Database and Expert Systems Applications : 24th International Conference, DEXA 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-29, 2013 : proceedings. Part I

This two volume set LNCS 8055 and LNCS 8056 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2013, held in Prague, Czech Republic, August 23-29, 2013. The 43 revised full papers presented together with 33 short papers, and 3 keynote talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 174 submissions. These papers discuss a range of topics including: search queries; indexing; discovery of semantics; parallel processing; XML and RDF; enterprise models; query evaluation and optimization; semantic Web; sampling; industrial applications; communities; AI and databases; matching and searching; information extraction; queries, streams, and uncertainty, storage and compression; query processing; security; distributed data processing; metadata modeling and maintenance; pricing and recommending; and security and semantics. Front Matter....Pages - Horizontal and Vertical Business Process Model Integration....Pages 1-3 Structuring E-Participation in Policy Making through Argumentation....Pages 4-6 Making Collective Wisdom Wiser....Pages 7-8 Preferences Chain Guided Search and Ranking Refinement....Pages 9-24 Efficient XML Keyword Search: From Graph Model to Tree Model....Pages 25-39 Permutation-Based Pruning for Approximate K-NN Search....Pages 40-47 Dynamic Multi-probe LSH: An I/O Efficient Index Structure for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search....Pages 48-62 Revisiting the Term Frequency in Concept-Based IR Models....Pages 63-77 BioDI: A New Approach to Improve Biomedical Documents Indexing....Pages 78-87 Discovering Semantics from Data-Centric XML....Pages 88-102 Finding Image Semantics from a Hierarchical Image Database Based on Adaptively Combined Visual Features....Pages 103-117 Formalization and Discovery of Approximate Conditional Functional Dependencies....Pages 118-128 Parallel Partitioning and Mining Gene Expression Data with Butterfly Network....Pages 129-144 Parallel and Distributed Mining of Probabilistic Frequent Itemsets Using Multiple GPUs....Pages 145-152 Taming Elephants, or How to Embed Parallelism into PostgreSQL....Pages 153-164 Effectively Delivering XML Information in Periodic Broadcast Environments....Pages 165-179 GUN: An Efficient Execution Strategy for Querying the Web of Data....Pages 180-194 Complex Matching of RDF Datatype Properties....Pages 195-208 Coordination Issues in Artifact-Centric Business Process Models....Pages 209-223 Exploring Data Locality for Clustered Enterprise Applications....Pages 224-238 A Framework for Data-Driven Workflow Management: Modeling, Verification and Execution....Pages 239-253 Generic Top-k Query Processing with Breadth-First Strategies....Pages 254-269 Evaluating Spatial Skyline Queries on Changing Data....Pages 270-277 SONIC: Scalable Multi-query OptimizatioN through Integrated Circuits....Pages 278-292 XML Schema Transformations....Pages 293-302 StdTrip+K: Design Rationale in the RDB-to-RDF Process....Pages 303-310 Organizing Scientific Competitions on the Semantic Web....Pages 311-318 An Inductive Logic Programming-Based Approach for Ontology Population from the Web....Pages 319-326 Incremental Algorithms for Sampling Dynamic Graphs....Pages 327-341 CoDS: A Representative Sampling Method for Relational Databases....Pages 342-356 Publishing Trajectory with Differential Privacy: A Priori vs. A Posteriori Sampling Mechanisms....Pages 357-365 Towards Automated Compliance Checking in the Construction Industry....Pages 366-380 Quantifying Reviewer Credibility in Online Tourism....Pages 381-395 Classifying Twitter Users Based on User Profile and Followers Distribution....Pages 396-403 Fast Community Detection....Pages 404-418 Force-Directed Layout Community Detection....Pages 419-427 On the Composition of Digital Licenses in Collaborative Environments....Pages 428-442 The Hints from the Crowd Project....Pages 443-453 Database Technology: A World of Interaction....Pages 454-461 Back Matter....Pages - This two volume set LNCS 8644 and LNCS 8645 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2014, held in Munich, Germany, September 1-4, 2014.