Advances in Databases and Information Systems : Third East European Conference, ADBIS'99, Maribor, Slovenia, September 13-16, 1999, Proceedings

by Adbis'9 (1999 Maribor, Slovenia); Rozman, Ivan; Welzer, Tatjana; Goos, G.; Hartmanis, J.

• ISBN13: 9783540664857
• ISBN10: 3540664858
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS'99, held in Maribor, Slovenia in September 1999. The 26 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval and multimedia, integration, transactions, index structures, agent technology, data mining, data modeling, incomplete data, queries, database theory, and performance issues.

Table of Contents

Trust for Electronic Commerce Transactions	p. 1
A Family of the ODMG Object Models	p. 14
Consistent Handling of Integrity Constraints and Extensional Assertions for Schema Integration	p. 31
Deriving Type Conflicts and Object Cluster Similarities in Database Schemes by an Automatic and Semantic Approach	p. 46
A Model for Querying Annotated Documents	p. 61
Word-Based Compression Methods and Indexing for Text Retrieval Systems	p. 75
Processing of Spatiotemporal Queries in Image Databases	p. 85
On the Correctness of Virtual Partition Algorithm in a Nested Transaction Environment	p. 98
Computing Rules for Detecting Contradictory Transaction Termination Dependencies	p. 113
A New Class Hierarchy Concurrency Control Technique in Object-Oriented Database Systems	p. 128
The G[superscript r]Tree: The Use of Active Regions in G-Trees	p. 141
S-Tree: An Improved S[superscript +]-Tree for Coloured Images	p. 156
Workflow Management System Using Mobile Agents	p. 168
Pattern-Oriented Hierarchical Clustering	p. 179
Data Mining in a Multi-dimensional Environment	p. 191
Arbiter Meta-learning with Dynamic Selection of Classifiers and Its Experimental Investigation	p. 205
The Notion of 'Classes of a Path' in ER Schemas	p. 218
Evaluation of Data Modeling	p. 232
Organizational Modeling for Efficient Specification of Information Security Requirements	p. 247
A Closed Approach to Vague Collections in Partly Inaccessible Distributed Databases	p. 261
Infinite Relations in Paraconsistent Databases	p. 275
Query Rewriting and Search in CROQUE	p. 288
Object Query Optimization in the Stack-Based Approach	p. 303
Compositional Specification Calculus for Information Systems Development	p. 317
The Impact of Using Class Inheritance in a Distributed Information System	p. 332
Performance Assessment Framework for Distributed Object Architectures	p. 349
Efficient Use of Signatures in Object-Oriented Database Systems	p. 367
Author Index	p. 383
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