Scientific and Statistical Database Management

Keynote Talks.- New Challenges in Petascale Scientific Databases.- Adventures in the Blogosphere.- The Evolution of Vertical Database Architectures - A Historical Review (Keynote Talk).- Query Optimization in Scientific Databases.- Linked Bernoulli Synopses: Sampling along Foreign Keys.- Query Planning for Searching Inter-dependent Deep-Web Databases.- Summarizing Two-Dimensional Data with Skyline-Based Statistical Descriptors.- Query Selectivity Estimation for Uncertain Data.- Privacy.- Disclosure Risks of Distance Preserving Data Transformations.- Privacy-Preserving Publication of User Locations in the Proximity of Sensitive Sites.- A Probabilistic Framework for Building Privacy-Preserving Synopses of Multi-dimensional Data.- Searching and Mining Graphs.- Efficient Similarity Search for Tree-Structured Data.- Hierarchical Graph Embedding for Efficient Query Processing in Very Large Traffic Networks.- Monitoring Aggregate k-NN Objects in Road Networks.- RAM: Randomized Approximate Graph Mining.- Data Streams.- Finding Frequent Items over General Update Streams.- Efficiently Discovering Recent Frequent Items in Data Streams.- Prioritized Evaluation of Continuous Moving Queries over Streaming Locations.- Scientific Database Applications.- A Comparative Evaluation of XML Difference Algorithms with Genomic Data.- Adaptive Request Scheduling for Parallel Scientific Web Services.- ViP: A User-Centric View-Based Annotation Framework for Scientific Data.- Ontology Database: A New Method for Semantic Modeling and an Application to Brainwave Data.- Advanced Indexing Methods.- The hB-pi* Tree: An Optimized Comprehensive Access Method for Frequent-Update Multi-dimensional Point Data.- Breaking the Curse of Cardinality on Bitmap Indexes.- A New Approach for Optimization of Dynamic Metric Access Methods Using an Algorithm of Effective Deletion.- An Ontology-Based Index to Retrieve Documents with Geographic Information.- Data Mining.- Mining Temporal Association Patterns under a