Flexible and Efficient Information Handling

Invited Papers.- The Lixto Project: Exploring New Frontiers of Web Data Extraction.- An Overview of a Scalable Distributed Database System SD-SQL Server.- Data Modelling and Architectures and Transaction Management.- Using UML's Sequence Diagrams for Representing Execution Models Associated to Triggers.- An Experimental Consideration of the Use of the TransrelationalTMModel for Data Warehousing.- Reducing Sub-transaction Aborts and Blocking Time Within Atomic Commit Protocols.- Data Integration and Interoperability and Information Retrieval.- Query Translation for Distributed Heterogeneous Structured and Semi-structured Databases.- Information Retrieval Evaluation with Partial Relevance Judgment.- Sources of Incompleteness in Grid Publishing.- Query Processing and Optimization.- Privacy Preservation and Protection by Extending Generalized Partial Indices.- On the Optimal Ordering of Maps, Selections, and Joins Under Factorization.- An I/O Optimal and Scalable Skyline Query Algorithm.- Data Mining.- A Novel Clustering Method Based on Spatial Operations.- A FP-Tree-Based Method for Inverse Frequent Set Mining.- SC-Tree: An Efficient Structure for High-Dimensional Data Indexing.- A Heterogeneous Computing System for Data Mining Workflows.- An Efficient System for Detecting Outliers from Financial Time Series.- Data Warehousing and Decision-Support Systems.- Efficient Update of Data Warehouse Views with Generalised Referential Integrity Differential Files.- SAGA: A Combination of Genetic and Simulated Annealing Algorithms for Physical Data Warehouse Design.- Data Streaming.- Scheduling Strategies and Their Evaluation in a Data Stream Management System.- The Anatomy of a Stream Processing System.- Poster Papers.- Analyzing the Genetic Operations of an Evolutionary Query Optimizer.- An Evidential Approach to Integrating Semantically Heterogeneous Distributed Databases.- Interoperability and Integration of Independent Heterogeneous Distributed Databases over theInternet.-