Advances in Information Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Talks

   1. Processing Preference Queries in Standard Database Systems

      • Paolo Ciaccia

      Pages 1-12

   2. Turkish Information Retrieval: Past Changes Future

      • Fazli Can

      Pages 13-22

   3. From On-Campus Project Organised Problem Based Learning to Facilitated Work Based Learning in Industry

      • Flemming K. Fink

      Pages 23-33

   4. Innovative Information and Knowledge Infrastructures – How Do I Find What I Need?

      • Wolfgang Nejdl

      Pages 34-37

3. Information Representation and Exchange

   1. XMask: An Enabled XML Management System

      • Moad Maghaydah, Mehmet A. Orgun

      Pages 38-47

   2. Validation of XML Documents: From UML Models to XML Schemas and XSLT Stylesheets

      • Eladio Domínguez, Jorge Lloret, Ángel L. Rubio, María A. Zapata

      Pages 48-59

   3. A Novel Clustering-Based Approach to Schema Matching

      • Jin Pei, Jun Hong, David Bell

      Pages 60-69

   4. BFPkNN: An Efficient k-Nearest-Neighbor Search Algorithm for Historical Moving Object Trajectories

      • Yunjun Gao, Chun Li, Gencai Chen, Ling Chen, Xianta Jiang, Chun Chen

      Pages 70-79

   5. Three-Level Object-Oriented Database Architecture Based on Virtual Updateable Views

      • Piotr Habela, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz Subieta

      Pages 80-89

   6. AEC Algorithm: A Heuristic Approach to Calculating Density-Based Clustering Eps Parameter

      • Marcin Gorawski, Rafal Malczok

      Pages 90-99

4. Databases and Datawarehouses

   1. GeoCube, a Multidimensional Model and Navigation Operators Handling Complex Measures: Application in Spatial OLAP

      • Sandro Bimonte, Anne Tchounikine, Maryvonne Miquel

      Pages 100-109

   2. Hybrid Index for Spatio-temporal OLAP Operations

      • Byeong-Seob You, Dong-Wook Lee, Sang-Hun Eo, Jae-Dong Lee, Hae-Young Bae

      Pages 110-118

   3. Managing Evolution of Data Warehouses by Means of Nested Transactions

      • Bartosz Bebel, Zbyszko Królikowski, Robert Wrembel

      Pages 119-128

   4. Optimization of Queries Invoking Views by Query Tail Absorption

      • Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz Subieta

      Pages 129-138

   5. Checking Violation Tolerance of Approaches to Database Integrity

      • Hendrik Decker, Davide Martinenghi

      Pages 139-148

   6. A Metadata Repository Model to Integrate Heterogeneous Databases of Hardware Dependent Legacy Systems

      • Ahmet Tümay, Kıvanç Dinçer, Özgür Yürekten, Müberra Sungur, Ahmet Dikici, Yusuf Tambağ

      Pages 149-157

5. Semantic Web and Ontologies

   1. Semantic Information Retrieval on the Web

      • Ebru Sezer, Adnan Yazıcı, Ünal Yarımağan

      Pages 158-167

   2. Contextual Ontologies

      • Djamal Benslimane, Ahmed Arara, Gilles Falquet, Zakaria Maamar, Philippe Thiran, Faiez Gargouri

      Pages 168-176

   3. Matchmaking of Semantic Web Services Using Semantic-Distance Information

      • Mehmet Şenvar, Ayşe Bener

      Pages 177-186

This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Advances in Information Systems (ADVIS) held in Izmir, Turkey, October, 18-20, 2006. This is the fourth conference dedicated to the memory of Professor Esen Ozkarahan, who was one of the pioneers of database machine research and a founder of database systems in Turkey. The main goal of the conference is to bring together researchers from all around the world working in di?erent areas of information systems to share new ideas and represent their latest results. This time we received 120 submissions from 27 countries.The Program Committee selected 38 papers for presentation at the conference. The invited and accepted contributions covered the main research topics - lated to information systems such as information representation and exchange, databases and datawarehouses, Semantic Web and ontologies, data mining and knowledge discovery, information retrieval and knowledge engineering, archit- ture of information systems, and distributed and wireless information systems. All these topics were discussed in detail during the conference. The success of the conference was dependent on the hard work of a large numberofpeople.WegratefullyacknowledgethemembersoftheProgramC- mittee, who helped to coordinate the process of refereeing all submitted papers. We also thank all the other specialists and our additional referees, who reviewed the papers.

• data mining
• database
• databases
• information retrieval
• information system
• knowledge discovery
• knowledge representation
• ontology
• semantic web

• Dokuz Eylül University, lzmir, Turkey

  Tatyana Yakhno

• University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Erich J. Neuhold

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