DaWaK'99 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Monday, August 30, 1999

9:00-10:00 Invited Talk:

G. Gottlob, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

On Tractable Queries and Constraints

10:00-10:30: Coffee break

SESSION 1: DATA WAREHOUSE DESIGN

10:30-12:30

Dimitri Theodoratos and Timos Sellis; Greece

Dynamic Data Warehouse Design

Vivekanand Gopalkrishnan, Qing Li, Kamalakar Karlapalem; Hong Kong

Star/Snow-flake Schema Driven Object-Relational Data Warehouse Design and Query Processing Strategies.

Jorn-Tzong Horng, Jye Lu, Gwo-Dong Chen; Taiwan

Modularized Design for Wrappers/Monitors in Data Warehouse Systems

Takao Miura, Wataru Matsumoto, Isamu Shioya; Japan

Managing Meta Objects for Design of Warehouse Data (Short paper)

12:30-14:00 LUNCH

SESSION 2: ON-LINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING

14:00-15:30

Ingo Reinfels, Juergen Goerlich and Thomas Ruf; Germany

Dealing with complex reports in OLAP applications

Qiming Chen, Umesh Dayal, Meichun Hsu; U.S.A.

OLAP-based Scalable Profiling of Customer Behavior

Francesco Buccafurri, Domenico Rosaci, Domenico Sacca; Italy

Compressed Datacubes for Fast OLAP Applications

Nikolaos Kotsis, D.R. McGregor; U.K.

Compact Representation: an approach to efficient Implementation for OLAP (Short paper)

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

SESSION 3: VIEW MAINTENANCE, SELECTION AND OPTIMISATION

16:00 - 18:00

Wookey Lee; Korea

On the Independence of Data Warehouse from Databases in Maintaining Join Views

Spyros Ligoudistianos, Dimitri Theodoratos, Timos Sellis, Yiannis Vassiliou; Greece

Heuristic algorithms for designing the Data Warehouse with SPJ Views

K. O'Gorman, D. Agrawal, A. El Abbadi; U.S.A.

The POSSE Framework for Optimizing Incremental View Maintenance at Data Warehouses

Chuan Zhang; Australia

Genetic Algorithm for Materialized View Selection in Data Warehouse Environment

Antonio Badia and Matthew Niehues; U.S.A.(Short paper)

Semantic Optimization of Sequences of Relational Queries in Decision-Support Environments

Tuesday, August 31, 1999

9:00-10:15 Invited Talk

Umeshwar Dayal, HP Labs, U.S.A.

Dynamic Data Warehousing

10:15-11:00: Coffee break

SESSION 4: MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASES

11:00 - 12:30

J. Albrecht, H. Guenzel; Germany, and W. Lehner; U.S.A.

Foundations for the Derivability of Multidimensional Aggregates

Christian Zirkelbach; Germany

Using the Real Dimension of the Data

Markus Blaschka, Carsten Sapia, Gabriele Höfling; Germany

On Schema Evolution in Multidimensional Databases"

Jukka Kiviniemi, Antoni Wolski; Finland

Lazy Aggregates for Real-Time OLAP (Short paper)

12:30-14:00: Lunch

SESSION 5: KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY

14-00 - 15:30

Elena Baralis, Giuseppe Psaila; Italy

Incremental Refinement of Mining Queries

Alaaeldin Hafez, Vijay V. Raghavan, Jitender Deogun; U.S.A.

The Item-Set Tree: A Data Structure for Data Mining

Rosa Meo; Italy

A New Approach For The Discovery of Frequent Itemsets

S.K. Gupta; India

K-means Clustering Algorithm for Categorical Attributes (Short paper)

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

SESSION 6: ASSOCIATION RULES

16:00 - 18:00

Yongqiao Xiao, Margaret H. Dunham; U.S.A.

Considering Main Memory in Mining Association Rules

Giuseppe Psaila; Italy

Discovery of Association Rule Meta-Patterns

Yuping Yang and Mukesh Singhal; U.S.A.

Fuzzy Functional Dependencies and Fuzzy Association Rules

Shiby Thomas, Sharma Chakravarthy; U.S.A.

Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Join Queries for Association Rule Mining

Wednesday, September 1, 1999

SESSION 7: INDEXING AND OBJECT SIMILARITIES

9:00 - 10:30

Christian Böhm, Hans-Peter Kriegel; Germany

Efficient Bulk Loading of Large High-Dimensional Indexes

Stefan Berchtold, Christian Böhm, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Urs Michel; Germany

Implementation of Multidimensional Index Structures for Knowledge Discovery in Relational Databases

Heikki Mannila; U.S.A., Pirjo Moen; Finland

Similarity of Event Types in Sequences

10:30-11:00: Coffee break

SESSION 8: GENERALISED ASSOCIATION RULES AND DATA & WEB MINING

11:00 - 12:30

Iko Pramudiono, Takahiko Shintani, Takayuki Tamura, Masaru Kitsuregawa; Japan

Mining Generalized Association Rule using Parallel SQL on Large Scale PC Cluster.

Jean-Francois Boulicaut, Mika Klemettinen, Heikki Mannila; Finland,

Modeling KDD Processes within the Inductive Database Framework

Sanjay Kumar Madria,; U.S.A., S. Bhowmick, Wee-Keong Ng, Ee-Peng Lim; Singapore

Research Issues in Web Data Mining

M. Covadonga Fernandez, Oscar Delgado, J. Ignacio Lopez, M. Angeles Luna, Juan F. Martinez, J.F. Borja Pardo, Jose M. Pena; Spain

DAMISYS: An Overview (Short paper)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

SESSION 9: TIME SERIES DATABASES

14:00-15:30

Roy Villafane, Kien A. Hua, Duc Tran, Basab Maulik, George Mezo; U.S.A.

Mining Interval Time Series

Silvia Massa, Massimo Paolucci, Pier Paolo Puliafito; Italy

A new modeling technique based on Markov chains to mine behavioral patterns in event based time series

Chang-Shing Perng, D. Stott Parker; U.S.A.

SQL/LPP+: a Cascading Query Language for Temporal Correlation Verification in Time Series Databases

Peter Chamoni, Steffen Stock; Germany

Temporal Structures in Data Warehousing (Short paper)

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

SESSION 10: DATA MINING APPLICATIONS AND DATA ANALYSIS

16:00-17:30

Thomas Wittmann, Johannes Ruhland; Germany

Target Group Selection in Retail Banking through Neuro-Fuzzy Data Mining and extensive pre- and postprocessing

F. Bonchi, F. Giannotti, G. Mainetto, D. Pedreschi; Italy

Using Data Mining Techniques in Fiscal Fraud Detection (Short paper)

Pedro Furtado and H. Madeira; Portugal

Analysis of Accuracy of Data Reduction Techniques

Vladimir Estivill-Castro and Ljiljana Brankovic: Australia

Data Swapping: Balancing Privacy against Precision in Mining for Logic Rules (Short paper)