Database and Expert Systems Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XX

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2. Invited Talk

   1. XML Databases: Modeling and Multidimensional Indexing

      • Rudolf Bayer

      Pages 1-1

3. Advanced Databases I

   1. Updatability in Federated Database Systems

      • Mong Li Lee, Sin Yeung Lee, Tok Wang Ling

      Pages 2-11

   2. Designing Semistructured Databases: A Conceptual Approach

      • Mong Li Lee, Sin Yeung Lee, Tok Wang Ling, Gillian Dobbie, Leonid A. Kalinichenko

      Pages 12-21

   3. Meaningful Change Detection on the Web⋆

      • S. Flesca, F. Furfaro, E. Masciari

      Pages 22-31

   4. Definition and Application of Metaclasses

      • Mohamed Dahchour

      Pages 32-41

4. Information Retrieval Aspects I

   1. XSearch: A Neural Network Based Tool for Components Search in a Distributed Object Environment

      • Aluízio Haendchen Filho, Hércules A. do Prado, Paulo Martins Engel, Arndt von Staa

      Pages 42-51

   2. Information Retrieval by Possibilistic Reasoning

      • Churn-Jung Liau, Y. Y. Yao

      Pages 52-61

   3. Extracting Temporal References to Assign Document Event-Time Periods*

      • D. Llidó, R. Berlanga, M. J. Aramburu

      Pages 62-71

   4. Techniques and Tools for the Temporal Analysis of Retrieved Information

      • Rafael Berlanga, Juan Pérez, María José Aramburu, Dolores Llidó

      Pages 72-81

5. Digital Libraries

   1. Page Classification for Meta-data Extraction from Digital Collections

      • Francesca Cesarini, Marco Lastri, Simone Marinai, Giovanni Soda

      Pages 82-91

   2. A New Conceptual Graph Formalism Adapted for Multilingual Information Retrieval Purposes

      • Catherine Roussey, Sylvie Calabretto, Jean-Marie Pinon

      Pages 92-101

   3. Flexible Comparison of Conceptual Graphs*

      • M. Montes-y-Gómez, A. Gelbukh, A. López-López, R. Baeza-Yates

      Pages 102-111

   4. Personalizing Digital Libraries for Learners

      • Su-Shing Chen, Othoniel Rodriguez, Chee-Yoong Choo, Yi Shang, Hongchi Shi

      Pages 112-121

6. User Interfaces

   1. Interface for WordNet Enrichment with Classification Systems

      • Andrés Montoyo, Manuel Palomar, German Rigau

      Pages 122-130

   2. An Architecture for Database Marketing Systems

      • Sean W. M. Siqueira, Diva S. de e Silva, Elvira Ma A. Uchôa, Ma Helena L. B. Braz, Rubens N. Melo

      Pages 131-144

   3. NChiql: The Chinese Natural Language Interface to Databases

      • Xiaofeng Meng, Shan Wang

      Pages 145-154

7. Advanced Databases II

   1. Pattern-Based Guidelines for Coordination Engineering

      • Patrick Etcheverry, Philippe Lopistéguy, Pantxika Dagorret

      Pages 155-164

   2. Information Management for Material Science Applications in a Virtual Laboratory

      • A. Frenkel, H. Afsarmanesh, G. Eijkel, L. O. Hertzberger

      Pages 165-174

   3. TREAT: A Reverse Engineering Method and Tool for Environmental Databases

      • Mohamed Ibrahim, Alexander M. Fedorec, Keith Rennolls

      Pages 175-185

th DEXA 2001, the 12 International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications was held on September 3–5, 2001, at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. The rapidly growing spectrum of database applications has led to the establishment of more specialized discussion platforms (DaWaK conference, EC Web conference, and DEXA workshop), which were all held in parallel with the DEXA conference in Munich. In your hands are the results of much effort, beginning with the preparation of the submitted papers. The papers then passed through the reviewing process, and the accepted papers were revised to final versions by their authors and arranged with the conference program. All this culminated in the conference itself. A total of 175 papers were submitted to this conference, and I would like to thank all the authors. They are the real base of the conference. The program committee and the supporting reviewers produced altogether 497 referee reports, on average of 2.84 reports per paper, and selected 93 papers for presentation. Comparing the weight or more precisely the number of papers devoted to particular topics at several recent DEXA conferences, an increase can be recognized in the areas of XMS databases, active databases, and multi and hypermedia efforts. The space devoted to the more classical topics such as information retrieval, distribution and Web aspects, and transaction, indexing and query aspects has remained more or less unchanged. Some decrease is visible for object orientation.

• Databases
• database
• database applications
• database management
• database queries
• database systems
• expert system
• expert systems
• knowledge management
• knowledge-based systems
• multimedia databases
• object-oriented databases
• relational databases
• workflow management systems

• University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

  Heinrich C. Mayr

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague 6, Czech Republic

  Jiri Lazansky

• School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes

  Gerald Quirchmayr

• Department of Information Systems, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  Pavel Vogel

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