Web-Age Information Management : First International Conference, WAIM 2000, Shanghai, China, June 21-23, 2000 Proceedings

by Waim 200 (2000 Shanghai, China); Zhou, Aoying

• ISBN13: 9783540676270
• ISBN10: 3540676279
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2000, held in Shanghai, China, in June 2000.The 27 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The book is organized in sections on XML: queries and DTD, object-orientation: modeling and implementation, association rules: mining and applications, enterprise information systems and e-commerce, the Web: document management and retrieval, spatial and temporal databases, data warehousing, information retrieval, semi-structured data, agents, rough sets, and learning.

Table of Contents

Invited Talks
Visual Data Mining for Business Intelligence Applications	p. 3
Parallel Data Mining on Large Scale PC Cluster	p. 15
XML: DTD and Queries
XML Query Languages in Practice : An Evaluation	p. 29
A Two-Level Method for Clustering DTDs	p. 41
XML Queries via SQL	p. 53
Inferring DTD to Facilitate User-Oriented XML Document Query	p. 61
O-O: Modeling and Implementation
An Object Oriented Multidimensional Data Model for OLAP	p. 69
Applying Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Techniques to the Design of Multidimensional Databases and OLAP Applications	p. 83
An Optimal Locking Scheme in Object-Oriented Database Systems	p. 95
Association Rules: Mining and Application
An Efficient Distributed Algorithm for Computing Association Rules	p. 109
Mining Association Rules with Negative Items Using Interest Measure	p. 121
Probabilistic Approach to Association Rules in Incomplete Databases	p. 133
Discovering Sequential Patterns from Non-Uniform Databases	p. 139
An Effective Approach to Mining Exception Class Association Rules	p. 145
Enterprise Information Systems and E-Commerce
Integrated Data Management and Enterprise Models	p. 153
A Virtual Private Network for Virtual Enterprise Information Systems	p. 165
Adaptive Online Retail Web Site Based on Hidden Markov Model	p. 177
A Protocol for Untraceable Electronic Cash	p. 189
The Web: Document Management and Retrieval
Materializing Web Data for OLAP and DSS	p. 201
Hierarchically Classifying Chinese Web Documents without Dictionary Support and Segmentation Procedure	p. 215
Web Clustering and Association Rule Discovery for Web Broadcast	p. 227
A Non-Euclidean Model for Web Retrieval	p. 233
Advanced Replacement Policies for WWW Caching	p. 239
Spatial and Temporal Databases
Extending Rectangle Join Algorithms for Rectilinear Polygons	p. 247
HMT: Modeling Temporal Aspects in Hypermedia Applications	p. 259
Hana Tree: A Dynamic and Robust Access Method for Spatial Data Handling	p. 271
MADGIS: A New Architecture for Distributed GIS under Internet Environment	p. 283
Data Warehousing
Global View Maintenance by Using Inference Relationship among Views	p. 291
Maintaining Materialized Views for Data Warehouses with Multiple Remote Sources	p. 299
Using Loglinear Models to Compress Datacube	p. 311
Materialized View Selection in a Data Warehouse	p. 323
Information Retrieval
ExSight: Highly Accurate Object Based Image Retrieval System Enhanced by Redundant Object Extraction	p. 331
Applying Anaphora Resolution to Question Answering and Information Retrieval Systems	p. 344
MB+Tree A Dynamically Updatable Metric Index for Similarity Searches	p. 356
An Information Store and Retrieval Facility on CORBA	p. 374
Retrieving Content Directly from Antique Book Images	p. 380
Semi-Structured Data
Schema Based Data Storage and Query Optimization for Semi-structured Data	p. 389
Automatic Wrapper Generation for Web Search Engines	p. 399
Multi-level Schema Extraction for Heterogenous Semi-structured Data	p. 411
Agent, Rough Set and Learning
Rough Set Based WebCT Learning	p. 425
MultiAgent Systems for Coalition Support	p. 437
A Fast Globally Supervised Learning Algorithm for Gaussian Mixture Models	p. 449
Optimizing Classifiers by Genetic Algorithms	p. 455
Author Index	p. 461
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