A - main conference room
B, C - session rooms
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH
15.00 – 19.00 REGISTRATION
19.00 – 20.00 WELCOME DRINK
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH
Tutorial
I (main conference room)
9.00 – 12.00 Design and Maintenance of Data Warehouses
Timos Sellis (Knowledge and Database Systems Laboratory at NTUA, Greece)
This tutorial is sponsored by VLDB Endowment.
12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH
Tutorial
II (main conference room)
14.00 – 17.00 Aspect-Oriented Programming: What does it Mean for Database Systems?
Awais Rashid (Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK)
19.00 – 20.30 CONCERT (Zichy Palace)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH
9.00 – 9.15 Opening Session (main conference room)
Session
1A, Invited Lecture I
Chair: Pavol Navrat
9.15 – 10.45 Time: a Coordinate for Web Site Modelling
Paolo Atzeni (University of Roma 3, Italy)
10.45 – 11.00 COFFEE BREAK
Session
2A, XML and Semistructured Data I
Chair: Hans-Jörg Schek
11.00 – 11.20 Indexing XML Data with UB-trees
Michal Kratky (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic), Jaroslav Pokorny (Charles University, Czech Republic), Vaclav Snasel (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)
11.20 – 11.50 IndML – an Industrial Markup Language
Claudia Raibulet, Claudio Demartini (Politechnico di Torino, Italy)
11.50 – 12.10 Indexing XML to Support Path Expressions
Dmitry Barashev, Boris Novikov (University of St. Petersburg, Russia)
12.10 – 12.30 Towards an Exhaustive Set of Rewriting Rules for Xquery Optimization: BizQuery Experience
Maxim Grinev (Moscow State University), Sergey Kuznetsov (Institute for System Programming, Russia)
Session
2B, Theoretical Issues
Chair: Alexandre Zamulin
11.00 – 11.20 Containment of Inequality Queries Revisited
José Barja, Nieves Brisaboa, Jose Paramá, Miguel Penabad (Universidade de Coruna, Spain)
11.20 – 11.40 A Data Model for Annotated Programs
Stanislav Krajči (P.J. Šafárik University), Rastislav Lencses (P.J. Šafárik University), Peter Vojtáš (Institute of Computer Science, Czech Republic)
11.40 – 12.10 A Semantic Query Optimization Approach to Optimize Linear Datalog Programs
José Paramá, Nieves Brisaboa, Miguel Penabad, Ángeles Places (Universidade de Coruna, Spain)
12.10 – 12.30 Navigation Through Query Results Using Concept Order
Václav Snášel, Tomáš Skopal, Daniela Ďuráková (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)
Session
2C, Spatiotemporal and Spatial Databases
Chair: Yannis Theodoridis
11.00 – 11.30 Spatio-temporal Geographic Information Systems: a Causal Perspective
Baher A. El-Geresy (University of Glamorgan, UK), Alia I. Abdelmoty, Christopher B. Jones (Cardiff University, UK)
11.30 – 12.00 An Access Method for Integrating Multi-scale Geometric Data
Joon-Hee Kwon, Yong-Ik Yoon (Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea)
12.00 – 12.30 Complex Temporal Patterns Detection over Continuous Data Streams
Lilian Harada (Fujitsu Labs, Japan)
12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH
Session
3B, Mobile Databases
Chair: Joachim W. Schmidt
14.00 – 14.30 Monitoring Continuous Location Queries Using Mobile Agents
Sergio Ilarri, Eduardo Mena (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Arantza Illarramendi (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
14.30 – 15.00 Multiversion Data Broadcast Organizations
Oleg Shigiltchoff, Panos Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
15.00 – 15.30 A Flexible Personalization Architecture for Wireless System Specification
George Samaras, Christoforos Panayiotou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
15.30 – 16.00 Optimistic Concurrency Control based on Timestamp Interval for Broadcast Environment
Ukhyun Lee, Buhyun Hwang (Chonnam National University, Korea)
Session
3C, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery I
Chair: Hele-Mai Haav
14.00 – 14.30 Intelligent Support for Information Retrieval in the WWW Environment
Robert Kovaľ, Pavol Návrat (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia)
14.30 – 14.50 Describing the Data Mining Process with DMSL
Petr Kotásek, Jaroslav Zendulka (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
14.50 – 15.10 Semantic Similarity in Content-based Filtering
Gabriela Polčicová, Pavol Návrat (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia)
15.10 – 15.40 Data Access Paths for Frequent Itemset Discovery
Marek Wojciechowski, Maciej Zakrzewics (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
16.00 – 16.15 COFFEE BREAK
Session
4A, Information Systems
Chair: Jaroslav Pokorny
16.15 – 16.35 The Business Rules Repository for Information Systems Design
Rimantas Butleris, Kestutis Kapocius (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)
16.35 – 17.05 A Framework to Analyse and Evaluate Information Systems Specification Languages
Albertas Caplinskas, Audrone Lupeikiene (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania), Olegas Vasilecas (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania)
17.05 – 17.25 Meta-level Transformation in Systems Integration
Jana Kohoutková (Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic)
Session
4B, XML, web databases and hypermedia
Chair: Boris Novikov
16.15 – 16.35 Semistructured Data Store Mapping with XML and its Reconstruction
Enhong Chen, Gongqing Wu (University of Science and Technology, China), Gabriela Nindemann, Mirjam Minor (Humbolt University, Germany)
16.35 – 17.05 Towards Variability Modeling for Reuse in Hypermedia Engineering
Peter Dolog, Mária Bieliková (Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia)
17.05 – 17.25 Accommodating Changes in Semistructured Databases Using Multidimensional OEM
Yannis Stavrakas, Manolis Gergatsoulis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece), Christos Doukeridis, Vassilis Zafeiris (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
19.00 – 22.00 WELCOME DINNER, best student paper award
ceremony
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH
Session
5A, Invited Lecture II
Chair: Andras Benczur
9.00 – 10.30 Trust is not Enough: Privacy and Security in ASP and Web Service Environments
Oliver Gunther (Humboldt University, Germany)
10.30 – 10.45 COFFEE BREAK
Session
6A, Spatial Access Methods
Chair: George Samaras
10.45 – 11.15 Revisiting R-tree Construction Principles
Sotiris Brakatsoulas,
Dieter Pfoser, Yannis
Theodoridis (Computer
Technology Institute, Greece)
11.15 – 11.45 Approximate Algorithms for Distance-based Queries in High-dimensional Data Spaces Using R-trees
Antonio Corral, Joaquin Canadas (University of Almeria, Spain), Michael Vassilakopoulos (Aristotle University, Greece)
11.45 – 12.15 Efficient Similarity Search in Feature Spaces with the Q-tree
Elena Jurado, Manuel Barrena (Extremadura University, Spain)
Session
6B, Object Oriented Databases
Chair: Awais Rashid
10.45 – 11.05 On the Estimation of Query Execution Time in Object Oriented Databases at the Early Design Stages
Aleksey Burdakov, Yuri Grigorev (Moscow State Technical University, Russia), Andrey Ploutenko (Amur State University, Russia)
11.05 – 11.35 Flattening the Metamodel for Object Databases
Piotr Habela (Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland), Mark Roantree (Dublin City University, Ireland), Kazimierz Subieta (Institute of Computer Science, Poland)
11.35 – 12.05 An Object Algebra for the ODMG Standard
Alexandre Zamulin (Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Russia)
12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH
14.00 – 22.00 TRIP TO 'CERVENY KAMEN' CASTLE
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH
Session
7A, Invited Lecture III
Chair: Rainer Manthey
9.00 – 10.30 Infrastructure for Information Spaces
Hans-Jörg Schek (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
10.30 – 10.45 COFFEE BREAK
Session
8A, Workflows
Chair: Albertas Caplinskas
10.45 – 11.15 A Meta Model for Structured Workflows Supporting Workflow Transformation
Johann Eder, Wolfgang Gruber (Univeristy of Klangerfurt, Austria)
11.15 – 11.35 Dynamic Changes in Workflow Participant Assignment
Mariusz Momotko (Rodan Systems, Poland), Kazimierz Subieta (Institute of Computer Science, Poland)
11.35 – 11.55 Applying CSP-like Workflow Process Specifications for their Refinement in AMN by Pre-existing Workflows
Sergey Stupnikov, Leonid Kalinichenko (Institute for Problems of Informatics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore)
Session
8C, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery II
Chair: Bernhard Thalheim
10.45 – 11.15 An Axiomatic Approach to Defining Approximation Measures for Functional Dependencies
Chris Giannella (Indiana University, USA)
11.15 – 11.45 OLAP Query Evaluation in a Database Cluster: a Performance Study on Intra-query Parallelism
Fuat Akal, Klemens Böhm, Hans-Jörg Schek (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
11.45 – 12.05 Visually Mining an Multiple Relational Tables an Once
Maria Camila Barioni, Humberto Razente, Caetano Traina Jr, Agma Traina (University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil)
12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH
Session
9B, Data Modeling
Chair: Radu Bercaru
14.00 – 14.30 Many-dimensional Schema Modeling
Thomas Feyer, Bernhard Thalheim (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany)
14.30 – 14.50 Object-oriented Data Model for Data Warehouse
Alexandre Konovalov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)
14.50 – 15.10 On Modeling Closed Entity-Relationship Diagrams in an Elementary Mathematical Data Model
Christian Mancaş (Ovidius University, Romania)
Session
9C, Advanced Systems and Applications
Chair: Yannis Manolopoulos
11.15 – 11.45 A Standard for Representing Multidimensional Properties: the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM)
Enrique Medina, Juan Trujillo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
11.15 – 11.35 A Strategy for Evaluating Web-based Discretionary Decision Support Systems
Maria Jean Hall, Andrew Stranieri (La Trobe University, Australia), John Zeleznikow (University of Edinburgh, UK)
11.35 – 11.55 Modelling of an Engine Based Approach to the Decision Support
Thomas Feglar (Prague, Czech Republic)
15.10 – 15.30 COFFEE BREAK
15.30 – 15.45 Closing Session
