Advances in Databases and Information Systems 10th East European Conference, ADBIS 2006, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 3-7, 2006, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2006, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 2006.
The 29 high-quality papers were selected in a rigorous reviewing process out of 126 submissions. The papers address a wide range of hot research issues and are organized in topical sections on: XML databases and semantic web, materialized views, database modelling, web information systems and middleware, query processing and indexing, data mining and clustering, and modelling and design issues.

Invited Papers.- Data Ring: Let Us Turn the Net into a Database!.- Future Data Management: “It’s Nothing Business; It’s Just Personal.”.- Scalable Similarity Search in Computer Networks.- XML Databases and Semantic Web.- An XML Algebra for XQuery.- Satisfiability-Test, Rewriting and Refinement of Users’ XPath Queries According to XML Schema Definitions.- X-Warehousing: An XML-Based Approach for Warehousing Complex Data.- SDQNET: Semantic Distributed Querying in Loosely Coupled Data Sources.- Materialized Views.- Multi-source Materialized Views Maintenance: Multi-level Views.- Clustering-Based Materialized View Selection in Data Warehouses.- Non-blocking Materialized View Creation and Transformation of Schemas.- Database Modelling.- Relationship Design Using Spreadsheet Reasoning for Sets of Functional Dependencies.- Modeling and Storing Context-Aware Preferences.- An Integrated Framework for Meta Modeling.- Implementation of UNIDOOR, a Deductive Object-Oriented Database System.- Web Information Systems and Middleware.- Preloading Browsers for Optimizing Automatic Access to Hidden Web: A Ranking-Based Repository Solution.- A Middleware-Based Approach to Database Caching.- Integrating Caching Techniques on a Content Distribution Network.- Interactive Discovery and Composition of Complex Web Services.- Query Processing and Indexing.- Efficient Processing SAPE Queries Using the Dynamic Labelling Structural Indexes.- ICB-Index: A New Indexing Technique for Continuous Time Sequences.- Multiple k Nearest Neighbor Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases.- Searching for Similar Trajectories on Road Networks Using Spatio-temporal Similarity.- Efficient and Coordinated Checkpointing for Reliable Distributed Data Stream Management.- Data Mining and Clustering.-Towards Automatic Eps Calculation in Density-Based Clustering.- Symbolic Music Genre Classification Based on Note Pitch and Duration.- PPPA: Push and Pull Pedigree Analyzer for Large and Complex Pedigree Databases.- Discovering Emerging Topics in Unlabelled Text Collections.- Modelling and Desing Issues.- Computational Database Technology Applied to Option Pricing Via Finite Differences.- A Framework for Merging, Repairing and Querying Inconsistent Databases.- An On-Line Reorganization Framework for SAN File Systems.- Towards Multimedia Fragmentation.- Content Is Capricious: A Case for Dynamic System Generation.