Constraint Databases and Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Efficient Query Evaluation

   1. Constraint Databases, Data Structures and Efficient Query Evaluation

      • Joos Heintz, Bart Kuijpers

      Pages 1-24

3. Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data

   1. A New Shape Function Based Spatiotemporal Interpolation Method

      • Lixin Li, Youming Li, Reinhard Piltner

      Pages 25-39

   2. Moving Objects and Their Equations of Motion

      • Floris Geerts

      Pages 40-51

   3. A Triangle-Based Logic for Affine-Invariant Querying of Two-Dimensional Spatial Data

      • Sofie Haesevoets

      Pages 52-73

4. Applications

   1. Applying Constraint Databases in the Determination of Potential Minimal Conflicts to Polynomial Model-Based Diagnosis

      • Maria Teresa Gómez López, Rafael Ceballos Guerrero, Rafael Martínez Gasca, Carmelo del Valle Sevilla

      Pages 74-87

   2. Constraint Database Solutions to the Genome Map Assembly Problem

      • Viswanathan Ramanathan, Peter Revesz

      Pages 88-111

   3. Dynamic FP-Tree Based Mining of Frequent Patterns Satisfying Succinct Constraints

      • Carson Kai-Sang Leung

      Pages 112-127

5. Query Optimization

   1. Semantic Optimization of Preference Queries

      • Jan Chomicki

      Pages 128-142

   2. Constraint Processing Techniques for Improving Join Computation: A Proof of Concept

      • Anagh Lal, Berthe Y. Choueiry

      Pages 143-160

6. The Future of Constraint Databases

   1. Taking Constraints out of Constraint Databases

      • Dina Q. Goldin

      Pages 161-172

   2. Integrating Constraint and Relational Database Systems

      • Mengchu Cai

      Pages 173-180

7. Back Matter

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The ?rst International Symposium on the Applications of Constraint Databases (CDB2004) took place in Paris, France, on June 12–13, 2004, just before the ACM SIGMOD and PODS conferences. Since the publication of the paper “Constraint Query Languages” by Kan- lakis, Kuper and Revesz in 1990, the last decade has seen a growing interest in constraint database theory, query evaluation, and applications, re?ected in a variety of conferences, journals, and books. Constraint databases have proven to be extremely ?exible and adoptable in environments that relational database systems cannot serve well, such as geographic information systems and bioinf- matics. This symposium brought together people from several diverse areas all c- tributing to the practice and the application of constraint databases. It was a continuation and extension of previous workshops held in Friedrichshafen, G- many (1995), Cambridge, USA (1996), Delphi, Greece (1997), and Seattle, USA (1998) as well as of the work in the comprehensive volume “Constraint Data- ses” edited by G. Kuper, L. Libkin and J. Paredaens (2000) and the textbook “Introduction to Constraint Databases” by P. Revesz (2002). The aim of the symposium was to open new and future directions in c- straint database research; to address constraints over domains other than the reals; to contribute to a better implementation of constraint database systems, in particular of query evaluation; to address e?cient quanti?er elimination; and to describe applications of constraint databases.

• GIS
• constraint databases
• constraint processing
• data structure
• database
• databases
• geographic information systems
• indexing techniques
• optimization
• query evaluation
• query processing
• relational database
• relational databases

• Theoretical Computer Science Group, Hasselt University & Transnational University of Limburg, Belgium

  Bart Kuijpers

• University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

  Peter Revesz

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