This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2007, held in Varna, Bulgaria, in September/October 2007. The 23 revised papers presented together with three invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers address current research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications.
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 Prool 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 Libraries: Experiments and Results.- Quete: Ontology-Based Query System for Distributed Sources.
Overview
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2007, held in Varna, Bulgaria, in September/October 2007. The 23 revised papers presented together with three invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers address current research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications.