Databases in Networked Information Systems 4th International Workshop, DNIS 2005, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, March 28-30, 2005, Proceedings

PThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems, DNIS 2005, held in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan in March 2005./PPThe 17 revised full papers presented together with 8 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on information interchange and management systems, Web data management systems, networked information systems applications, and networked information systems implementations./P

Information Interchange and Management Systems.- Predictive Business Operations Management.- Conversation Quantization for Conversational Knowledge Process.- Wrapper Generation for Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites.- Efficiently Coding and Querying XML Document.- An Interface for Web Based Access to Dynamic Contents.- HID: An Efficient Path Index for Complex XML Collections with Arbitrary Links.- Web Data Management Systems.- Integration of Virtual Reality and Database System Techniques.- From Multimedia to UniversalMedia.- The Multimedia Semantic Web.- Storing and Retrieving Multimedia Web Notes.- A Searching Method Based on Problem Description and Algorithmic Features.- Augmenting the Power of the Various Versions of LSI Used in Document Retrieval.- Networked Information Systems: Applications.- Networked Mining of Atomic and Molecular Data from Electronic Journal Databases on the Internet.- Development of a Data Mining Application for Huge Scale Earth Environmental Data Archives.- Design of Automation Systems for Web Based Courseware Using XML and XSLT.- Towards Open Education Through Distributed and Networked Information Systems – An Experience-Based Approach.- Exploring Web Logs with Coordinated OLAP Dimension Hierarchies.- Networked Information Systems: Implementations.- Policies, Models, and Languages for Access Control.- Modelling Peer-to-Peer Data Networks Under Complex System Theory.- Attribute-Based Access to Distributed Data over P2P Networks.- Governing the Contract Lifecycle: A Framework for Sequential Configuration of Loosely-Coupled Systems.- GridFS: Ensuring High-Speed Data Transfer Using Massively Parallel I/O.- Data Management Systems.- Improving Customer Experience via Text Mining.- A Distributed Algorithm for Outlier Detection in aLarge Database.- An Improved Approach to Extract Document Summaries Based on Popularity.