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Proceedings. Tenth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 99

Sept. 1 1999 to Sept. 3 1999

Florence, Italy

ISBN: 0-7695-0281-4

Table of Contents

Proceedings. Tenth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 99Freely available from IEEE.pp. i-i
Message from the Program ChairsFreely available from IEEE.pp. xix
Program CommitteeFreely available from IEEE.pp. xx
Keynote Address
Query Optimization in Multidatabase Systems: Solutions and Open IssuesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 6
by Tadeusz Morzy, Zbyszko Krolikowski
Keynote Address
Optimizing Global Query Processing Plans in Heterogeneous and Distributed Multidatabase SystemsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 12
by Janusz R. Getta, Seyed M. Sedighi
Keynote Address
Adding Distribution to a Workflow Management SystemFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 17
by Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Robert Eisner, Herbert Groiss
Session 2: Distribution Strategy & Communication Control
Multimedia Prefetching Strategy for News-On-Demand ApplicationsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 24
by Ahmed Mostefaoui, Lionel Brunie
Session 2: Distribution Strategy & Communication Control
Interoperability of Event Service in Java ORB EnvironmentFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 29
by Gil Seong Na, Sang Ho Lee
Session 2: Distribution Strategy & Communication Control
An Object-Oriented Framework for the Parallel Join OperationFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 34
by Sergio Carvalho, Alberto Lerner, Sergio Lifschitz
Session 3: Application & Technology
Aggregate-Based Query Processing in a Parallel Data Warehouse ServerFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 40
by Jens Albrecht, Wolfgang Sporer
Session 3: Application & Technology
An Architecture for Modular On-Line Analytical Processing Systems: Supporting Distributed and Parallel Query Processing Using Cooperating CORBA ObjectsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 45
by Andreas Rauber, Philipp Tomsich
Session 3: Application & Technology
Hierarchical Scheduling Algorithms for Near-Line Tape LibrariesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 50
by Peter Triantafillou, Ioannis Georgiadis
Session 4: Query Optimization & Parallelization
A Parallel Algebra for Object DatabasesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 56
by Sandra de F. Mendes Sampaio, Norman W. Paton, Paul Watson, Jim Smith
Session 4: Query Optimization & Parallelization
Handling Non-Deterministic Data Availability in Parallel Query ExecutionFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 61
by Florian Waas
Session 4: Query Optimization & Parallelization
Cardinality Estimation of Distributed Join QueriesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 66
by Faïza Najjar, Yahya Slimani
Session 1: Mobile Transaction Processing
Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation in Disconnected DatabasesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 76
by Shirish Hemant, Phatak B.R. Badrinath
Session 1: Mobile Transaction Processing
Achieving Consistency in Mobile Databases through Localization in PRO-MOTIONFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 82
by Subhasish Mazumdar, Panos K. Chrysanthis
Session 1: Mobile Transaction Processing
Providing Transactional Properties for Migrating WorkflowsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 90
by Andrzej Cichocki, Marek Rusinkiewicz
Session 2: Short Presentations
Roam: A Scalable Replication System for Mobile ComputingFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 96
by David Ratner, Peter Reiher, Gerald Popek
Session 2: Short Presentations
Atomicity Implementation in Mobile ComputingFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 105
by Lars Frank
Session 3: Mobile Data Access
Causality and the Spatial-Temporal Ordering of Events in Mobile SystemsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 116
by Ravi Prakash, Roberto Baldoni
Session 3: Mobile Data Access
Dynamic Data Delivery to Mobile UsersFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 121
by Ana Paula Afonso, Francisco S. Regateiro, Mário J. Silva
Session 3: Mobile Data Access
Wireless Computational Models: Mobile Agents to the RescueFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 127
by Constantinos Spyrou, George Samaras, Paraskevas Evripidou, Evaggelia Pitoura
Session 4: Mobile Computing Perspectives ? Discussion Panel
Trends and Future of Mobile ComputingFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 136
by Andry Rakotonirainy
Keynote Address
Is Similarity Search Useful for High Dimensional Spaces?Full-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 146
by Roger Weber, Pavel Zezula
Session 1: Theory & New Techniques
A Geometric Framework for Modelling Similarity SearchFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 150
by Vladimir Pestov
Session 1: Theory & New Techniques
Similarity Search Using Multi-Space KLFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 155
by Raffaele Cappelli, Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni
Session 2: Multimedia & New Data Types
Measuring Time Series' Similarity through Large Singular Features Revealed with Wavelet TransformationFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 162
by Zbigniew R. Struzik, Arno Siebes
Session 2: Multimedia & New Data Types
Windsurf: Region-Based Image Retrieval Using WaveletsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 167
by Stefania Ardizzoni, Ilaria Bartolini, Marco Patella
Session 2: Multimedia & New Data Types
Structure-Based Similarity Search with Graph HistogramsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 174
by Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos
Session 3: Text & Heterogeneous Data
Textual Similarities Based on a Distributional ApproachFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 180
by Romaric Besançon, Martin Rajman, Jean-Cédric Chappelier
Session 3: Text & Heterogeneous Data
A Markov Random Field Approach for Querying and Reconciling Heterogeneous DatabasesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 185
by G. Bianco, V. de Antonellis, M. Melchiori, S. Castano
Session 3: Text & Heterogeneous Data
A Conceptual Indexing Method for Content-Based RetrievalFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 192
by C. Diamantini, M. Panti
Session 4: Searching in Metric Spaces
Using the Distance Distribution for Approximate Similarity Queries in High-Dimensional Metric SpacesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 200
by Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella
Session 4: Searching in Metric Spaces
Similarity Indexing by Means of a MetricFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 206
by Christian Zirkelbach
Session 4: Searching in Metric Spaces
On the Region Proximity in Metric SpacesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 211
by Pavel Zezula, Pasquale Savino, Paolo Ciaccia, Fausto Rabitti
Session 5: Classification Techniques
Mining Several Data Bases with an Ensemble of ClassifiersFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 218
by Seppo Puuronen, Vagan Terziyan, Alexander Logvinovsky
Session 5: Classification Techniques
Advanced Metrics for Class-Driven Similarity SearchFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 223
by Paolo Avesani, Enrico Blanzieri, Francesco Ricci
Session 6: Query Methods
Retrieving Distant Objects Using Tree Indices --- An Approach to Exploratory DatabasesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 230
by Hiroshi Asakura, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Shunsuke Uemura
Session 6: Query Methods
Similarity Search through Fuzzy Relational AlgebraFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 235
by Danilo Montesi, Alberto Trombetta
Session 1: Navigating the Web
Mapping and Browsing the Web in a 2D SpaceFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 248
by Mao Lin Huang, Wei Lai, Yanchun Zhang
Session 1: Navigating the Web
Designing WWW Site Map SystemsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 253
by C.J. Pilgrim, Y.K. Leung
Session 1: Navigating the Web
VISVIP: 3D Visualization of Paths through Web SitesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 259
by John Cugini, Jean Scholtz
Session 1: Navigating the Web
Visualization of WWW-Search ResultsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 264
by Thomas M. Mann
Session 1: Navigating the Web
GeoViser- Geographic Visualization of Search Engine ResultsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 269
by Jayesh Govindarajan, Matthew Ward
TeleZone [collaborative architecture experiment]Full-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 276-278
by H. Hortner, E. Berger
Session 2: Experimental Web Environments
The Limitations of Interactive Multiuser 3D Environments in The WWWFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 279
by M.A.M.S Oliveira, G Todesco, R.B. Araujo
Session 3: User Interfaces Based on Web-Technology
A Metaphor Graphics Based Representation of Digital Libraries on the World Wide Web: Using the libViewer to Make Metadata VisibleFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 286
by Andreas Rauber, Harald Bina
Session 3: User Interfaces Based on Web-Technology
Web-Based Modelling Techniques Providing Interactive Views of Geographical Data with VRMLFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 291
by Flavio Rossi, Michela Spagnuolo
Session 1: Reusing Requirements Engineering Processes
Reuse, Validation and Verification of System Development ProcessesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 300
by Peter J. Funk, Ivica Crnkovic
Session 1: Reusing Requirements Engineering Processes
Reusing Scenario Based Approaches in Requirement Engineering Methods: CREWS Method BaseFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 305
by Jolita Ralyté
Session 1: Reusing Requirements Engineering Processes
A Pattern Based Approach for Requirements EngineeringFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 310
by Mounia Fredj, Ounsa Roudiès
Session 2: Modelling the Requirements Engineering Process
A Process Model for Requirements Engineering of CCOTSFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 316
by Bernhard Deifel
Session 2: Modelling the Requirements Engineering Process
Adding a Systemic View to the Requirements Engineering ProcessesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 321
by Vito Veneziano, Sara Jones, Carol Britton
Session 3: Evaluation & Feedback from RE Experiences
Creation of an Automated Management Software Requirements Environment: A Practical ExperienceFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 328
by J. Andrade, J. Ares, O. Dieste, R. García, M. López, S. Rodríguez, L. Verde
Session 3: Evaluation & Feedback from RE Experiences
The Challenges of Requirements Engineering in Mobile Telephones IndustryFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 336
by Alessandro Maccari
Session 3: Evaluation & Feedback from RE Experiences
Supporting a Cooperative Requirements Engineering ProcessFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 340
by Ian F. Alexander
Session 3: Evaluation & Feedback from RE Experiences
Guiding the Process of Requirements Elicitation through Scenario Analysis: Results of an Empirical StudyFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 345
by Mustapha Tawbi, Camille Ben Achour, Fernando Vélez
Session 4: Ensuring the Quality of Requirements
Guidelines for Better Scenarios: Supporting Theories and EvidenceFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 352
by N.A.M. Maiden, G. Rugg, P. Patel
Session 4: Ensuring the Quality of Requirements
Reliable Requirements through the Quality GatewayFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 357
by Suzanne Robertson, James Robertson
Session 4: Ensuring the Quality of Requirements
The Process of Inconsistency Management: A Framework for UnderstandingFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 364
by Bashar Nuseibeh, Steve Easterbrook
Session 5: REP Experience Reports from European Projects
Introducing Efficient Requirements ManagementFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 370
by Bjarne Tvete
Session 5: REP Experience Reports from European Projects
The Impact on Staff of the Implementation of PVCS Technology with Particular Reference to Requirements GatheringFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 376
by Dermot Hore
Session 6: Stakeholder Involvement & Cooperative Requirements Engineering
The Labor Game MethodFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 382
by Vesa Torvinen
Session 6: Stakeholder Involvement & Cooperative Requirements Engineering
Stakeholder Identification in the Requirements Engineering ProcessFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 387
by Helen Sharp, Anthony Finkelstein, Galal Galal
Session 6: Stakeholder Involvement & Cooperative Requirements Engineering
Requirements Engineering: Problem Domain Knowledge Capture and the Deliberation Process SupportFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 392
by Sudeep Mallick, S. Krishna
Keynote Address
Making Space for Time: Issues in Space-Time Data RepresentationFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 404
by Donna J. Peuquet
Session 1: Case Studies & Benchmarking
A Spatio-Temporal Data Model for Analysing Personal BiographiesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 410
by Marius Thériault, Paul Y. Villeneuve, Anne-Marie Séguin, Yanick Aubé
Session 1: Case Studies & Benchmarking
Geo-Information for Monitoring Land Use: From Map Overlay to Object-Structured Noise ReductionFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 419
by C.J. de Zeeuw, A.K. Bregt, M.P.W. Sonneveld, J.A.T. Van den Brink
Session 1: Case Studies & Benchmarking
Oporto: A Realistic Scenario Generator for Moving ObjectsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 426
by Jean-Marc Saglio, José Moreira
Session 2: Querying
Towards a Model for Spatio-Temporal Schema SelectionFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 434
by John F. Roddick, Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Maria Rita Scalas
Session 2: Querying
Developments in Spatio-Temporal Query LanguagesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 441
by Martin Erwig, Markus Schneider
Keynote Address
CHOROCHRONOS -- Research on Spatiotemporal Database SystemsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 452
by Timos Sellis
Poster Session 1
Schema Versioning: Queries to the Generalized Temporal Database SystemFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 458
by Viviane Pereira Moreira, Nina Edelweiss
Poster Session 1
Spatiotemporal Extensions to Unified Modeling LanguageFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 460
by Rosanne Price, Bala Srinivasan, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao
Poster Session 1
Systemic Approach for Spatio-Temporal Database StructurationFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 462
by Marie-Hélène de Sède, Alexandre Moine, Patrick Marceau
Session 3: Application Analysis
A Lineage MetaData Model for the Temporal Management of a Cadastre ApplicationFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 466
by Laurent Spery, Christophe Claramunt, Thérèse Libourel
Session 3: Application Analysis
Applying Temporal Databases to Geographical Data AnalysisFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 475
by M.-C. Fauvet, S. Chardonnel, M. Dumas, P.-C. Scholl, P. Dumolard
Session 4: Temporal Databases
Reasoning with Enhanced Temporal Entity-Relationship ModelsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 482
by Alessandro Artale, Enrico Franconi
Session 4: Temporal Databases
Shifts in Detail through Temporal ZoomingFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 487
by Kathleen Hornsby, Max J. Egenhofer
Session 5: Foundations
A Relational Algebra for User-Defined PeriodicityFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 494
by Paolo Terenziani
Session 5: Foundations
Temporal Annotated Constraint Logic Programming with Multiple TheoriesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 501
by Paolo Mancarella, Alessandra Raffaetà, Franco Turini
Panel
Beyond Current Technology: The Perspective of Three EC GIS Projects Panel DiscussionFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 510
by F. Giannotti, R. Jeansoulin, Y. Theodoridis
Poster Session 2
The Appearance: A Design Pattern for Continuous Fields InterfacesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 512
by Jacier Brazzocco, Gisela Trilla, Silvia Gordillo
Poster Session 2
An Object-Oriented Model of MapsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 514
by Sima Asgari, Naoki Yonezaki
Session 1: Document Modeling
The Use of Information Retrieval Tools in Automatic Document Modeling and RecognitionFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 522
by A. Belaïd, A. David
Session 1: Document Modeling
DOCPROS: A Knowledge-Based Personal Document Management SystemFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 527
by Xien Fan, Fang Sheng, Peter A. Ng
Session 2: Document Image Analysis
Detection of Polygonal Frames in Complex Document ImagesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 534
by Stefano Messelodi, Carla Maria Modena
Session 2: Document Image Analysis
Facsimile Processing for a Messaging ServerFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 539
by Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Bibiana Cuenca
Session 2: Document Image Analysis
Desktop Scene Analysis for Document Management SystemFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 544
by Toshio Kawashima, Tadakatu Nakagawa, Takashi Miyazaki, Yoshinao Aoki
Session 2: Document Image Analysis
Optical Font Recognition for Multi-Font OCR and Document ProcessingFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 549
by Serena La Manna, Alessandro Sperduti, Anna Maria Colla
Session 3: Document Classification
Document Classification Using Layout AnalysisFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 556
by Jianying Hu, Ramanujan Kashi, Gordon Wilfong
Session 3: Document Classification
Document Analysis Techniques for the Infinite Memory Multifunction MachineFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 561
by Jonathan J. Hull, Dar-Shyang Lee, John Cullen, Peter Hart
Session 3: Document Classification
Document Comparison with a Weighted Topic HierarchyFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 566
by Alexander F. Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, Adolfo Guzman-Arenas
Session 4: Document Indexing
A Statistical Refinement Method for Word Shape Token Querying of Document ImagesFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 572
by Jerh. O'Connor, Alan F. Smeaton
Session 4: Document Indexing
SIM - A System for Semi-Automatic Indexing of Multilingual DocumentsFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 577
by Ulrich Schiel, Ianna M.S.F. de Sousa, Edberto Ferneda
Session 4: Document Indexing
A Study on Utilizing OCR Technology in Building Text DatabaseFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 582
by Sun-Hwa Hahn, Joon Ho Lee, Jin-Hyung Kim
Session 5: Document Storage & Retrieval
"STRETCH": A System for Document Storage and Retrieval by ContentFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 588
by E. Appiani, L. Boato, S. Bruzzo, A.M. Colla, M. Davite, D. Sciarra
Session 5: Document Storage & Retrieval
Indexing Semi-Structured Documents for Context-Based Information Retrieval in a Medical Information SystemFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 593
by Frederique Laforest, Anne Tchounikine
Session 5: Document Storage & Retrieval
Document Storage and Retrieval in a Neural DatabaseFull-text access may be available. Sign in or learn about subscription options.pp. 598
by P. Parodi, V. Torre, R. Brancaleon, F. Venuti, G. Musso
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