Advances in information systems : first International Conference, ADVIS 2000, Izmir, Turkey, October 25-27, 2000 : proceedings

Data Warehouses.- Model of Summary Tables Selection for Data Warehouses.- Modeling the Behavior of OLAP Applications Using an UML Compliant Approach.- Conceptual Multidimensional Data Model Based on MetaCube.- Using Portfolio Theory for Automatically Processing Information about Data Quality in Data Warehouse Environments.- Representative Sample Data for Data Warehouse Environments.- Databases.- Classification Abstraction: An Intrinsic Element in Database Systems.- Estimating Proximity of Metric Ball Regions for Multimedia Data Indexing.- A Technique for Upgrading Database Machines Online.- Automatic Semantic Object Discovery and Mapping from Non-normalised Relational Database Systems.- Estimation of Uncertain Relations between Indeterminate Temporal Points.- Comparison of Genetic and Tabu Search Algorithms in Multiquery Optimization in Advanced Database Systems.- Computer Networks.- Interval Optimization of Correlated Data Items in Data Broadcasting.- Store and Flood: A Packet Routing Protocol for Frequently Changing Topology with Ad-Hoc Networks.- Management of Networks with End-to-End Differentiated Service QoS Capabilities.- Throughput Stability of Reliable Multicast Protocols.- On the Rearrangeability of Multistage Networks Employing Uniform Connection Pattern.- Constraint Programming.- Numeric Constraint Resolution in Logic Programming Based on Subdefinite Models.- Combining Constraints and Consistency Techniques in Knowledge-Based Expert Systems.- Declarative Modelling of Constraint Propagation Strategies.- Content-Based Image Retrieval.- Clustering of Texture Features for Content-Based Image Retrieval.- Fuzzy Content-Based Retrieval in Image Databases.- CLIMS - A System for Image Retrieval by Using Colour and Wavelet Features.- An Algorithm for Progressive Raytracing.- Fuzzy Signatures for Multimedia Databases.- Internet Technologies.- Evolutionary Prefetching and Caching in an Independent Storage Units Model.- A Video Streaming Application on the Internet.- What Do Hyperlink-Proposals and Request-Prediction Have in Common?.- The Valid Web: An XML/XSL Infrastructure for Temporal Management of Web Documents.- Application of Metadata Concepts to Discovery of Internet Resources.- Information Systems.- Evaluation of the Object-Orientation of a Multi-agent System.- Development of a Component Oriented Garment Design Library.- Using Wrapper Agents to Answer Queries in Distributed Information Systems.- An Interactive Cryptanalysis Algorithm for the Vigenere Cipher.- Mappings and Interoperability: A Meta-modelling Approach.- Reliability Index Evaluations of Integrated Software Systems (Internet) for Insufficient Software Failure and Recovery Data.- FedeRaL: A Tool for Federating Reuse Libraries over the Internet.- Multimedia Information Systems: Towards a Design Methodology Based on Spatio-Temporal Relations, Petri Nets, and ECA Rules.- Information Retrieval.- Modeling and Information Retrieval on XML-Based Dataweb.- A Rule-Based Approach to Represent Spatio-Temporal Relations in Video Data.- Factual and Temporal Imperfection.- An Agent-Based Information Retrieval System.- Artificial Intelligence.- An Intelligent Tutoring System for Student Guidance in Web-Based Courses.- An Approach to Embedding of Agents into Knowledge Representation and Processing System.