19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '08 )

2008-09-01 [09:00 - 09:45] : Opening DEXA 2008

• 9:00 Introduction
  Mr. Francesco Profumo, Rector of Politecnico di Torino


• 9:10 Institutional Welcome
  Mr. Andrea Bairati, Regional Minister for University, Research, Innovation, Internationalization, E-Government


• 9:25 Presentation of 2008 Edition of Dexa
  Mr. Enrico Ferro, Conference Chair and Senior Researcher at ISMB


• 9:35 Conference kick-off
  Mr Roland Wagner, President of the DEXA Association



2008-09-01 [09:45 - 10:45] : DEXA Invited Talk

Session Chair : Roland R. Wagner


• Colette Rolland, Université Paris1, France
  Towards Engineering Purposeful Systems: A Requirements Engineering Perspective



2008-09-01 [11:00 - 11:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-01 [11:30 - 12:30] : Session 1B: Data Privacy

Session Chair : A Min Tjoa


• Hiding Frequent Patterns under Multiple Sensitive Thresholds
  Ya-Ping Kuo, Pai-Yu Lin, Bi-Ru Dai


• BSGI: An Effective Algorithm towards Stronger l-diversity
  Yang Ye, Chi Wang, Dapeng Lv, Yu Liu, Jianhua Feng



2008-09-01 [11:30 - 13:00] : Session 1A: Temporal, Spatial, and High Dimensional Databases I

Session Chair : Qiming Chen


• The Truncated Tornado in TMBB: A Spatiotemporal Uncertainty Model for Moving Objects (short paper)
  Shayma Alkobaisi, Petr Vojtechovský, Wan D. Bae, Seon Ho Kim, Scott T. Leutenegger


• Reordering of Location Identifiers for Indexing an RFID Tag Object Database (short paper)
  Sungwoo Ahn, Bonghee Hong


• HRG: A Graph Structure for Fast Similarity Search in Metric Spaces (short paper)
  Omar Florez, SeungJin Lim



2008-09-01 [13:00 - 14:30] : Lunch Break

2008-09-01 [14:30 - 16:00] : Session 2A: Semantic Web and Ontologies

Session Chair : Pai-Yu Lin


• Word Sense Disambiguation as the Primary Step of Ontology Integration (short paper)
  Marko Banek, Boris Vrdoljak, A Min Tjoa


• Enriching Ontology for Deep Web Search (short paper)
  Yoo Jung An, Soon Ae Chun, Kuo-chuan Huang, James Geller


• POEM: an Ontology Manager based on Existence Constraints (short paper)
  Nadira Lammari, Cédric du Mouza, Elisabeth Métais



2008-09-01 [14:30 - 16:00] : Session 2B: Query Processing

Session Chair : Ye Yang


• Extending Inconsitency-tolerant Integrity Checking by Semantic Query Optimization (short paper)
  Hendrik Decker


• On the Evaluation of Large and Sparse Graph Reachability Queries (short paper)
  Yangjun Chen


• SQL TVF Controlling Forms - Express Structured Parallel Data Intensive Computing (short paper)
  Qiming Chen, Meichun Hsu


• A Decidable Fuzzy Description Logic F-ALC(G) (short paper)
  Hailong Wang, Zongmin Ma



2008-09-01 [16:00 - 16:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-01 [16:30 - 18:00] : Session 3: Web and Information Retrieval

Session Chair : Shayma Alkobaisi


• Ranking Entities Using Comparative Relations (short paper)
  Takeshi Kurashima, Katsuji Bessho, Hiroyuki Toda, Toshio Uchiyama, Ryoji Kataoka


• Query Recommendation Using Large-scale Web Access Logs and Web Page Archive (short paper)
  Lin Li, Shingo Otsuka, Masaru Kitsuregawa


• Description Logic to Model a Domain Specific Information Retrieval System (short paper)
  Saïd Radhouani, Gilles Falquet, Jean-Pierre Chevalletinst


• Extending the Edit Distance Using Frequencies of Common Characters (short paper)
  Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad, Pierre-François Marteau



2008-09-02 [09:00 - 11:00] : Session 4: Mobile Data and Information

Session Chair : Josef K�ng


• Tracking Moving Objects in Anonymized Trajectories
  Nikolay Vyahhi, Spiridon Bakiras, Panos Kalnis, Gabriel Ghinita


• REALM: Replication of Data for a Logical Group Based MANET Database
  Anita Vallur, Le Gruenwald, Nick Hunter


• A Cache Management Method for the Mobile Music Delivery System: JAMS
  Hiroaki Shibata, Satoshi Tomisawa, Hiroki Endo, Yuka Kato


• EcoRare: An Economic incentive scheme for Efficient Rare Data Accessibility in Mobile-P2P networks
  Sanjay Madria, Anirban Mondal, Masuru Kitsuregawa



2008-09-02 [11:00 - 11:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-02 [11:30 - 13:00] : Session 5: Data and Information Streams

Session Chair : Giovanni Maria Sacco


• Identifying Similar Subsequences in Data Streams
  Machiko Toyoda, Yasushi Sakurai, Toshikazu Ichikawa


• A Tree-Based Approach for Event Prediction Using Episode Rules over Event Streams
  Chung-Wen Cho, Ying Zheng, Yi-Hung Wu, Arbee L. P. Chen


• Effective Skyline Cardinality Estimation on Data Streams
  Yang Lu, Jiakui Zhao, Lijun Chen, Bin Cui, Dongqing Yang



2008-09-02 [13:00 - 14:30] : Lunch Break

2008-09-02 [14:30 - 16:00] : Session 6: Data Mining Algorithms

Session Chair : Josef K�ng


• Detecting Current Outliers: Continuous Outlier Detection over Time-Series Data Streams
  Kozue Ishida, Hiroyuki Kitagawa


• Component Selection to Optimize Distance Function Learning in Complex Scientific Data Sets
  Aparna Varde, Stephen Bique, Elke Rundensteiner, David Brown, Jianyu Liang, Richard Sisson, Ehsan Sheybani, Brian Sayre


• Emerging Pattern Based Classification in Relational Data Mining
  Michelangelo Ceci, Annalisa Appice, Donato Malerba



2008-09-02 [16:00 - 16:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-02 [16:30 - 18:00] : Session 7:Multimedia Databases

Session Chair : Michelangelo Ceci


• Rosso Tiziano: a system for user-centered exploration and discovery in large image information bases
  Giovanni Maria Sacco


• NM-tree: Flexible Approximate Similarity Search in Metric and Non-metric Spaces
  Tomas Skopal, Jakub Lokoc


• Efficient Processing of Nearest Neighbor Queries in Parallel Multimedia Databases
  Jorge Manjarrez, Jose Martinez, Patrick Valduriez



2008-09-03 [10:00 - 11:00] : Coffee Break

2008-09-03 [11:00 - 13:00] : Session 8: Data Mining Systems, Data Warehousing, OLAP

Session Chair : Curtis Dyreson


• OLAP for Trajectories (short paper)
  Oliver Baltzer, Frank Dehne, Susanne Hambrusch, Andrew Rau-Chaplin


• A Probabilistic Approach for Computing Approximate Iceberg Cubes
  Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Filippo Furfaro, Giuseppe M. Mazzeo


• Noise Control Boundary Image Matching Using Time-Series Moving Average Transform
  Bum-Soo Kim, Yang-Sae Moon, Jinho Kim


• Approximate Range-Sum Queries over Data Cubes Using Cosine Transform
  Wen-Chi Hou, Cheng Luo, Zhewei Jiang, Feng Yan, Qiang Zhu



2008-09-03 [13:00 - 14:30] : Lunch Break

2008-09-03 [14:30 - 16:00] : Session 9: Temporal, Spatial, and High Dimensional Databases II

Session Chair : Wenxin Liang


• Querying multigranular spatio-temporal objects
  Elena Camossi, Michela Bertolotto, Elisa Bertino


• Space-Partitioning-Based Bulk-Loading for the NSP-Tree in Non-ordered Discrete Data Spaces
  Gang Qian, Hyun-Jeong Seok, Qiang Zhu, Sakti Pramanik


• Efficient Updates for Continuous Skyline Computations
  Yuling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, Wei-Shinn Ku



2008-09-03 [16:00 - 16:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-03 [16:30 - 18:00] : Session 10: Data and Information Semantics

Session Chair : Alfredo Cuzzocrea


• Semantic Decision Tables: Self-Organizing and Reorganizable Decision Tables
  Yan Tang, Robert Meersman


• Translating SQL Applications to the Semantic Web
  Syed Tirmizi, Juan Sequeda, Daniel Miranker


• AN AGENT-BASED FRAMEWORK BASED ON SIGNAL CONCEPTS FOR HIGHLIGHTING THE MULTIMEDIA SEMANTIC CONTENT
  Mohammed Belkhatir



2008-09-04 [09:00 - 11:00] : Session 11: XML Databases I

Session Chair : Hanady Abdulsalam


• Supporting Proscriptive Metadata in an XML DBMS
  Hao Jin, Curtis Dyreson


• XPath rewriting using multiple views
  Junhu Wang, Jeffrey Xu Yu


• Superimposed Code-based Indexing Method for Extracting MCTs from XML Documents
  Wenxin Liang, Takeshi Miki, Haruo Yokota


• Fast matching of twig patterns
  Jiang Li, Junhu Wang



2008-09-04 [11:00 - 11:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-04 [11:30 - 13:00] : Session 12: XML Databases II

Session Chair : Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis


• XML Filtering Using Dynamic Hierarchical Clustering of User Profiles
  Panagiotis Antonellis, Christos Makris


• Person Retrieval on XML Documents by Coreference Analysis Utilizing Structural Features
  Yumi Yonei, Mizuho Iwaihara, Masatoshi Yoshikawa


• HFilter: Hybrid Finite Automaton Based Stream Filtering for Deep and Recursive XML Data
  Weiwei Sun, Yongrui Qin, Ping Yu, Zhuoyao Zhang, Zhenying He



2008-09-04 [13:00 - 14:30] : Lunch Break

2008-09-04 [14:30 - 16:00] : Session 13: Query Processing and Optimisation

Session Chair : Frank Dehne


• Read-Optimized, Cache-Conscious, Page Layouts for Temporal Relational Data
  khaled jouini, Geneviève jomier, Patrick kaboré


• Exploiting Interactions among Query Rewrite Rules in the Teradata DBMS
  Ahmad Ghazal, Dawit Seid, Alain Crolotte, Bill McKenna


• Optimal Preference Elicitation for Skyline Queries over Categorical Domains
  Jongwuk Lee, Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang, Joachim Selke, Wolf-Tilo Balke



2008-09-04 [16:00 - 16:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-04 [16:30 - 18:00] : Session 14A: Data and Information Streams

Session Chair : Ahmad Ghazal


• Categorized Sliding Window in Streaming Data Management Systems (short paper)
  Marios Pappas, Josep-L Larriba-Pey, Pedro Trancoso


• Time to the Rescue - Supporting Temporal Reasoning in the Rete Algorithm for Complex Event Processing (short paper)
  Karen Walzer, Matthias Groch, Tino Breddin


• Classifying Evolving Data Streams Using Dynamic Streaming Random Forests (short paper)
  Hanady Abdulsalam, David B. Skillicorn, Patrick Martin


• A Free Terrain Model for Trajectory K-Anonymity (short paper)
  Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Vassilios S. Verykios



2008-09-04 [16:30 - 18:00] : Session 14B: Potpourri

Session Chair : Sharma Chakravarthy


• On a Parameterized Antidivision Operator for Database Flexible Querying (short paper)
  Patrick Bosc, Olivier Pivert


• Providing Explanations for Database Schema Validation (short paper)
  Guillem Rull, Carles Farré, Ernest Teniente, Toni Urpí


• Temporal Conformance of Federated Choreographies (short paper)
  Johann Eder, Amirreza Tahamtan


• Relational Database Migration: A Perspective (short paper)
  Abdelsalam Maatuk , Akhtar Ali , Nick Rossiter



2008-09-05 [09:30 - 11:00] : Session 15A: Data Mining

Session Chair : Lena Strömbäck


• DB-FSG: An SQL-Based approach for Frequent Subgraph Mining (short paper)
  Sharma Chakravarthy, Subhesh Pradhan


• An Efficient Bound in Finding Aggregate Nearest Neighbor (short paper)
  Sansarkhuu Namnandorj, Hanxiong Chen, Kazutaka Furuse, Nobuo Ohbo


• A Grid-based Multi-Relational Approach to Process Mining (short paper)
  Antonio Turi, Annalisa Appice, Michelangelo Ceci, Donato Malerba


• Extraction of Opposite Sentiments in Classified Free Format Text Reviews (short paper)
  Dong (Haoyuan) Li, Anne Laurent, Mathieu Roche, Pascal Poncelet



2008-09-05 [10:00 - 11:00] : Session 15B: XML Databases

Session Chair : Piotr Kolaczkowski


• Navigational Path Expressions on XML Schemas (short paper)
  Federico Cavalieri, Giovanna Guerrini, Marco Mesiti


• Transforming tree patterns under DTDs for query containment test (short paper)
  Junhu Wang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chengfei Liu, Rui Zhou


• XSelMark: A Micro-Benchmark for Selectivity Estimation Approaches of XML Queries (short paper)
  Sherif Sakr



2008-09-05 [11:00 - 11:30] : Coffee Break

2008-09-05 [11:30 - 13:00] : Session 16A: Applications of Database, Information, and Decision Support Systems

Session Chair : Marco Mesiti


• A Method for Semi-Automatic Standard Integration in Systems Biology (short paper)
  Dagmar Köhn, Lena Strömbäck


• FDBMS Application for a Survey on Educational Performance (short paper)
  Livia Borjas, Alejandro Fernández, Jorge Ortiz, Leonid Tineo


• Hierarchy Encoding with Multiple Genes (short paper)
  Martin van Bommel, Ping Wang


• Knowledge Mining for the Business Analyst (short paper)
  Themis Palpanas, Jakka Sairamesh



2008-09-05 [11:30 - 13:00] : Session 16B: Optimisation and Performance

Session Chair : Lucineia Heloisa Thom


• Controlling The Behaviour of Database Servers With 2PAC And DiffServ
  Luís Orleans, Geraldo Zimbrão, Pedro Furtado


• Compressing Very Large Database Workloads for Continuous Online Index Selection
  Piotr Kolaczkowski


• Escaping a Dominance Region at Minimum Cost (short paper)
  Youngdae Kim, Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang



2008-09-05 [13:00 - 14:30] : Lunch Break

2008-09-05 [14:30 - 16:00] : Session 17: Schema, Process and Knowledge Modelling and Evolution

Session Chair : Joachim Selke


• Evolutionary Clustering in Description Logics: Controlling Concept Formation and Drift in Ontologies
  Floriana Esposito, Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato


• Model-Driven, View-Based Evolution of Relational Databases
  Eladio Domínguez, Jorge Lloret, Ángel Luis Rubio , María Antonia Zapata


• Inventing Less, Reusing More, and Adding Intelligence to Business Process Modeling
  Lucineia Heloisa Thom, Manfred Reichert, Carolina Ming Chiao, Cirano Iochpe, Guillermo Nudelman Hess