24. ICDE 2008: Cancun, Mexico

The 3rd international workshop on self-managing database systems (SMDB)

• Rimma V. Nehme:
  Database, heal thyself. 4-10
  
• Biplob K. Debnath, David J. Lilja, Mohamed F. Mokbel:
  SARD: A statistical approach for ranking database tuning parameters. 11-18
  
• Daniel M. Yellin, Jorge Buenabad Chávez, Norman W. Paton:
  Probabilistic adaptive load balancing for parallel queries. 19-26
  
• Tanu Malik, Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Debabrata Dash, Anastasia Ailamaki:
  Automated physical design in database caches. 27-34
  
• Umar Farooq Minhas, Jitendra Yadav, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem:
  Database systems on virtual machines: How much do you lose? 35-41
  
• Sandeep Tata, Lin Qiao, Guy M. Lohman:
  On common tools for databases - The case for a client-based index advisor. 42-49
  
• João Pedro Costa, Pedro Furtado:
  Poster session: Towards a QoS-aware DBMS. 50-55
  
• Mohamed A. Sharaf, Shenoda Guirguis, Alexandros Labrinidis, Kirk Pruhs, Panos K. Chrysanthis:
  Poster session: ASETS: A self-managing transaction scheduler. 56-62
  
• Hannes Voigt, Wolfgang Lehner, Kenneth Salem:
  Poster session: Constrained dynamic physical database design. 63-70
  
• Haider Rizvi, Joyce Coleman, Sam Lightstone:
  Poster session: Simplifying business intelligence with a hybrid appliance: the IBM balanced warehouse. 71-78
  

International Workshop on RFID Data Management

• Damianos Chatziantoniou, Katerina Pramatari, Yannis Sotiropoulos:
  COSTES: Continuous spreadsheet-like computations. 82-87
  
• Valer-Alin Crisan, Ralf Rantzau:
  An alert notification facility for RFID event repositories. 88-93
  
• Tingting Mao, John Williams, Abel Sanchez:
  Interoperable internet scale security framework for RFID networks. 94-99
  
• Yuanxin Ouyang, Qiao Ren, Ting Zhang, Jiuyue Hao, Zhang Xiong:
  RFIDPROBUS: A universal RFID reader communication protocol. 100-101
  
• Adam Melski, Jürgen Müller, Alexander Zeier, Matthias Schumann:
  Improving supply chain visibility through RFID data. 102-103
  
• Antti Sirkka:
  Modelling traceability in the forestry wood supply chain. 104-105
  
• Holger Ziekow, Lenka Ivantysynova:
  A probabilistic approach for cleaning RFID data. 106-107
  
• Yan Luo, Ouri Wolfson, Bo Xu:
  The role of auto-ID technologies in mobile E-commerce databases (vision paper). 108-109
  

Data and Services Management in Mobile Environments (DS2ME)

• Christine Collet, Thierry Delot, Genoveva Vargas-Solar:
  Message from the DS2ME'08 co-chairs. 111
  
• José Moreira, Cristina Ribeiro, Jean-Marc Saglio, Michel Scholl:
  A model of approximations for representing time-varying multidimensional data. 113-120
  
• Alberto Portilla, Tan Hanh, Javier-Alfonso Espinosa-Oviedo:
  Building reliable mobile services based applications. 121-128
  
• Angelo Chianese, Antonio d'Acierno, Vincenzo Moscato, Antonio Picariello:
  Pre-serialization of long running transactions to improve concurrency in mobile environments. 129-136
  
• Víctor Cuevas-Vicenttín:
  Towards multi-scale query processing. 137-144
  
• Hocine Grine, Sylvain Lecomte:
  Self-adaptation of a query service using reconfigurable components. 145-151
  
• Oscar Urra, Sergio Ilarri, Eduardo Mena:
  Testing mobile agent platforms over the air. 152-159
  
• Dana Al Kukhun, Bouchra Soukkarieh, Érick Lopez-Ornelas, Florence Sedes:
  LA-GPS : A location-aware geographical pervasive system. 160-163
  
• Edgardo Avilés-López, J. Antonio García-Macías:
  Managing primary context through web services. 164-167
  

Networking Meets Databases (NetDB)

• Joseph B. Kopena, Boon Thau Loo:
  OntoNet: Scalable knowledge-based networking. 170-175
  
• Dalie Sun, Sai Wu, Jianzhong Li, Anthony K. H. Tung:
  Skyline-join in distributed databases. 176-181
  
• Yongluan Zhou, Karl Aberer, Ali Salehi, Kian-Lee Tan:
  Rethinking the design of distributed stream processing systems. 182-187
  
• Wenchao Zhou, Eric Cronin, Boon Thau Loo:
  Provenance-aware secure networks. 188-193
  
• Zou Peng, Su Liang, Jia Yan, Han WeiHong, Yang ShuQiang:
  Fast similarity matching on data stream with noise. 194-199
  
• Georgia Koloniari, Evaggelia Pitoura:
  Recall-based cluster reformulation by selfish peers. 200-205
  
• Olga Papaemmanouil, Sujoy Basu, Sujata Banerjee:
  Adaptive in-network query deployment for shared stream processing environments. 206-211
  

Information Integration Methods, Architectures, and Systems (IIMAS)

• Matthias Böhm, Dirk Habich, Wolfgang Lehner, Uwe Wloka:
  DIPBench: An independent benchmark for Data-Intensive Integration Processes. 214-221
  
• Sudarshan Murthy, David Maier, Lois M. L. Delcambre:
  Speeding up on-the-fly integration of DB and exo-DB data. 222-229
  
• Olivier Curé, Jean-David Bensaid:
  Integration of relational databases into OWL knowledge bases: demonstration of the DBOM system. 230-233
  
• Olivier Curé, Stefan Jablonski, Florent Jochaud, M. Abdul Rehman, Bernhard Volz:
  Semantic data integration in the DaltOn system. 234-241
  
• Barbara T. Blaustein, Len Seligman, Michael Morse, M. David Allen, Arnon Rosenthal:
  PLUS: Synthesizing privacy, lineage, uncertainty and security. 242-245
  
• Srivatsava Ranjit Ganta, Raj Acharya:
  On breaching enterprise data privacy through adversarial information fusion. 246-249
  
• Patrick Ziegler, Klaus R. Dittrich, Ela Hunt:
  A call for personal semantic data integration. 250-253
  
• Daniele Braga, Diego Calvanese, Alessandro Campi, Stefano Ceri, Florian Daniel, Davide Martinenghi, Paolo Merialdo, Riccardo Torlone:
  NGS: a framework for multi-domain query answering. 254-261
  
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi:
  Adding structure to web search with itrails [position paper]. 262-265
  
• Michael D. Lieberman, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hanan Samet, Jon Sperling:
  Augmenting spatio-textual search with an infectious disease ontology. 266-269
  
• Bill Howe, David Maier, Nicolas Rayner, James Rucker:
  Quarrying dataspaces: Schemaless profiling of unfamiliar information sources. 270-277
  
• Avigdor Gal:
  Interpreting similarity measures: Bridging the gap between schema matching and data integration. 278-285
  
• Mariano Rodriguez-Muro, Lina Lubyte, Diego Calvanese:
  Realizing Ontology Based Data Access: A plug-in for protégé. 286-289
  
• Nikolaos Bozovic, Vasilis Vassalos:
  Two-phase schema matching in real world relational databases. 290-296
  

Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP)

• Edgar Chávez, Gonzalo Navarro:
  Message from the SISAP'08 program committee co-chairs. 299
  
• Daniel P. Miranker:
  Evolving models of biological sequence similarity. 301-307
  
• Marco Patella, Paolo Ciaccia:
  The many facets of approximate similarity search. 308-319
  
• Nouha Bouteldja, Valérie Gouet-Brunet, Michel Scholl:
  HiPeR : Hierarchical progressive exact retrieval in multi dimensional spaces. 320-329
  
• Dave Tahmoush, Hanan Samet:
  High-dimensional similarity retrieval using dimensional choice. 330-337
  
• Ahmet Sacan, Ismail Hakki Toroslu:
  Approximate similarity search in genomic sequence databases using landmark-guided embedding. 338-345
  
• Jan Ulrych, Michal Kopecky:
  Visual similarity in sign language. 346-353
  
• Colin de la Higuera, Luisa Micó:
  A contextual normalised edit distance. 354-361
  
• Matthew Skala:
  Counting distance permutations. 362-369
  
• Michal Batko, Petra Kohoutkova, Pavel Zezula:
  Combining metric features in large collections. 370-377
  
• Vlastislav Dohnal, Jan Sedmidubský, Pavel Zezula, David Novak:
  Similarity searching: Towards bulk-loading peer-to-peer networks. 378-385
  
• Veronica Gil Costa, Mauricio Marín, Nora Reyes:
  An empirical evaluation of a distributed clustering-based index for metric space databases. 386-393
  
• Benjamin Bustos, Oscar Pedreira, Nieves R. Brisaboa:
  A dynamic pivot selection technique for similarity search. 394-401
  
• Cengiz Celik:
  Effective use of space for pivot-based metric indexing structures. 402-409
  
• Jakub Lokoc, Tomás Skopal:
  On reinsertions in M-tree. 410-417
  
• Rodrigo Paredes, Nora Reyes:
  List of twin clusters: a data structure for similarity joins in metric spaces. 418-425
  
• Weijia Xu, Daniel P. Miranker, Rui Mao, Smriti R. Ramakrishnan:
  Anytime k-nearest neighbor search for database applications. 426-435
  
• Matthew Skala:
  On the complexity of reverse similarity search. 436-443
  

Secure Semantic Web (SSW)

• Bhavani M. Thuraisingham, Barbara Carminati:
  Message from the SSW'08 organizers. 445
  
• Simon N. Foley, William M. Fitzgerald:
  Semantic Web and firewall alignment. 447-453
  
• Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Federica Paci, Elisa Bertino:
  Trust establishment in the formation of Virtual Organizations. 454-461
  
• Jaehoon Kim, Kangsoo Jung, Seog Park:
  An RDF triple based access authorization specification considering subsumption relationships. 462-469
  
• Javier Chamizo, Myriam Mencke, Juan Miguel Gómez, Giner Alor-Hernández:
  Enabling role-based web access control using a declarative logical framework. 470-474
  
• Ashraful Alam, Latifur Khan, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham:
  Geospatial Resource Description Framework (GRDF) and security constructs. 475-481
  
• Mohammad Farhan Husain, Mohmmad Alam, Tahseen Al-Khateeb, Latifur Khan:
  Ontology based policy interoperability in geo-spatial domain. 482-489
  
• Palanivel Balaji Kodeswaran, Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin:
  Enforcing security in semantics driven policy based networks. 490-497
  

Data Engineering for Blogs, Social Media, and Web 2.0 (DEBSM)

• Matthias Bender, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebastian Michel, Thomas Neumann, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Ralf Schenkel, Gerhard Weikum:
  Exploiting social relations for query expansion and result ranking. 501-506
  
• Kerstin Denecke:
  Using SentiWordNet for multilingual sentiment analysis. 507-512
  
• Iraklis Varlamis, Vasilis Vassalos, Antonis Palaios:
  Monitoring the evolution of interests in the blogosphere. 513-518
  
• Meng-Fen Chiang, Wen-Chih Peng, Chia-Hao Lo:
  Discovering popular co-cited communities in blogspaces. 519-524
  
• Wanhong Xu, Xi Zhou, Lei Li:
  Inferring privacy information via social relations. 525-530
  
• Young Ae Kim, Minh-Tam Le, Hady Wirawan Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, Haifeng Liu, Jaideep Srivastava:
  Building a web of trust without explicit trust ratings. 531-536
  

Ranking in Databases (DBRank)

• Vagelis Hristidis, Ihab F. Ilyas:
  Message from the DBRANK'08 program co-chairs. 538
  
• Maya Ramanath, Kondreddi Sarath Kumar:
  A rank-rewrite framework for summarizing XML documents. 540-547
  
• Goetz Graefe:
  A general and efficient algorithm for "top" queries. 548-555
  
• Xi Zhang, Jan Chomicki:
  On the semantics and evaluation of top-k queries in probabilistic databases. 556-563
  
• Georgios John Fakas:
  Automated generation of object summaries from relational databases: A novel keyword searching paradigm. 564-567
  
• Matthias Beck, Burkhard Freitag:
  Weighted Boolean conditions for ranking. 568-571
  
• Hyountaek Yong, Jin-ha Kim, Seung-won Hwang:
  Skyline ranking for uncertain data with maybe confidence. 572-579
  
• Keke Chen, Ya Zhang, Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Gordon Sun:
  Adapting ranking functions to user preference. 580-587
  
• Sulieman Bani-Ahmad, Gultekin Özsoyoglu:
  elGiza, a research-pyramid based search tool for vertical literature digital libraries. 588-595
  
• Marc Wichterich, Christian Beecks, Thomas Seidl:
  Ranking multimedia databases via relevance feedback with history and foresight support. 596-599
  
• Emmanuel Müller, Ira Assent, Uwe Steinhausen, Thomas Seidl:
  OutRank: ranking outliers in high dimensional data. 600-603