Session P1: Query Processing I

A cost model for parallel navigational access in complex-object DBMSs

Michael Gesmann

Cost-driven evaluation of vertical class partitioning in object-oriented databases

Chi-wai Fung

Kamalakar Karlapalem

Qing Li

Query optimization techniques utilizing path indexes in object-oriented database systems

Wan-Sup Cho

Seung-Sun Lee

Kyu-Young Whang

Yong-Ik Yoon

Session P2: Internet Databases

Classifying network architectures for locating information sources

R. Dolin

D. Agrawal

A. El Abbadi

Server ranking for distributed text retrieval systems on the Internet

Budi Yuwono

Dik L. Lee

Attribute-based automatic network map scaling

Yan-Nong Huang

Liang Chen

Session P3: Distributed Objects

Supporting object migration in distributed systems

George Semeczko

Stanley Y.W. Su

Modelling moving objects in multimedia databases

Mohammad Nabil

Anne H.H. Ngu

John Shepherd

Failure handling in CORBAflow: a CORBA-based transactional workflow architecture

Casimir J. Crawley

Omran Bukhres

Session P4: Query Processing II

A graph-theoretic model for optimizing large join queries

Chiang Lee

Chi-Sheng Shih

Yaw-Huei Chen

Query size estimation using machine learning

Bangchong Harangsri

John Shepherd

Anne Ngu

Supporting distributed query processing in a heterogeneous environment

George Semeczko

Stanley Y.W. Su

Tsae-Feng Yu

Fang Wang

Duplicate-free generation of Alternatives in transformation-based optimizers

Arjan Pellenkoft

Cesar A. Galindo-Legaria

Martin Kersten

Session P5: Document Databases

An indexing scheme for structured documents and its implementation

Tuong Dao

Ron Sacks-Davis

James A. Thom

Client-server optimization for multimedia document exchange

Gerhard Kostler

Wolfgang Kowarschick

Werner KieBling

A data modelling and query processing scheme for integration of structured document repositories and relational databases

Atsuyuki Morishima

Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Session P6: Advanced Database Applications

Use of a persistent graph abstract data type for representing CASE tool repositories

Robert M. Colomb

Anne-Grethe Eilertsen

A break for workaholics: energy-efficient selective tuning mechanisms for demand-driven-based wireless environment

Kian-Lee Tan

Jeffrey X. Yu

Increasing concurrency in object-oriented databases for software engineering environments

Hardeep Singh

Jun Han

Session P7: Data Mining and Visualization

A general incremental technique for maintaining discovered association rules

David W. Cheung

S.D. Lee

Benjamin Kao

Reduction of update propagation overhead for data warehouses incorporating OODBs

Zhiyong Peng

Yahiko Kambayashi

A SOM-based information organizer for text and video data

Kenji Hatano

Qing Qian

Katsumi Tanaka

Session P8: Access Methods

Performance in practice of string hashing functions

M.V. Ramakrishna

Justin Zobel

Optimal type hierarchy linearization for queries in OODB

Thomas A. Mueck

Martin L. Polaschek

MIN-entropy: a new signature file declustering algorithm for intra-query parallelism

Byoung-Mo IM

Myoung Ho Kim

Jae Soo Yoo

Session P9: Scientific and Statistical Databases

An integration methodology for autonomous taxonomy databases using priorities

Hajime Kitakami

Yasuma Mori

Masatoshi Arikawa

Akira Sato

A redundancy-based optimization approach for aggregation in multidimensional scientific and statistical databases

Wolfgang Lehner

Thomas Ruf

The Cube-Query-Language (CQL) for multidimensional statistical and scientific database systems

Andreas Bauer

Wolfgang Lehner

Session P10: Transaction Processing I

Language constructs for reliable distributed real-time transaction processing

Yong-Ik Yoon

Ju-Hyun cho

Database transactions in a purely declarative logic programming language

David Kemp

Thomas Conway

Evan Harris

Fergus Henderson

Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

Zoltan Somogyi

Mini-Savepoints: Firewall for atomic updates

Young Chul Park

Jun Hyun Park

Dae Young Huh

Session P11: Object-Oriented Databases

A boolean algebra approach for class hierarchy normalization

Yanchun Zhang

Jitian Xiao

Using security methods to enforce mandatory and discretionary access control in an object database

James M. Slack

Scheme versions in object-oriented database systems

Sven-Eric Lautemann

Session P12: Multimedia and Engineering Databases

A multimedia query language for handling multi-structure information

Eunsook Ryu

Kyuchul Lee

Modeling an engineering design application using extended object-oriented concepts

Lia Goldstein Golendziner

Clesio Saraiva dos Santos

Flavio Rech Wagner

A unified approach to representation, synchronization and storage of temporal multimedia objects based on time interval logic

Yoshifumi Masunaga

Session P13: Temporal Databases

Modeling valid time: an efficient representation

N.L. Sarda

Layered temporal DBMS's -- concepts and techniques

Kristian Torp

Christian S. Jensen

Michael Bohlen

Implementing temporal databases in object-oriented systems

A. Steiner

M.C. Norrie

Session P14: Multidatabases

Efficient view maintenance in a multidatabase environment

Rongquen Chen

Weiyi Meng

A methodology of integrating fuzzy relational databases in a multidatabase system

Weining Zhang

Elizabeth Laun

Weiyi Meng

Restrcturing class hierarchies for schema integration

Ingo Schmitt

Stefan Conrad

Session P15: Information Retrieval

Combining multiple evidence from different relevance feedback methods

Joon Ho Lee

A wrapping architecture for IR systems to mediate external structured document sources

Yoshiharu Ishikawa

Takehiro Furudate

Shunsuke Uemura

Distributed query processing for structured and bibliographic databases

Ee-Peng Lim

Ying Lu

Session P16: Parallel and Active Databases

An effective filtering technique for last condition evaluation in active databases

Dong Wook Kim

Myoung Ho Kim

Yoon Joon Lee

Simulation studies of the cassette migration activities in a scalable tape archiver

Toshihiro Nemoto

Masaru Kitsuregawa

Mikio Takagi

Implementation and evaluation of the bucket flattening Omega network of the parallel relational database server SDC-II

Takayuki Tamura

Masaru Kitsuregawa

Session P17: Video on Demand

Virtual batching: A new scheduling technique for video-on-demand servers

Simon Sheu

Kien A. Hua

Ta-Hsiung Hu

On video-on-demand servers with hierarchical storage

Kian-Lee Tan

Beng Chin Ooi

Tat Seng Chua

Supporting dynamic relocation of video data in disk-array-based video servers

Eunsam Kim

Taeck-Geum Kwon

Yunmook Nah

Sukho Lee

Session P18: Transaction Processing II

A parallel execution model for database transactions

Javam C. Machado

Christine Collet

Distributed resource management in workflow environments

Weimin Du

Graham Eddy

Ming-Chien Shan

Jim Davis

Achieving high degree of concurrency in multidatabase transaction scheduling

Kyungcheol Sohn

Songchun Moon

Author Index