Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems VI

1. Front Matter

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2. Combination Skyline Queries

   • Xi Guo, Chuan Xiao, Yoshiharu Ishikawa

   Pages 1-30

3. Comparing and Evaluating Approaches to Probabilistic Reasoning: Theory, Implementation, and Applications

   • Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Christoph Beierle, Marc Finthammer, Matthias Thimm

   Pages 31-75

4. The Science and Art of Conceptual Modelling

   • Bernhard Thalheim

   Pages 76-105

5. Predictive Line Queries for Traffic Prediction

   • Lasanthi Heendaliya, Dan Lin, Ali Hurson

   Pages 106-133

6. A DHT-Based System for the Management of Loosely Structured, Multidimensional Data

   • Athanasia Asiki, Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Nectarios Koziris

   Pages 134-166

7. A Grammarware for the Incremental Validation of Integrity Constraints on XML Documents under Multiple Updates

   • Béatrice Bouchou, Mirian Halfeld-Ferrari, Maria Adriana Vidigal Lima

   Pages 167-197

8. Database Support for Enabling Data-Discovery Queries over Semantically-Annotated Observational Data

   • Huiping Cao, Shawn Bowers, Mark P. Schildhauer

   Pages 198-228

9. Probabilistically Ranking Web Article Quality Based on Evolution Patterns

   • Jingyu Han, Kejia Chen, Dawei Jiang

   Pages 229-258

10. Back Matter

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The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connected through networks has led to an evolution of data- and knowledge-management systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications providing high scalability. Current decentralized systems still focus on data and knowledge as their main resource. Feasibility of these systems relies basically on P2P (peer-to-peer) techniques and the support of agent systems with scaling and decentralized control. Synergy between grids, P2P systems, and agent technologies is the key to data- and knowledge-centered systems in large-scale environments. This, the sixth issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains eight extended and revised versions of papers selected from those presented at DEXA 2011. Topics covered include skyline queries, probabilistic logics and reasoning, theory of conceptual modeling, prediction in networks of moving objects, validation of XML integrity constraints, management of loosely structured multi-dimensional data, data discovery in the presence of annotations, and quality ranking for Web articles.

• data objects
• data semantics
• distributed query processing
• relational learning
• traffic jam prediction

• Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse Cedex, France

  Abdelkader Hameurlain

• FAW - Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, University of Linz, Linz, Austria

  Josef Küng

• FAW, University of Linz, Linz, Austria

  Roland Wagner

• Marriott School, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA

  Stephen W. Liddle

• Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria

  Klaus-Dieter Schewe

• School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  Xiaofang Zhou

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