Dataspace: The Final Frontier 26th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 26, Birmingham, UK, July 7-9, 2009, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 26, held in Birmingham, UK, in July 2009. The 12 revised full papers, 2 short papers and 5 poster papers presented together with 2 keynote talks, 2 tutorial papers and summaries of 3 co-located workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data integration, warehousing and privacy; alternative data models; querying; and path queries and XML;data mining and privacy, data integration, stream and event data processing, and query processing and optimisation.

Keynote Talks.- Dataspaces: Progress and Prospects.- XtreemOS: Towards a Grid-Enabled Linux-Based Operating System.- Tutorials.- The iMeMex Dataspace Management System: Architecture, Concepts, and Lessons Learned.- Conditional Dependencies: A Principled Approach to Improving Data Quality.- Data Integration, Warehousing and Privacy.- A Prioritized Collective Selection Strategy for Schema Matching across Query Interfaces.- An Alternative Data Warehouse Reference Architectural Configuration.- A Data Privacy Taxonomy.- Alternative Data Models.- Dimensions of Dataspaces.- The Use of the Binary-Relational Model in Industry: A Practical Approach.- Hyperset Approach to Semi-structured Databases.- Querying.- Multi-Join Continuous Query Optimization: Covering the Spectrum of Linear, Acyclic, and Cyclic Queries.- An XML-Based Model for Supporting Context-Aware Query and Cache Management.- Answering Multiple-Item Queries in Data Broadcast Systems.- Path Queries and XML.- A Study of a Positive Fragment of Path Queries: Expressiveness, Normal Form, and Minimization.- Metamodel-Based Optimisation of XPath Queries.- Compacting XML Structures Using a Dynamic Labeling Scheme.- Short Papers.- Evaluating a Peer-to-Peer Database Server Based on BitTorrent.- Towards Building a Knowledge Base for Research on Andean Weaving.- Posters.- The Adaptation Model of a Runtime Adaptable DBMS.- Schema Merging Based on Semantic Mappings.- A Database System for Absorbing Conflicting and Uncertain Information from Multiple Correspondents.- Semantic Exploitation of Engineering Models: An Application to Oilfield Models.- Ontology-Based Method for Schema Matching in a Peer-to-Peer Database System.- Co-located Workshops.- Ideas in Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Databases: A Communication of the 7thInternational Workshop on Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Databases (TLAD 2009).- Research Directions in Database Architectures for the Internet of Things: A Communication of the First International Workshop on Database Architectures for the Internet of Things (DAIT 2009).- Design Challenges and Solutions: Review of the 4th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (iUBICOM 2009).