in Database Systems 57
Elaine P. Machado, Caetano Traina Jr., and Myrian R. B. Araujo
Estimating Proximity of Metric Ball Regions for Multimedia Data Indexing 71
Giuseppe Amato, Fausto Rabitti, Pasqualle Savino, and Pavel Zezula
A Technique for Upgrading Database Machines Online 82
Jiahong Wang, Masatoshi Miyazaki, and Jie Li
Automatic Semantic Object Discovery and Mapping from Non-normalised Relational Database Systems 92
Sokratis Karkalas and Nigel Martin
Estimation of Uncertain Relations between Indeterminate Temporal Points 108
Vladimir Ryabov and Seppo Puuronen
Comparison of Genetic and Tabu Search Algorithms in Multiquery Optimization in Advanced Database Systems 117
Zbyszko Krlikowski, Tadeusz Morzy, and Bartosz Bebel
Computer Networks
Interval Optimization of Correlated Data Items in Data Broadcasting 127
Etsuko Yajima, Takahiro Hara, Masahiko Tsukamoto, and Shojiro Nishio
Store and Flood: A Packet Routing Protocol for Frequently Changing Topology with Ad-Hoc Networks 137
Hirako Hagino, Takahiro Hara, Masahiko Tsukamoto, and Shojiro Nishio
Management of Networks with End-to-End Differentiated Service QoS Capabilities 147
Lisandro Z. Granville, Rodrigo U. Fleischmann, Liane M. Rockenbach Tarouco, and Maria J. Almeida
Throughput Stability of Reliable Multicast Protocols 159
znur zkasap and Kenneth P. Birman
On the Rearrangeability of Multistage Networks Employing Uniform Connection Pattern 170
Rza Bashirov
Constraint Programming
Numeric Constraint Resolution in Logic Programming Based on Subdefinite Models 180
Evgueni Petrov
Combining Constraints and Consistency Techniques in Knowledge-Based Expert Systems 191
Ili Popescu
Declarative Modelling of Constraint Propagation Strategies 201
Laurent Granvilliers and Eric Monfroy
Content-Based Image Retrieval
Clustering of Texture Features for Content-Based Image Retrieval 216
Erbug Celebi and Adil Alpkocak
Fuzzy Content-Based Retrieval in Image Databases 226
Ibrahim Gokcen, Adnan Yazici, and Bill P. Buckles
CLIMS - A System for Image Retrieval by Using Colour and Wavelet Features 238
O. Kao and I. la Tendresse
An Algorithm for Progressive Raytracing 248
Okan Arikan and Ugur Gdkbay
Fuzzy Signatures for Multimedia Databases 257
Vclav Snel
Internet Technologies
Evolutionary Prefetching and Caching in an Independent Storage Units Model 265
Athena Vakali
A Video Streaming Application on the Internet 275
Aylin Kantarci and Turhan Tunali
What Do Hyperlink-Proposals and Request-Prediction Have in Common? 285
Ernst-Georg Haffner, Uwe Roth, Andreas Heuer, Thomas Engel, and Christoph Meinel
The Valid Web: An XML/XSL Infrastructure for Temporal Management of Web Documents 294
Fabio Grandi and Federica Mandreoli
Application of Metadata Concepts to Discovery of Internet Resources 304
Mehmet E. Kucuk, Baha Olgun, and Hayri Sever
Information Systems
Evaluation of the Object-Orientation of a Multi-agent System 314
Bora I. Kumova
Development of a Component Oriented Garment Design Library 324
Ender Y. Bulgun and Alp Kut
Using Wrapper Agents to Answer Queries in Distributed Information Systems 331
Luciano Serafini and Chiara Ghidini
An Interactive Cryptanalysis Algorithm for the Vigenere Cipher 341
Mehmet E. Dalkilic and Cengiz Gungor
Mappings and Interoperability: A Meta-modelling Approach 352
E. Domnguez and M. A. Zapata
Reliability Index Evaluations of Integrated Software Systems (Internet) for Insufficient Software Failure and Recovery Data 363
Mehmet Sahinoglu
FedeRaL: A Tool for Federating Reuse Libraries over the Internet 374
Murat O. nalir, Oguz Dikenelli, and Erden Basar
Multimedia Information Systems: Towards a Design Methodology Based on Spatio-Temporal Relations, Petri Nets, and ECA Rules 384
Sabine Boufenara, Zizette Boufada, Mahmoud Boufaida, and Denis Poiterenaud
Information Retrieval
Modeling and Information Retrieval on XML-Based Dataweb 398
Amrane Hocine and Moussa Lo
A Rule-Based Approach to Represent Spatio-Temporal Relations in Video Data 409
Mehmet E. Dnderler, Ozgr Ulusoy, and Ugur Gdkbay
Factual and Temporal Imperfection 419
P. Chountas and I. Petrounias
An Agent-Based Information Retrieval System 429
Suat Ugurlu and Nadia Erdogan
Artificial Intelligence
An Intelligent Tutoring System for Student Guidance in Web-Based Courses 437
Blent Ozdemir and Ferda N. Alpaslan
An Approach to Embedding of Agents into Knowledge Representation and Processing System 449
Yuriy Zagorulko, Ivan Popov, and Yuriy Kostov
Author Index 459
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