Technical Program  DEXA 2001

 

Monday, September 3, 2001

 

9.00 – 10.00                Invited Talk of DEXA Conference

 

XML Databases: Modeling and multidimensional Indexing

Prof. Rudolf Bayer, Institut für Informatik, TU-München

 

            10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break

 

Session 1 A:         Advanced Databases I

10.30 – 12.30

 

Updatability in Federated Database Systems

Mong Li LEE, Sin Yeung LEE, Tok Wang LING

Singapore

 

Designing Semi-structured Databases: A Conceptual Approach

Mong Li Lee, Sin Yeung Lee, Tok Wang Ling, Gillian Dobbie, Leonid A. Kalinichenko

Singapore

 

Meaningful Change Detection on the Web

S. Flesca, F. Furfaro, E. Masciari

Italy

 

Definition and Application of Metaclasses

Mohamed Dahchour,

Belgium

 

Session 1  B:        Information Retrieval Aspects I     

10.30 – 12.30

 

XSearch: A Neural Network Based Tool for Components Search in a Distributed Object Environment

Aluizio Haendchen Filho, Paulo Martins Engel, Hercules Antonio do Prado

Brazil

 

Information Retrieval by Possibilistic Reasoning

Churn-Jung Liau

Taiwan

 

Extracting Temporal References to Automatically Assign Document Event-Time Periods

Dolores M. Llidó, Rafael Berlanga, María José Aramburu

Spain

 

Techniques and Tools for the Temporal Analysis of Retrieved Information

Rafael Berlanga, Juan Pérez, María José Aramburu, Dolores Llidó

Spain

 

Session 1 C:         Digital Libraries 

10.30 – 12.30

 

Page Classification for Meta-data Extraction from Digital Collections

Francesca Cesarini, Marco Lastri, Simone Marinai, Giovanni Soda

Italy

 

A new Conceptual Graph Formalism Adapted for Multilingual Information Retrieval Purposes

Catherine Roussey, Sylvie Calabretto, Jean-Marie Pinon

France

 

Flexible Comparison of Conceptual Graphs

M. Montes-y-Gómez, A. Gelbukh, A. López-López, R. Baeza-Yates

Mexico

 

Personalizing Digital Libraries for Learners

Su-Shing Chen, Orthoniel Rodriguez, Chee-Yoong Choo, Yi Shang, Hongchi Shi

USA

 

Session 1 D:         User Interfaces   

10.30 – 12.30

 

Method and Interface for WordNet Enrichment with Classification Systems

Andrés Montoyo, Manuel Palomar, German Rigau

Spain

 

An Architecture for Database Marketing Systems

Sean W. M. Siqueira, Diva de S. e Silva, Elvira MŞ A. Uchôa, MŞ Helena L. B. Braz, Rubens N. Melo

Brazil

 

NChiql: The Chinese Natural Language Interface to Databases

Xiaofeng Meng, Shan Wang

China

 

            12.30 – 14.00  Lunch

 

Session 2A:          Advanced Databases II

14.00 – 15.30

 

Pattern-Based Guidelines for Coordination Engineering

Patrick Etcheverry, Philippe Lopisteguy, Pantxika Dagorret

France

 

Information Management for Material Science Applications in a Virtual Laboratory

Frenkel, H. Afsarmanesh, G. Eijkel, L.O. Hertzberger

The Netherlands

 

TREAT: A Reverse Engineering Method and Tool for Environmental Databases

Mohamed Ibrahim, Alex M. Fedorec, Keith Rennolls

UK

 

Session 2B:          Information Retrieval Aspects II

14.00 – 15.30

 

A Very Efficient Order Preserving Scalable Distributed Data Structure

Adriano Di Pasquale, Enrico Nardelli

Italy

 

Business, Culture, Politics, and Sports -- How to Find Your Way Through a Bulk of News?

On Content-Based Hierarchical Structuring and Organization of Large Document Archives

Michael Dittenbach, Andreas Rauber, Dieter Merkl

Austria

 

Feature Selection Using Association Word Mining for Classification

Su Jeong,Ko, Jung Hyen Lee

Korea

 

Session 2C:          Multimedia Databases

14.00 – 15.30

 

Efficient Feature Mining in Music Objects

Jia-Ling Koh, William D.C. Yu

Taiwan, R.O.C.

 

An Information-driven Framework for Image Mining

Ji Zhang, Wynne Hsu, Mong Li Lee

Singapore

 

A Rule-based Scheme to Make Personal Digests from Video Program Meta Data

Takako Hashimoto, Yukari Shirota, Atsushi Iizawa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Japan

 

Session 2D:          Workflow Aspects

14.00 – 15.30

 

Increasing Performance and Scalability of Workflow Systems Using Mobile Agents

Yoo, Jeong-Joon, Suh, Young-Ho, Lee, Dong-Ik

Korea

 

Anticipation to Enhance Flexibility of Workflow Execution

Daniela Grigori, François Charoy, Claude Godart,

Fance

 

Coordinating Interorganizational Workflows Based on Process-Views

Minxin Shen, Duen-Ren Liu

Taiwan

 

            15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break

 

Session 3A: Advanced Databases III

16.00– 18.30

 

Strategies for Semantic Caching

Li Luo, Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Niki Pissinou, Kia Makki

USA

 

Information Flow Control among Objects in Role-Based  Access Control Model

Keiji Izaki, Katsuya Tanaka, Makoto Takizawa

Japan

 

Object Space Partitioning in a DL-like Database and Knowledge Base Management System

Mathieu Roger, Ana Simonet, Michel Simonet

France

 

A Genome Databases Framework

Luiz Fernando Bessa Seibel, Sérgio Lifschitz

Brazil

 

Lock Downgrading: An Approach to Increase Inter-transaction Parallelism in Advanced Database Applications

Angelo Brayner

Brazil

 

Session 3B: Information Retrieval Aspects III

16.00– 18.00

 

The SH-tree: A Super Hybrid Index Structure for Multidimensional Data

Dang Tran Khanh, Josef Küng, Roland Wagner

Austria

 

Concept-based Vsual Information Management with Large Lexical Corpus

Youngchoon Park, PanKoo Kim, Forouzan Golshani

South Korea

 

Pyramidal Digest: An Efficient Model for Abstracting Text Databases

Wesley T. Chuang, D. Stott Parker

USA

 

An Adjacency Matrix Based Full-Text Indexing Method for Chinese Text Retrieval

Shuigeng Zhou, Yunfa Hu, Jiangtao Hu

China

 

Session 3C:          Active Databases

16.00– 18.30

 

Page Access Sequencing in Join Processing with Limited Buffer Space

Chen Qun, Andrew Lim, Oon Wee Chong

Singapore

 

Dynamic Constraints Derivation and Maintenance In Teradata

Ahmad Ghazal, Ramesh Bhashyam

USA

 

Improving Termination Analysis of Active Rules with Composite Events

Alain Couchot

France

 

TriGS Debugger – A Tool for Debugging Active Database Behavior

G. Kappel, G. Kramler, W. Retschitzegger

Austria

 

Tab-trees: A CASE Tool for Design of Extended Tabular Systems

Antoni Ligeza, Igor Wojnicki, Grzegorz Jacek Nalepa

Poland

 

Session 3D:          Spatial Databases

16.00– 18.30

 

A Framework for Databasing 3D Synthetic Environment Data

Roy Ladner, Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Ruth Wilson, John Breckenridge, Frank McCreedy, Kevin B. Shaw

USA

 

GOLAP - Geographical On-Line Analytical Processing

Petr Miksovsky, Zdenek Kouba

Czech Republic

 

Declustering Spatial Objects by Clustering for Parallel Disks

Hak-Cheol Kim, Ki-Joune Li

South Korea

 

A Retrieval Method for Real-time Spatial Data Browsing

Yoh Shiraishi, Yuichiro Anzai

Japan

 

Designing a Compression Engine for Multidimensional Raster Data

Andreas Dehmel

Germany

 

 

18.00       Welcome Party

 

Tuesday, September 4, 2001

 

9.00 – 10.00             Invited Talk of EC-Web Conference

 

E-Commerce - Research Issues

Hannes Werthner, University of Trento, Italy

 

            10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break

 

Session 4A:          Advanced Databases IV

10.30 – 12.30

 

DrawCAD: Using Deductive Databases in CAD

Shilpesh Katragadda, Mengchi Liu

Canada

 

Discovering Ephemeral Associations among News Topics

M. Montes-y-Gómez, A. Gelbukh, A. López-López

Mexico

 

A DT/CT/RT Framework for Integrity Enforcement based on Dependency

Mira Balaban , Steffen Jurk

Germany

 

Statistical and Feature-Based Methods for Mobile Robot Position Localization

Roman Mázl, Miroslav Kulich, Libor Preucil

Czech Republic

 

Session 4B:          Distributed Databases

10.30 – 12.30

 

Efficient View Maintenance Using Version Numbers

Eng Koon Sze, Tok Wang Ling

Singapore

 

Alpha-Partitioning Algorithm: Vertical Partitioning Based on  Fuzzy Graph

Jin Hyun Son, Myoung Ho Kim

Korea

 

Using Market Mechanisms To Control Agent Allocation In Global Information Systems

I.N. Wang, N.J. Fiddian, W.A. Gray

UK

 

Session 4C:          Web Aspects I

10.30 – 12.30

 

Query Integration for Refreshing Web Views

Haifeng Liu, Wee Keong Ng, Ee Peng Lim

Singapore

 

Sized-Adjusted Sliding Window LFU - A New Web Caching Scheme

Wen-Chi Hou, Suli Wang

 

ViDE: A Visual Data Extraction Environment for the Web

Yi Li, Wee Keong Ng, Ee Peng Lim

Singapore

 

WebSCAN: Discovering and Notifying Important Changes of Web Sites

Ma Qiang, Shinya Miyazaki, Katsumi Tanaka

Japan

 

Session 4D:          Knowledge Aspects I

10.30 – 12.00

 

Knowledge Base Maintenance through Knowledge Representation

John Debenham

Australia

 

ANKON: a Multi-Agent System for Information Gathering

Claudia Diamantini, Maurizio Panti

Italy

 

Mining Astronomical Data

Bruno Voisin

France

 

            12.30 – 14.00  Lunch

 

Session 5A:          XML

14.00 – 15.30

 

Integration of WWW Applications Based on Extensible XML Query and Processing Languages

Norihide Shinagawa, Kouichi Kuragaki, Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Japan

 

Incorporating Dimensions in XML and DTD

Manolis Gergatsoulis, Yannis Stavrakas, Dimitris Karteris

Greece

 

Keys with Upward Wildcards for XML

Wenfei Fan, Peter Schwenzer, Kun Wu

USA

 

Session 5B:          Datawarehouses

14.00 – 15.30

 

A Multidimensional Data Models Classification Framework

Alberto Abelló, José Samos, Fčlix Saltor

Spain

 

Range Top/Bottom k Queries in OLAP Sparse Data Cubes

ZhongWei Luo, Tok Wang Ling, Chuan Heng Ang, Sin Yeung Lee, Bin Cui

Singapore

 

On Formulation of Disjunctive Coupling Queries in Whoweda

Sourav, Wee Keong, Sanjay Madria

USA

 

Session 5C:          Web Aspects II

14.00 – 15.30

 

Topic-Centric Querying of Web-Based Information Resources

Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Selma Ayse Ozel, Ozgur Ulusoy, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Zehra Meral Ozsoyoglu

Turkey

 

WebCarousel: Automatic Presentation and Semantic Restructuring of Web Search Result in Mobile Environments

Akiyo Nadamoto, Hiroyuki Kondo, Katsumi Tanaka

Japan

 

Imposing Disjunctive Constraints on Inter-Document Structure

Sourav, Wee Keong, Sanjay Madria

USA

 

Session 5D:          Knowledge Aspects II

14.00 – 15.00

 

A Semi-automatic Technique for Constructing a Global Representation of Information Sources having Different Formats and Structure

Domenico Rosaci, Giorgio Terracina, Domenico Ursino,

Italia

 

Integration of Topic Maps and Databases: Towards Efficient Knowledge Representation and Directory Services

Luckeneder Thomas, Steiner Knud, Wöß Wolfram

Austria

 

            15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break

 

Session 6A:          Hypermedia

16.00– 17.00

 

A Spatial Hypermedia Framework for Position-aware Information Delivery Systems

Haruhiko Hiramatsu, Kazutoshi Sumiya, Kuniaki Uehara

Japan

 

Ariadne: an Integrated Development Method for Hypermedia

Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo, Susana Montero

Spain

 

Session 6B:          Index Aspects

16.00– 17.00

 

A General Approach to Compression of Hierarchical Indexes

Jukka Teuhola

Finland

 

Index and Data Allocation in Mobile Broadcast

Chen Qun, Andrew Lim, Zhu Yi

Singapore

 

 

19.00       Conference Dinner

 

 

Wednesday, September 5, 2001

 

9.00 – 10.00             Invited Talk of DaWaK Conference

 

Knowledge Management in Heterogeneous Data Warehouse Environments

Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA

 

            10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break

 

Session 7A:          Object-Oriented Databases I

10.30 – 12.30

 

Modeling and Transformation of Object-Oriented Conceptual Models into XML Schema

Renguo Xiao, Tharam S. Dillon, E. Chang, Ling Feng

The Netherlands

 

Adding Time to an Object-Oriented Versions Model

Mirella Moura Moro, Silvia Maria Saggiorato, Nina Edelweiss, Clesio Saraiva dos Santos

Brazil

 

Cache Conscious Clustering (C3)

Zhen He, Alonso Marquez

Australia

 

Closed External Schemas in Object Oriented Databases

Manuel Torres, José Samos

Spain

 

Session 7B:          Transaction Aspects I

10.30 – 12.30

 

Modeling and Supporting Cooperative Inter-Organizational Business Transactions

Juha Puustjärvi, Harri laine

Finland

 

O2PC-MT: A Novel Optimistic Two-Phase Commit Protocol for Mobile Transactions

Zhiming Ding, Xiaofeng Meng, Shan Wang

China

 

Quorum-based Locking Protocol in Nested Invocations of Methods

Katsuya Tanaka, Makoto Takizawa

Japan

 

Session 7C:          Query Aspects I

10.30 – 12.30

 

Applying Low-Level Query Optimization Techniques by Rewriting

Jacek Plodzien, Kazimierz Subieta

Poland

 

A Popularity-driven Caching Scheme for Meta-search Engines: An Empirical Study

Sang Ho Lee, Jin Seon Hong, Larry Kerschberg

South Korea

 

Towards the Development of Heuristics for Automatic Query Expansion

Jesus Vilares, Manuel Vilares, Miguel A. Alonso

Spain

 

Utilizing Multiple Computers in Database Query Processing and Descriptor Rule Management

Jerome Robinson, Barry G. T. Lowden, Mohammed Al Haddad

UK

 

            12.30 – 14.00  Lunch

 

Session 8A:          Object-Oriented Databases II

14.00 – 15.00

 

Estimating Objekt-Relational Database Understandability Using Structural Metrics

Coral Calero, Houari Sahraoui, Mario Piattini, Hakim Lounis

Spain

 

CDM – Collaborative Data Model for Databases Supporting Groupware Applications

Waldemar Wieczerzycki

Poland

 

Session 8B:          Transaction Aspects II

14.00 – 15.30

 

An Efficient Distributed Concurrency Control Algorithm using Two Phase Priority

Jong Sul Lee, Jae Ryong Shin, Jae Soo Yoo

Korea

 

A New Look at Timestamp Ordering Concurrency Control

Rashmi Srinivasa, Craig Williams, Paul F. Reynolds, Jr.

USA

 

Session 8C:          Query Aspects II

14.00 – 15.30

 

On the Evaluation of Path-oriented Queries in Document Databases

Yangjun Chen

Canada

 

Reasoning with Disjunctive Constrained-Tuple Generating Dependencies

Junhu Wang, Rodney Topor, Michael Maher

Australia

 

A Method for Processing Boolean Queries using a Result Cache

Jae-heon Cheong, Sang-goo Lee, Jonghoon Chun

South Korea

 

            15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break

 

18.00       Mayor’s Reception in the Old Townhall of Munich