Key Technologies for Data Management: 21st British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 21, Edinburgh, UK, July 7-9, 2004. Proceedings

Domenico Laforenza (auth.), Howard Williams, Lachlan MacKinnon (eds.)3540223827, 9783540223825, 9783540278115

This year marked the coming of age of the British National Conference on Databases with its 21st conference held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, in July 2004. To mark the occasion the general theme of the conference was “When Data Is Key”, reflecting not only the traditional key awarded on a 21st birthday, but also the ev- growing importance of electronic data management in every aspect of our modern lives. The conference was run as part of DAMMS (Data Analysis, Manipulation, Management and Storage) Week, which included a number of co-located and complementary conferences and workshops, including the 2nd Workshop on Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Databases (TLAD2), the BNCOD BioInformatics Workshop, and the 1st International Conference on the Future of Consumer Insight Developments in Retail Banking. The aim of this co-location was to develop synergies between the teaching, research and commercial communities involved in all aspects of database activities, and to use BNCOD as a focus for future synergies and developments within these communities. Although this is entitled the British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD has always had an international focus, and this year more than most, with the majority of the papers submitted and accepted coming from outwith the UK.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Towards a Next Generation Grid….Pages 1-3
The Future of the World Wide Web ?….Pages 4-15
Scheduling Strategies for Processing Continuous Queries over Streams….Pages 16-30
Evaluating Complex Queries Against XML Streams with Polynomial Combined Complexity….Pages 31-44
The EGTV Query Language….Pages 45-56
XML Data Integration by Graph Restructuring….Pages 57-71
AUP: Adaptive Change Propagation Across Data Model Boundaries….Pages 72-83
Database Support for Path Query Functions….Pages 84-99
Agent-Based Data Mining Approach for the Prediction of UK and Irish Companies Performance….Pages 100-105
Reducing Damage Assessment Latency in Survivable Databases….Pages 106-111
Efficient Processing of Multiple Structural Join Queries….Pages 112-123
Handling Updates for Cache-Answerability of XML Queries on the Web….Pages 124-135
Constraining XML Transformations for Personalised Information Presentation….Pages 136-143
DbSurfer: A Search and Navigation Tool for Relational Databases….Pages 144-149
Ontology-Driven Automated Generation of Data Entry Interfaces to Databases….Pages 150-164
Incremental Observer Relative Data Extraction….Pages 165-177
Performing Colour-Based Similarity Searches in Multimedia Database Management Systems Augmented with Derived Images….Pages 178-189
Bulk Loading the M-Tree to Enhance Query Performance….Pages 190-202
A Fast Filter for Obstructed Nearest Neighbor Queries….Pages 203-215
Language Bindings for Spatio-Temporal Database Programming in Tripod….Pages 216-233
Gauging Students’ Understanding Through Interactive Lectures….Pages 234-243
Teaching SQL — Which Pedagogical Horse for This Course?….Pages 244-256
Computer-Based Assessment Strategies in the Teaching of Databases at Honours Degree Level 1….Pages 257-264
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