Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2000 [electronic resource] : 7th International Conference on Extending Database Technology Konstanz, Germany, March 27-31, 2000 Proceedings /

Invited Paper -- XML: Current Developments and Future Challenges for the Database Community -- Indexing & Searching -- Trading Quality for Time with Nearest-Neighbor Search -- Dynamically Optimizing High-Dimensional Index Structures -- Slim-Trees: High Performance Metric Trees Minimizing Overlap between Nodes -- Mediators & Semantic Integration -- Automatic Deployment of Application-Specific Metadata and Code in MOCHA -- A Graph-Oriented Model for Articulation of Ontology Interdependencies -- An Approach to the Semi-automatic Generation of Mediator Specifications -- Cooperation & Security -- Securing XML Documents -- Using Checksums to Detect Data Corruption -- Navigation-Driven Evaluation of Virtual Mediated Views -- Performance -- Aggregate Aware Caching for Multi-dimensional Queries -- Performance and Availability Assessment for the Configuration of Distributed Workflow Management Systems -- Evolution and Revolutions in LDAP Directory Caches -- Industrial & Applications Track: Performance -- Order Based Analysis Functions in NCR Teradata Parallel RDBMS -- Performance of DB2 Enterprise-Extended Edition on NT with Virtual Interface Architecture -- A Database Perspective on Building Large Applications - Experience Report - -- Data Warehousing -- The Dynamic Data Cube -- OLAP Query Routing and Physical Design in a Database Cluster -- Materialized View Selection for Multi-cube Data Models -- Semistructured Data -- On Bounding-Schemas for LDAP Directories -- Approximate Graph Schema Extraction for Semi-structured Data -- A Data Model for Semistructured Data with Partial and Inconsistent Information -- Data Mining -- Mining Classification Rules from Datasets with Large Number of Many-Valued Attributes -- Efficient Discovery of Functional Dependencies and Armstrong Relations -- Athena: Mining-Based Interactive Management of Text Databases -- Industrial & Applications Track: XML -- Tamino — An Internet Database System -- A Systematic Approach for Informal Communication During Workflow Execution -- Spatial & Temporal Information -- Temporal View Self-Maintenance -- A Unified Approach for Indexed and Non-indexed Spatial Joins -- Parametric Rectangles: A Model for Querying and Animation of Spatiotemporal Databases -- Systems & Applications -- An Architecture for Archiving and Post-Processing Large, Distributed, Scientific Data Using SQL/MED and XML -- Persistent Client-Server Database Sessions -- Object View Hierarchies in DB2 UDB -- Query Systems -- Plug&Join: An Easy-To-Use Generic Algorithm for Efficiently Processing Equi and Non-equi Joins -- Querying Graph Databases -- Hierarchical Declustering Schemes for Range Queries.

EDBT 2000 is the seventh conference in a series dedicated to the advancement of database technology. This year’s conference special theme, \Connect Millions of Users and Data Sources," underscores the importance of databases for the information age that is dawning with the new millennium. The importance - rives not just from the observation that the information age essentially rests on theconvergenceofcommunications,computing,andstorage.Equallyimportant, many of the concepts and techniques underlying the success of databasesystems have independent meaning and impact for today’s distributed information s- tems. The papers in the volume should also be seen in this light. The EDBT 2000 conference program includes 30 research papers selected by the program committee out of 187 submissions, covering advances in research, development, and applications of databases. The conference program also - cludes six industry andapplications papers,a panel discussion,six tutorials,and several software demonstrations. The conference features three distinguished - vited speakers: Ashish Gupta discusses database issues in electronic commerce, Stefano Ceri addresses the impact and challenges of XML on databases, and Andreas Reuter shares his views on new perspectives on database technology. The technical contributions presented at the EDBT 2000 conference are colle- ed and preserved in this volume that we are pleased to present to you with the expectation that it will serve as a valuable research and reference tool in your professional life.