Database: Enterprise, Skills And Innovation: 22nd British National Conference On Databases, Bncod 22, Sunderland, Uk, July 5-7, 2005, Proceedings (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

The British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) was established in 1980 as a forum for research into the theory and practice of databases. The original conference in the series took place at the University of Aberdeen. To be precise, this conference was in fact entitled ICOD which stood for International Conference on Databases. It was the intention, when the series began, that an ICOD would take place every two years, whilst a BNCOD would run in the years in between. As the record shows ICOD was only held in 1980 and 1983. The more junior conference has managed to acquire a lifetime much longer than that of its senior relative! If truth wereknown,however,BNCOD has,overthe years,growninto ICOD and although the conference is still titled “British National,” it is, in fact, an international conference that takes place on a yearly basis. Proof of this can be obtained simply by looking at the table of contents of these proceeding which clearlyshowthatthe majorityofpaperspresentedatthis year’sconferencecame from contributors whose a?liations are outside the UK. Despitetherangeofpapersono?er,BNCODstillretainsitsuniquelyBritish ?avor. The Programme Committee is drawn from UK academics and the c- ference is always held at a British university (or in earlier years a polytechnic!). Front Matter....Pages - Databases in Grid Applications: Locality and Distribution....Pages 1-16 Spatial Hierarchies and Topological Relationships in the Spatial MultiDimER Model....Pages 17-28 Multidimensional Structures Dedicated to Continuous Spatiotemporal Phenomena....Pages 29-40 TimeER plus : A Temporal EER Model Supporting Schema Changes....Pages 41-59 Semantically Rich Materialisation Rules for Integrating Heterogeneous Databases....Pages 60-69 Answering Queries Using Views in the Presence of Functional Dependencies....Pages 70-81 LAX : An Efficient Approximate XML Join Based on Clustered Leaf Nodes for XML Data Integration....Pages 82-97 Exploitation of Referential Integrity Constraints for Efficient Update of Data Warehouse Views....Pages 98-110 Correlation-Based Data Broadcasting in Wireless Networks....Pages 111-119 Hierarchical Group-Based Sampling....Pages 120-132 Using Schema Transformation Pathways for Data Lineage Tracing....Pages 133-144 XDGL: XPath-Based Concurrency Control Protocol for XML Data....Pages 145-154 Updating XML Using Object-Relational Database....Pages 155-160 Image Retrieval Using Weighted Color Co-occurrence Matrix....Pages 161-165 Street Address Correction Based on Spelling Techniques....Pages 166-172 Personalising Patient Information in the Real World....Pages 173-178 Republishers in a Publish/Subscribe Architecture for Data Streams....Pages 179-184 Back Matter....Pages - The British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) was established in 1980 as a forum for research into the theory and practice of databases. The original conference in the series took place at the University of Aberdeen. To be precise, this conference was in fact entitled ICOD which stood for International Conference on Databases. It was the intention, when the series began, that an ICOD would take place every two years, whilst a BNCOD would run in the years in between. As the record shows ICOD was only held in 1980 and 1983. The more junior conference has managed to acquire a lifetime much longer than that of its senior relative! If truth wereknown, however, BNCOD has, overthe years, growninto ICOD and although the conference is still titled "British National," it is, in fact, an international conference that takes place on a yearly basis. Proof of this can be obtained simply by looking at the table of contents of these proceeding which clearlyshowthatthe majorityofpaperspresentedatthis year'sconferencecame from contributors whose a?liations are outside the UK. Despitetherangeofpapersono?er, BNCODstillretainsitsuniquelyBritish?avor. The Programme Committee is drawn from UK academics and the c- ference is always held at a British university (or in earlier years a polytechnic!)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 22, held in Sunderland, UK in July 2005.

The 16 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper and the abstract of an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on spatio-temporal databases, data integration and information retrieval, XML, and applied information management.

The 2001 paper "Databases and the Grid" ([1]) argued that databases should play an important role in e-science applications.