6. EDBT 1998: Valencia, Spain

Hans-Jörg Schek, Fèlix Saltor, Isidro Ramos, Gustavo Alonso (Eds.): Advances in Database Technology - EDBT'98, 6th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Valencia, Spain, March 23-27, 1998, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1377 Springer 1998, ISBN 3-540-64264-1

Keynote Talk

Gerhard Weikum:
On the Ubiquity of Information Services and the Absence of Guaranteed Service Quality. 3-6

Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella, Pavel Zezula:
Processing Complex Similarity Queries with Distance-Based Access Methods. 9-23
Norbert Fuhr, Thomas Rölleke:
HySpirit - A Probabilistic Inference Engine for Hypermedia Retrieval in Large Databases. 24-38
Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania, Boris Shidlovsky:
Towards Optimal Indexing for Segment Databases. 39-53

Ramana Yerneni, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Serge Abiteboul, Hector Garcia-Molina:
Fusion Queries over Internet Databases. 57-71
Giansalvatore Mecca, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Paolo Merialdo:
Efficient Queries over Web Views. 72-86
George A. Mihaila, Louiqa Raschid, Anthony Tomasic:
Equal Time for Data on the Internet with WebSemantics. 87-101

Dao-I Lin, Zvi M. Kedem:
Pincer Search: A New Algorithm for Discovering the Maximum Frequent Set. 105-119
Shin-Chung Shao:
Multivariate and Multidimensional OLAP. 120-134
Martin Ester, Rüdiger Wittmann:
Incremental Generalization for Mining in a Data Warehousing Environment. 135-149

Wolfgang Lehner:
Modelling Large Scale OLAP Scenarios. 153-167
Sunita Sarawagi, Rakesh Agrawal, Nimrod Megiddo:
Discovery-Driven Exploration of OLAP Data Cubes. 168-182
Luca Cabibbo, Riccardo Torlone:
A Logical Approach to Multidimensional Databases. 183-197

Wolfgang Scheufele, Guido Moerkotte:
Efficient Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Ordering Expensive Joins and Selections. 201-215
Stefan Berchtold, Christian Böhm, Hans-Peter Kriegel:
Improving the Query Performance of High-Dimensional Index Structures by Bulk-Load Operations. 216-230
Jaber Al-Marri, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh:
An Evaluation of Alternative Disk Scheduling Techniques in Support of Variable Bit Rate Continuous Media. 231-245
Ling Feng, Hongjun Lu, Y. C. Tay, Anthony K. H. Tung:
Buffer Management in Distributed Database Systems: A Data Mining Based Approach. 246-260

Kenneth A. Ross, Divesh Srivastava, Damianos Chatziantoniou:
Complex Aggregation at Multiple Granularities. 263-277
Takeshi Fukuda, Hirofumi Matsuzawa:
Parallel Processing of Multiple Aggregate Queries on Shared-Nothing Multiprocessors. 278-292
Michael O. Akinde, Ole Guttorm Jensen, Michael H. Böhlen:
Minimizing Detail Data in Data Warehouses. 293-307

Véronique Benzaken, Xavier Schaefer:
Static Management of Integrity in Object-Oriented Databases: Design and Implementation. 311-325
Jérôme Darmont, Bertrand Petit, Michel Schneider:
OCB: A Generic Benchmark to Evaluate the Performances of Object-Oriented Database Systems. 326-340
Sin Yeung Lee, Tok Wang Ling:
A Path Removing Technique for Detecting Trigger Termination. 341-355

Anisoara Nica, Amy J. Lee, Elke A. Rundensteiner:
The CVS Algorithm for View Synchronization in Evolvable Large-Scale Information Systems. 359-373
Dimitra Vista:
Integration of Incremental View Maintenance into Query Optimizers. 374-388
Jun Yang, Jennifer Widom:
Maintaining Temporal Views over Non-Temporal Information Sources for Data Warehousing. 389-403
Bertram Ludäscher, Wolfgang May:
Referential Actions: From Logical Semantics to Implementation. 404-418

Piero Fraternali, Paolo Paolini:
A Conceptual Model and a Tool Environment for Developing More Scalable, Dynamic, and Customizable Web Applications. 421-435
Paolo Atzeni, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Merialdo:
Design and Maintenance of Data-Intensive Web Sites. 436-450
Motomichi Toyama, Takuhiro Nagafuji:
Dynamic and Structured Presentation of Database Contents on the Web. 451-465

Rakesh Agrawal, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Frank Leymann:
Mining Process Models from Workflow Logs. 469-483
Jian Tang, San-Yih Hwang:
A Scheme to Specify and Implement Ad-Hoc Recovery in Workflow Systems. 484-498
Anthony Kosky, I-Min A. Chen, Victor M. Markowitz, Ernest Szeto:
Exploring Heterogeneous Biological Databases: Tools and Applications. 499-513