Advances in Informatics: 8th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, Pci 2001, Nicosia, Cyprus, November 8-10, 2001 : Revised Selected Papers

by Pci 200 (2001 Nicosia, Cyprus); Manolopoulos, Yannis; Evripidou, Skevos; Kakas, Antonis C.

• ISBN13: 9783540075448
• ISBN10: 3540075445
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2001, held in Nicosia, Cyprus in November 2001. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and improved during two months of reviewing from 104 conference papers. The papers cover the areas of databases, data mining and intelligent systems, e-learning, human computer interaction, image processing, networks and systems, software and languages, and theoretical computer science.

Table of Contents

Processing Distance-Based Queries in Multidimensional Data Spaces Using R-Trees	p. 1
A Simple, Compact and Dynamic Partition Scheme Based on Co-Centric Spheres	p. 19
Design of the ERATOSTHENES OLAP Server	p. 32
Spatio-temporal SQL	p. 50
The Opsis Project: Materialized Views for Data Warehouses and the Web	p. 64
Two-Phase Commit Processing With Restructured Commit Tree	p. 82
On the Use of Matrices for Belief Revision	p. 100
Efficiently Maintaining Structural Associations of Semistructured Data	p. 118
Identification of Lead Components in Pharmaceutical Data Using Data Mining Techniques	p. 133
Adaptive Classification of Web Documents to Users Interests	p. 147
SEISMO-SURFER: A Prototype for Collecting, Querying, and Mining Seismic Data	p. 159
Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps as a Decision Support System for Political Decisions	p. 172
An Architecture for Open Learning Management Systems	p. 183
A Knowledge Based Approach on Educational Metadata Use	p. 201
Website Evaluation: A Usability-Based Perspective	p. 217
Concepts to Consider When Studying Computer-Mediated Communication and Online Learning	p. 232
Website Content Accessibility of the Cyprus Domain	p. 248
An Information Hiding Method Based on Computational Intractable Problems	p. 262
An Experimental Evaluation of a Monte-Carlo Algorithm for Singular Value Decomposition	p. 279
PROSOPO - A Face Image Synthesis System	p. 297
Communicating X-Machines: From Theory to Practice	p. 316
TOPPER: An Integrated Environment for Task Allocation and Execution of MPI Applications onto Parallel Architectures	p. 336
Communication Assist for Data Driven Multithreading	p. 351
A Framework for Mobility and QoS Provisioning in IPv6 DECT Networks	p. 368
High Level Timed Petri Net Templates for the Temporal Verification of Real-Time Multiprocessor Applications	p. 386
A Greek Morphological Lexicon and Its Exploitation by Natural Language Processing Applications	p. 401
A Comparison of Design Patterns and Roles in the Context of Behavioural Evolution	p. 420
A New Randomized Data Structure for the 11/2-dimensional Range Query Problem	p. 440
Acceptor-Definable Counting Classes	p. 453
Stability Behavior of FIFO Protocol in the Adversarial Queuing Model	p. 464
Sphendamnce: A Proof That k-Splay Fails to Achieve log[subscript k]N Behaviour	p. 480
Author Index	p. 497
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