Advances in Databases and Information Systems

Invited Lectures.- Time: A Coordinate for Web Site Modelling.- Trust Is not Enough: Privacy and Security in ASP and Web Service Environments.- Infrastructure for Information Spaces.- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.- An Axiomatic Approach to Defining Approximation Measures for Functional Dependencies.- Intelligent Support for Information Retrieval in the WWW Environment.- An Approach to Improve Text Classification Efficiency.- Semantic Similarity in Content-Based Filtering.- Data Access Paths for Frequent Itemsets Discovery.- Mobile Databases.- Monitoring Continuous Location Queries Using Mobile Agents.- Optimistic Concurrency Control Based on Timestamp Interval for Broadcast Environment.- A Flexible Personalization Architecture for Wireless Internet Based on Mobile Agents.- Multiversion Data Broadcast Organizations.- Spatiotemporal and Spatial Databases.- Revisiting R-Tree Construction Principles.- Approximate Algorithms for Distance-Based Queries in High-Dimensional Data Spaces Using R-Trees.- Efficient Similarity Search in Feature Spaces with the Q-Tree.- Spatio-Temporal Geographic Information Systems: A Causal Perspective.- An Access Method for Integrating Multi-scale Geometric Data.- Multidimensional Databases and Information Systems.- OLAP Query Evaluation in a Database Cluster: A Performance Study on Intra-Query Parallelism.- A Standard for Representing Multidimensional Properties: The Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM).- A Framework to Analyse and Evaluate Information Systems Specification Languages.- Object Oriented and Deductive Databases.- Flattening the Metamodel for Object Databases.- A Semantic Query Optimization Approach to Optimize Linear Datalog Programs.- An Object Algebra for the ODMG Standard.- Data Modeling and Workflows.- Many-Dimensional Schema Modeling.- Object-Oriented Data Model for Data Warehouse.- A Meta Model for Structured Workflows Supporting Workflow Transformations.- Web Databases and Semistructured Data.- Towards an Exhaustive Set