| Foreword |
| Conference Organizers |
| Program Committee |
| External Reviewers |
| Invited Address I / Session 1： |
| Xyleme: A Dynamic Warehouse for XML Data of the Web |
| Query / Session 2： |
| Query Scheduling in Multi Query Optimization / A. Gupta ; S. Sudarshan ; S. Vishwanathan |
| Exploiting Upper and Lower Bounds in Top-Down Query Optimization / L. Shapiro ; D. Maier ; P. Benninghoff ; K. Billings ; Y. Fan ; K. Hatwal ; Q. Wang ; Y. Zhang ; H.-M. Wu ; B. Vance |
| Web Document Searching Using Enhanced Hyperlink Semantics Based on XML / I. Varlamis ; M. Vazirgiannis |
| Physical Data Structures / Session 3： |
| Design and Implementation of Bitmap Indices for Scientific Data / K. Stockinger |
| Implementing KDB-Trees to Support High-Dimensional Data / R. Orlandic ; B. Yu |
| Qualitative Representations in Large Spatial Databases / B. El-Geresy ; A. Abdelmoty |
| Prefix Trees: New Efficient Data Structures for Matching Strings of Different Lengths / N. Yazdani ; P. Min |
| Schemas and Version / Session 4a： |
| Generation of External Schemas in ODMG Databases / M. Torres ; J. Samos |
| Dynamic Systems Specifications Using Versions and Time / M. Moro ; S. Saggiorato ; N. Edelweiss ; C. dos Santos |
| Short Papers I / Session 4b： |
| Optimization of SchemaSQL Queries / K. Davis ; F. Sadri |
| Static Analysis of Queries as a Tool for Static Optimization / J. Plodzien ; K. Subieta |
| XPathLog: A Declarative, Native XML Data Manipulation Language / W. May |
| Metadata Management for Data Warehousing: Between Vision and Reality / A. Vaduva ; K. Dittrich |
| Invited Address II / Session 5： |
| Evolution of Database Technology: Hyperdatabases / Hans-Jorg Schek |
| OLAP / Session 6： |
| Novel Algorithms for Computing Medians and Other Quantiles of Disk-Resident Data / L. Fu ; S. Rajasekaran |
| Exploitation of Pre-sortedness for Sorting in Query Processing: The TempTris-Algorithm for UB-Trees / M. Zirkel ; V. Markl ; R. Bayer |
| Interactive ROLAP on Large Datasets: A Case Study with UB-Trees / F. Ramsak ; R. Fenk ; T. Ruf |
| Improving the Processing of Decision Support Queries: The Case for a DSS Optimizer / H. Schwarz ; R. Wagner ; B. Mitschang |
| Federated Data Sources / Session 7a： |
| Version Propagation in Federated Database Systems / M. Schonhoff ; M. Strassler ; K. Dittich |
| Semantic Integration of XML Heterogeneous Data Sources / C. Reynaud ; J.-P. Sirot ; D. Vodislav |
| Reducing Inconsistency in Integrating Data from Different Sources / S. Lujan-Mora ; M. Palomar |
| A Data Preparation Framework Based on a Multidatabase Language / K.-U. Sattler ; E. Schallehn |
| Short Papers II / Session 7b： |
| A UML-Based Metamodeling Architecture for Database Design / M..-N. Terrasse ; M. Savonnet ; G. Becker |
| An Integrated Graphical User Interface for High Performance Distributed Computing / X. Shen ; W.-K. Liao ; A. Choudhary |
| Virtual Integration of Temporal and Conflicting Information / P. Chountas ; I. Petrounias |
| Modeling and Management of Spatio-temporal Objects within Temporal GIS Application Framework / D. Stojanovic ; S. Djordjevic-Kajan ; Z. Stojanovic |
| Integrity Constraint Management for Design Object Versions in a Concurrent Engineering Design Environment / J. Goonetillake ; T. Carnduff ; W. Gray |
| Distributed Systems / Session 8： |
| Tradeoff between Client and Server Transaction Validation in Mobile Environment / A. Das ; K. Kai |
| Cryptography and Relational Database Management Systems / J. He ; M. Wang |
| Steiner-Optimal Data Replication in Tree Networks with Storage Costs / K. Kalpakis ; K. Dasgupta ; O. Wolfson |
| Invited Address III / Session 9： |
| Query Languages and XML / Donald D. Chamberlin |
| Data Warehouse and Mining / Session 10： |
| Towards an Architecture for Real-Time Decision Support Systems: Challenges and Solutions / K. Delic ; L. Douillet ; U. Dayal |
| Experimental Evalution of a New Distributed Partitioning Technique for Data Warehouses / J. Bernardino ; H. Madeira |
| Mining Free Itemsets under Constraints / J.-F. Boulicaut ; B. Jeudy |
| A Framework for Understanding Existing Databases / S. Lopes ; J.-M. Petit ; L. Lakhal |
| Multimedia Farewell / Session 11： |
| A Study on Content-Based Classification and Retrieval of Audio Database / M. Liu ; C. Wan |
| Similarity-Based Operators and Query Optimization for Multimedia Database Systems / S. Atnafu ; L. Brunie ; H. Kosch |
| An Adaptive and Efficient Clustering-Based Approach for Content-Based Image Retrieval in Image Databases / R. Stehling ; M. Nascimento ; A. Falcao |
| Author Index |
| Foreword |
| Conference Organizers |
| Program Committee |
| External Reviewers |
| Invited Address I / Session 1： |
| Xyleme: A Dynamic Warehouse for XML Data of the Web |
