Databases and Information Systems II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Distributed Databases

   1. Fragmentation of Object Oriented and Semi-Structured Data

      • Klaus-Dieter Schewe

      Pages 1-14

   2. Value Reconciliation in Mediators of Heterogeneous Information Collections Applying Well-Structured Context Specifications

      • Dmitry O. Briukhov, Leonid A. Kalinichenko, Nikolay A. Skvortsov, Sergey A. Stupnikov

      Pages 15-28

   3. Reactive Load Balancing in Distributed Database Management Systems

      • Josep M. Muixi, August Climent, Silvia Canals

      Pages 29-41

   4. Undeniable Database Queries

      • Ahto Buldas, Meelis Roos, Jan Willemson

      Pages 43-54

   5. Tolap

      • Olaf Herden

      Pages 55-66

3. XML and Databases

   1. XML Data Warehouse: Modelling And Querying

      • Jaroslav Pokorny

      Pages 67-80

   2. The XML Query Execution Engine (XEE)

      • Dieter Scheffner, Johann-Christoph Freytag

      Pages 81-94

   3. Offering User Profile as an XML Web Service

      • Anne Marie Hartvigsen, Tore E. Jønvik, Do van Thanh

      Pages 95-108

4. Information Systems Development

   1. Shared Conceptualisation of Business Systems, Information Systems and Supporting Software

      • Albertas Caplinskas, Audrone Lupeikiene, Olegas Vasilecas

      Pages 109-120

   2. Concept of Intelligent Enterprise Memory for Integration of Two Approaches to Knowledge Management

      • Janis Grundspenkis

      Pages 121-134

   3. Knowledge Representation in Advisory Information System of Crime Investigation Domain

      • Dale Dzemydiene, Egle Kazemikaitiene, Rimantas Petrauskas

      Pages 135-147

5. Information Systems and Software Engineering

   1. Semantics for Managing Systems in Heterogeneous and Distributed Environment

      • Guntis Arnicans, Girts Karnitis

      Pages 149-160

   2. Ontological Intermediation between Business Process Models and Software Components

      • Thorsten Teschke

      Pages 161-173

   3. Extended Use of a Traceability Tool Within Software Development Project

      • Martins Gills, Mihails Bogdanovs

      Pages 175-186

   4. Measurements and Risks Based Method to Support Software Development Process Planning

      • Baiba Apine

      Pages 187-198

   5. Reduction of UML Class Diagrams

      • Girts Linde

      Pages 199-208

6. Mobile Computing, Databases, and Agents

   1. Incorporating Mobility into an Agent Interoperability-Based Environment

      • Mihhail Matskin, Arkady Zaslavsky

      Pages 209-224

   2. An Extensible Storage Manager for Mobile DBMS

      • Erik Buchmann, Hagen Höpfner, Kai-Uwe Sattler

      Pages 225-238

   3. Towards Multi-Agent Models of Domain-Specific Languages

      • Merik Meriste, Tõnis Kelder, Jüri Helekivi

      Pages 239-251

Databases and database systems in particular, are considered as kerneIs of any Information System (IS). The rapid growth of the web on the Internet has dramatically increased the use of semi-structured data and the need to store and retrieve such data in a database. The database community quickly reacted to these new requirements by providing models for semi-structured data and by integrating database research to XML web services and mobile computing. On the other hand, IS community who never than before faces problems of IS development is seeking for new approaches to IS design. Ontology­ based approaches are gaining popularity, because of a need for shared conceptualisation by different stakeholders of IS development teams. Many web-based IS would fail without domain ontologies to capture meaning of terms in their web interfaces. This volume contains revised versions of 24 best papers presented at the th 5 International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (BalticDB&IS'2002). The conference papers present original research results in the novel fields of IS and databases such as web IS, XML and databases, data mining and knowledge management, mobile agents and databases, and UML based IS development methodologies. The book's intended readers are researchers and practitioners who are interested in advanced topics on databases and IS.

• DBMS
• OLAP
• data mining
• data warehouse
• database
• filtering
• information
• information system
• knowledge management
• knowledge representation
• ontology
• organization
• pattern mining
• semantics

• Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn Technical University, Tallinn, Estonia

  Hele-Mai Haav

• Department of Computer Engineering of Tallinn Technical University, Tallinn, Estonia

  Ahto Kalja

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