Advances in Databases and Information Systems

Invited Lectures.- ETL Workflows: From Formal Specification to Optimization.- Harvesting and Organizing Knowledge from the Web.- Schema and Data Translation: A Personal Perspective.- Activity Modeling.- A Protocol Ontology for Inter-Organizational Workflow Coordination.- Preventing Orphan Requests by Integrating Replication and Transactions.- Discretization Numbers for Multiple-Instances Problem in Relational Database.- Classification.- Adaptive k-Nearest-Neighbor Classification Using a Dynamic Number of Nearest Neighbors.- Database Implementation of a Model-Free Classifier.- Design.- Update Support for Database Views Via Cooperation.- An Agile Process for the Creation of Conceptual Models from Content Descriptions.- Object-Oriented Systems.- ODRA: A Next Generation Object-Oriented Environment for Rapid Database Application Development.- An Object-Oriented Based Algebra for Ontologies and Their Instances.- Indexing.- The MM-Tree: A Memory-Based Metric Tree Without Overlap Between Nodes.- Improving the Performance of M-Tree Family by Nearest-Neighbor Graphs.- Indexing Mobile Objects on the Plane Revisited.- Clustering and OLAP.- A Clustering Framework for Unbalanced Partitioning and Outlier Filtering on High Dimensional Datasets.- Moving Objects.- On the Effect of Trajectory Compression in Spatiotemporal Querying.- Prediction of Bus Motion and Continuous Query Processing for Traveler Information Services.- Optimal Query Mapping in Mobile OLAP.- Query Processing.- A Statistics Propagation Approach to Enable Cost-Based Optimization of Statement Sequences.- A Fixpoint Approach to State Generation for Stratifiable Disjunctive Deductive Databases.- Graphical Querying of Multidimensional Databases.- DB Architectures and Streams.- Incremental Validation of String-Based XML Data in Databases, File Systems, and Streams.- XML and Databases.- Combining Efficient XML Compression with Query Processing.- Distributed Systems.- Fast User Notification in Large-Scale Digital