Web-Age Information Management: First International Conference, WAIM 2000 Shanghai, China, June 21-23, 2000 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1846))

Database Research And Development Has Been Remarkably Successful Over The Past Three Decades. Now The Field Is Facing New Challenges Posted By The Rapid Advances Of Technology, Especially The Penetration Of The Web And Internet Into Everyone's Daily Life. The Economical And Financial Environment Where Database Systems Are Used Has Been Changing Dramatically. In Addition To Being Able To Efficiently Manage A Large Volume Of Operational Data Generated Internally, The Ability To Manage Data In Cyberspace, Extract Relevant Information, And Discover Knowledge To Support Decision Making Is Critical To The Success Of Any Organization. In Order To Provide Researchers And Practitioners With A Forum To Share Their Experiences In Tackling Problems In Managing And Using Data, Information, And Knowledge In The Age Of The Internet And Web, The First International Conference On Web-age Information Management (waim 2000) Was Held In Shanghai, China, June 21-23. The Inaugural Conference In Its Series Was Well Received. Researchers From 17 Countries And Regions, Including Austria, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, The Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Uk, And Usa Submitted Their Recent Work. Twenty-seven Regular And 14 Short Papers Contained In These Proceedings Were Presented During The Two-day Conference. These Papers Cover A Large Spectrum Of Issues, From Classical Data Management Such As Object-oriented Modeling, Spatial And Temporal Databases To Recent Hits Like Data Mining, Data Warehousing, Semi-structured Data, And Xml. Invited Talks -- Visual Data Mining For Business Intelligence Applications -- Parallel Data Mining On Large Scale Pc Cluster -- Xml: Dtd And Queries -- Xml Query Languages In Practice: An Evaluation -- A Two-level Method For Clustering Dtds1 -- Xml Queries Via Sql -- Inferring Dtd To Facilitate User-oriented Xml Documents Query -- O-o: Modeling And Implementation -- An Object Oriented Multidimensional Data Model For Olap -- Applying Object-oriented Conceptual Modeling Techniques To The Design Of Multidimensional Databases And Olap Applications -- An Optimal Locking Scheme In Object-oriented Database Systems -- Association Rules: Mining And Application -- An Efficient Distributed Algorithm For Computing Association Rules -- Mining Association Rules With Negative Items Using Interest Measure -- Probabilistic Approach To Association Rules In Incomplete Databases -- Discovering Sequential Patterns From Non-uniform Databases --^ An Effective Approach To Mining Exception Class Association Rules1 -- Enterprise Information Systems And E-commerce -- Integrated Data Management And Enterprise Models -- A Virtual Private Network For Virtual Enterprise Information Systems -- Adaptive Online Retail Web Site Based On Hidden Markov Model -- A Protocol For Untraceable Electronic Cash -- The Web: Document Management And Retrieval -- Materializing Web Data For Olap And Dss -- Hierarchically Classifying Chinese Web Documents Without Dictionary Support And Segmentation Procedure1 -- Web Clustering And Association Rule Discovery For Web Broadcast -- A Non-euclidean Model For Web Retrieval -- Advanced Replacement Policies For Www Caching -- Spatial And Temporal Databases -- Extending Rectangle Join Algorithms For Rectilinear Polygons -- Hmt: Modeling Temporal Aspects In Hypermedia Applications -- Hana Tree: A Dynamic And Robust Access Method For Spatial Data Handling --^ Madgis: A New Architecture For Distributed Gis Under Internet Environment -- Data Warehousing -- Global View Maintenance By Using Inference Relationship Among Views -- Maintaining Materialized Views For Data Warehouses With Multiple Remote Sources -- Using Loglinear Models To Compress Datacubes -- Materialized View Selection In A Data Warehouse -- Information Retrieval -- Exsight: Highly Accurate Object Based Image Retrieval System Enhanced By Redundant Object Extraction -- Applying Anaphora Resolution To Question Answering And Information Retrieval Systems -- Mb+tree: A Dynamically Updatable Metric Index For Similarity Search -- An Information Store And Retrieval Facility On Corba -- Retrieving Content Directly From Antique Book Images -- Semi-structured Data -- Schema Based Data Storage And Query Optimization For Semi-structured Data1 -- Automatic Wrapper Generation For Web Search Engines -- Multi-level Schema Extraction For Heterogeneous Semi-structured Data --^ Agent, Rough Set And Learning -- Rough Set Based Webct Learning -- Multiagent Systems For Coalition Support -- A Fast Globally Supervised Learning Algorithm For Gaussian Mixture Models -- Optimizing Classifiers By Genetic Algorithm. Hongjun Lu, Aoying Zhou (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Visual Data Mining for Business Intelligence Applications....Pages 3-14 Parallel Data Mining on Large Scale PC Cluster....Pages 15-26 XML Query Languages in Practice: An Evaluation....Pages 29-42 A Two-Level Method for Clustering DTDs 1 ....Pages 43-52 XML Queries via SQL....Pages 53-61 Inferring DTD to Facilitate User-Oriented XML Documents Query....Pages 61-66 An Object Oriented Multidimensional Data Model for OLAP....Pages 69-82 Applying Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Techniques to the Design of Multidimensional Databases and OLAP Applications....Pages 83-94 An Optimal Locking Scheme in Object-Oriented Database Systems....Pages 95-105 An Efficient Distributed Algorithm for Computing Association Rules....Pages 109-120 Mining Association Rules with Negative Items Using Interest Measure....Pages 121-132 Probabilistic Approach to Association Rules in Incomplete Databases....Pages 133-138 Discovering Sequential Patterns from Non-uniform Databases....Pages 139-144 An Effective Approach to Mining Exception Class Association Rules 1 ....Pages 145-150 Integrated Data Management and Enterprise Models....Pages 153-164 A Virtual Private Network for Virtual Enterprise Information Systems....Pages 165-176 Adaptive Online Retail Web Site Based on Hidden Markov Model....Pages 177-188 A Protocol for Untraceable Electronic Cash....Pages 189-197 Materializing Web Data for OLAP and DSS....Pages 201-215 Hierarchically Classifying Chinese Web Documents without Dictionary Support and Segmentation Procedure 1 ....Pages 215-226 Web Clustering and Association Rule Discovery for Web Broadcast....Pages 227-231 A Non-Euclidean Model for Web Retrieval....Pages 233-238 Advanced Replacement Policies for WWW Caching....Pages 239-245 Extending Rectangle Join Algorithms for Rectilinear Polygons....Pages 247-258 HMT: Modeling Temporal Aspects in Hypermedia Applications....Pages 259-271 Hana Tree: A Dynamic and Robust Access Method for Spatial Data Handling....Pages 271-283 MADGIS: A New Architecture for Distributed GIS under Internet Environment....Pages 283-288 Global View Maintenance by Using Inference Relationship among Views....Pages 291-298 Maintaining Materialized Views for Data Warehouses with Multiple Remote Sources....Pages 299-311 Using Loglinear Models to Compress Datacubes....Pages 311-323 Materialized View Selection in a Data Warehouse....Pages 323-328 ExSight: Highly Accurate Object Based Image Retrieval System Enhanced by Redundant Object Extraction....Pages 331-343 Applying Anaphora Resolution to Question Answering and Information Retrieval Systems....Pages 344-355 MB+tree: A Dynamically Updatable Metric Index for Similarity Search....Pages 356-374 An Information Store and Retrieval Facility on CORBA....Pages 374-379 Retrieving Content Directly from Antique Book Images....Pages 380-385 Schema Based Data Storage and Query Optimization for Semi-structured Data 1 ....Pages 389-398 Automatic Wrapper Generation for Web Search Engines....Pages 399-410 Multi-level Schema Extraction for Heterogeneous Semi-structured Data....Pages 411-422 Rough Set Based WebCT Learning....Pages 425-436 MultiAgent Systems for Coalition Support....Pages 437-448 A Fast Globally Supervised Learning Algorithm for Gaussian Mixture Models....Pages 449-454 Optimizing Classifiers by Genetic Algorithm....Pages 455-460 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2000, held in Shanghai, China, in June 2000. The 27 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The book is organized in sections on XML: queries and DTD, object-orientation: modeling and implementation, association rules: mining and applications, enterprise information systems and e-commerce, the Web: document management and retrieval, spatial and temporal databases, data warehousing, information retrieval, semi-structured data, agents, rough sets, and learning