Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 7th East European Conference, ADBIS 2003, Dresden, Germany, September 3-6, 2003, Proceedings

Invited Lectures.- Semantic Web Services: The Future of Integration!.- Bioinformatics Databases: State of the Art and Research Perspectives.- Compositional Development.- Multirepresentation in Ontologies.- Extension of Compositional Information Systems Development for the Web Services Platform.- Domain Based Identification and Modelling of Business Component Applications.- Advanced Query Processing.- An Optimal Divide-Conquer Algorithm for 2D Skyline Queries.- Hierarchical Data Cube for Range Queries and Dynamic Updates.- Evaluation of Common Counting Method for Concurrent Data Mining Queries.- Transactions.- taDOM: A Tailored Synchronization Concept with Tunable Lock Granularity for the DOM API.- Client-Side Dynamic Preprocessing of Transactions.- Retrieval from the Web.- Using Common Schemas for Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Web Catalogs.- UCYMICRA: Distributed Indexing of the Web Using Migrating Crawlers.- Indexing Techniques.- Revisiting M-Tree Building Principles.- Compressing Large Signature Trees.- Active Databases and Workflows.- A Conceptual Graphs Approach for Business Rules Modeling.- SnoopIB: Interval-Based Event Specification and Detection for Active Databases.- Reasoning on Workflow Executions.- Complex Value Storage.- Optimization of Storage Structures of Complex Types in Object-Relational Database Systems.- Hierarchical Bitmap Index: An Efficient and Scalable Indexing Technique for Set-Valued Attributes.- Data Mining.- Efficient Monitoring of Patterns in Data Mining Environments.- FCBI: An Efficient User-Friendly Classifier Using Fuzzy Implication Table.- Dynamic Integration of Classifiers in the Space of Principal Components.- Formal Query Semantics.- Formal Semantics of the ODMG 3.0 Object Query Language.- Spatial Aspects of IS.- Similar Sub-trajectory Retrieval for Moving Objects in Spatio-temporal Databases.- Distance Join Queries of Multiple Inputs in Spatial Databases.- XML Processing.- Rule-Based Generation of XML DTDs from UML Class Diagrams.- More Functional Dependencies for XML.- Multimedia Data Management.- Towards Collaborative Video Authoring.- Information Integration.- Updatable XML Views.- Query Containment.- Testing Containment of XPath Expressions in Order to Reduce the Data Transfer to Mobile Clients.- Query Containment with Negated IDB Predicates.