Sharing Data, Information and Knowledge: 25th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 25, Cardiff, UK, July 7-10, 2008, Proceedings

Keynote.- The Power of Data.- Data Mining and Privacy.- Efficient Mining of Frequent Itemsets from Data Streams.- An Empirical Study of Utility Measures for k-Anonymisation.- HLS: Tunable Mining of Approximate Functional Dependencies.- Sentence Ordering for Coherent Multi-document Summary Generation.- Data Integration.- Schema Matching across Query Interfaces on the Deep Web.- A Generic Data Level Implementation of ModelGen.- Reconciling Inconsistent Data in Probabilistic XML Data Integration.- Stream and Event Data Processing.- A Semantics for a Query Language over Sensors, Streams and Relations.- Load Shedding in MavStream: Analysis, Implementation, and Evaluation.- Event-Driven Database Information Sharing.- Query Processing and Optimisation.- Smooth Interpolating Histograms with Error Guarantees.- Virtual Forced Splitting, Demotion and the BV-Tree.- A Functional Data Model Approach to Querying RDF/RDFS Data.- Ranking for Approximated XQuery Full-Text Queries.- Poster Papers.- Role Based Access to Support Collaboration in Healthcare.- A Peer-to-Peer Database Server.- Checking the Integrity Constraints of Mobile Databases with Three-Level Model.- Finding Data Resources in a Virtual Observatory Using SKOS Vocabularies.- Progressive Ranking for Efficient Keyword Search over Relational Databases.- Semantic Matching for the Medical Domain.- Towards the Automatic Generation of Analytical End-User Tools Metadata for Data Warehouses.- 25th Anniversary Colloquium on Advances in Database Research.- The Hyperdatabase Project – From the Vision to Realizations.- From Schema and Model Translation to a Model Management System.- XtreemOS: Towards a Grid-Enabled Linux-Based Operating System.- High-Assurance Integrity Techniques for Databases.- Towards General Temporal Aggregation.- Best Papers from the Workshop on Biodiversity Informatics: Challenges in Modelling and Managing Biodiversity Knowledge.- Distributed Systems and Automated Biodiversity Informatics: Genomic Analysis and Geographic Visualization of Disease Evolution.- Visualisation to Aid Biodiversity Studies through Accurate Taxonomic Reconciliation.