Xiaofang Zhou

Rainer Unland

Yang-Sae Moon

Sang-goo Lee

Zhiyong Peng

JAESOO YOO

This two volume set LNCS 7238 and LNCS 7239 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2012, held in Busan, South Korea, in April 2012. The 44 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 2 invited keynote papers, 8 industrial papers, 8 demo presentations, 4 tutorials and 1 panel paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 159 submissions. The topics covered are query processing and optimization, data semantics, XML and semi-structured data, data mining and knowledge discovery, privacy and anonymity, data management in the Web, graphs and data mining applications, temporal and spatial data, top-k and skyline query processing, information retrieval and recommendation, indexing and search systems, cloud computing and scalability, memory-based query processing, semantic and decision support systems, social data, data mining.

17th International Conference, DASFAA 2012, Busan, South Korea, April 15-18, 2012, Proceedings

Database Systems for Advanced Applications

Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez

Pawel Pawlewski

Javier Bajo Pérez

Vicente Julián

Ricardo Azambuja Silveira

Jaroslaw Kozlak

Jose M. Molina

Sylvain Giroux

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Workshops which complemented the 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2013, held in Salamanca, Spain, in May 2013. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the workshops: Workshop on Agent-based Approaches for the Transportation Modeling and Optimization, Workshop on Agent-Based Solutions for Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Workshop on User-Centric Technologies and Applications, Workshop on Conflict Resolution in Decision Making, Workshop on Multi-Agent System Based Learning Environments, Workshop on Multi-agent based Applications for Sustainable Energy Systems, Workshop on Agents and multi-agent Systems for AAL and e-Health

International Workshops of PAAMS 2013, Salamanca, Spain, May 22-24, 2013. Proceedings

Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Jaesoo Yoo

Ge Yu

Hwanjo Yu

Wynne Hsu

This book constitutes the workshop proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2012, held in Busan, South Korea, in April 2012. The volume contains five workshops, each focusing on specific area that contributes to the main themes of the DASFAA conference: The Second International Workshop on Flash-based Database Systems (FlashDB 2012), the First International Workshop on Information Technologies for Maritime and Logistics (ITEMS 2012), the Third International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Media Mining on the Web (SNSMW 2012), the Second International Workshop on Spatial Information Modeling, Management and Mining (SIM3 2012), and the Fifth International Workshop on Data Quality in Integration Systems (DQIS 2012).

17th International Conference, DASFAA 2012, International Workshops: FlashDB, ITEMS, SNSM, SIM3, DQDI, Busan, South Korea, April 15-18, 2012, Proceedings

Ingo J. Timm

Gabriela Lindemann-v. Trzebiatowski

Jörg Denzinger

After the huge success of the ?rst German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES) last year in Erfurt the German Special Interest Group on Distributed Arti?cial Intelligence together with the steering committee of MATES proudly organized and conducted this international conference for the second time. ThegoaloftheMATESconferenceistoconstituteahigh-qualityplatformfor thepresentationanddiscussionofnewresearchresultsandsystemdevelopments. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers, to present and discuss the latest advances in research work, as well as prototyped or?eldedsystemsofintelligentagents.Theconferencecoversthecompleterange from theory to application of agent and multiagent technologies. MATES 2004 was conducted - asanintegralpartofthe5thInternationalConferenceNet.ObjectDays2004 along with the - 8th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA) 2004 - Autumn meeting of FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) - PrototypeandProductExhibitionofAgentRelatedPlatforms,Frameworks, Systems, Applications, and Tools As such all these events together may have formed the biggest agent-related event of this year in Europe and one of the biggest worldwide. The call-for-papers attracted about 60 submissions from all over the world. After a carefulreviewing process,the internationalprogramcommittee accepted 22 high-quality papers of particular relevance and quality. The selected cont- butions cover a wide range of exciting topics, in particular agent analysis and security, agent negotiation and control, agents and software engineering, s- ulation and agents, and agent policies and testing. Exciting highlights of the conference were the invited talks, by Jim Odell on Agent UML 2.0: Too Radical or Not Radical Enough?, and Cristiano Castelfranchi on Emergence and C- nition: Towards a Synthetic Paradigm in AI and Cognitive Science.Moreover, several agent-related tutorials were conducted.

Second German Conference, MATES 2004, Erfurt, Germany, September 29-30, 2004, Proceedings

Multiagent System Technologies

Stefano Ceri

Zohra Bellahsène

Michael Rys

Ela Hunt

Stéphane Bressan

Zachary G. Ives

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2005, held in Trondheim, Norway in August 2005 in conjunction with VLDB 2005 and in coordination with the Database and Programming Languages Symposium, DBPL 2005. The 15 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and are preluded by a joint XSym-DBPL keynote talk. The papers are organized in topical sections on indexing support for the evaluation of XPath and XQuery; benchmarks and algorithms for XQuery and XPath evaluation; algorithms for constraint satisfaction checking, information extraction, and subtree matching; and applications of XML in information systems.

Third International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2005, Trondheim, Norway, August 28-29, 2005, Proceedings

Database and XML Technologies

Dan Suciu

Tova Milo

Modern database systems enhance the capabilities of traditional database systems by their ability to handle any kind of data, including text, image, audio, and video. Today, databasesystemsareparticularlyrelevanttotheWeb,astheycanprovideinputtocontent generators for Web pages, and can handle queries issued over the Internet. The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is used in applications running the gamut from content management through publishing to Web services and e-commerce. It is used as the universal communication language for exchanging music and graphics as well as purchase orders and technical documentation. As database systems increasingly talk to each other over the Web, there is a fa- growingdesiretouseXMLasthestandardexchangeformat.Asaresult,manyrelational database systems can export data as XML documents and import data from XML d- uments and provide query and update capabilities for XML data. In addition, so called native XML database and integration systems are appearing on the database market, whose claim is to be especially tailored to storing, maintaining, and easily accessing XML documents. After the huge success of the ?rst XML Database Symposium (XSym 2003) last year in Berlin (already then in conjunction withVLDB) it was decided to establish this symposiumasanannualeventthatissupposedtotakeplaceasanintegralpartofVLDB. Thegoalofthissymposiumistoprovideahigh-qualityplatformforthepresentationand discussion of new research results and system developments. It is targeted at scientists, practitioners, vendors and users of XML and database technologies.

Second International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2004, Toronto, Canada, August 29-30, 2004, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2009, held in Lyon, France, in August 2009 in conjunction with the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2009. The 8 revised full papers together with 7 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. Covering all current aspects of core database technology for XML data management, XML and data integration, and development and deployment of XML applications, the papers are organized in topical sections on XML twig queries, query execution, xml document parsing and compression, XQuery and XML transaction management and schema design.

6th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2009, Lyon, France, August 24, 2009. Proceedings

Akmal B. Chaudhri

Chabane Djeraba

Wolfgang Lindner

This volume comprises papers from the following three workshops that were part of the complete program for the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) held in Prague, Czech Republic, in March 2002: XML-Based Data Management (XMLDM) Second International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering (MDDE) Young Researchers Workshop (YRWS) Together, the three workshops featured 48 high-quality papers selected from approximately 130 submissions. It was, therefore, difficult to decide on the papers that were to be accepted for presentation. We believe that the accepted papers substantially contribute to their particular fields of research. The workshops were an excellent basis for intense and highly fruitful discussions. The quality and quantity of papers show that the areas of interest for the workshops are highly active. A large number of excellent researchers are working in relevant fields producing research output that is not only of interest to other researchers but also for industry. The organizers and participants of the workshops were highly satisfied with the output. The high quality of the presenters and workshop participants contributed to the success of each workshop. The amazing environment of Prague and the location of the EDBT conference also contributed to the overall success. Last, but not least, our sincere thanks to the conference organizers – the organizing team was always willing to help and if there were things that did not work, assistance was quickly available.

EDBT 2002 Workshops XMLDM, MDDE, and YRWS, Prague, Czech Republic, March 24-28, 2002, Revised Papers

XML-Based Data Management and Multimedia Engineering - EDBT 2002 Workshops

Shuigeng Zhou

Jianliang Xu

This book constitutes the workshop proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2011, held in Hong Kong, China, in April 2011. The volume contains six workshops, each focusing on specific research issues that contribute to the main themes of the DASFAA conference: The First International Workshop on Graph-structured Data Bases (GDB 2011); the First International Workshop on Spatial Information Modeling, Management and Mining (SIM3 2011); the International Workshop on Flash-based Database Systems (FlashDB 2011); the Second International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Media Mining on the Web (SNSMW 2011); the First International Workshop on Data Management for Emerging Network Infrastructures (DaMEN 2011); and the Fourth International Workshop on Data Quality in Integration Systems (DQIS 2011).

16th International Conference, DASFAA 2011 International Workshops: GDB, SIM3, FlashDB, SNSMW, DaMEN, DQIS, Hong Kong, China, April 22-25, 2011, Proceedings

Paweł Pawlewski

Jeffrey Xu Yu

Myoung Ho Kim

This two volume set LNCS 6587 and LNCS 6588 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2011, held in Saarbrücken, Germany, in April 2010. The 53 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited keynote papers, 22 demonstration papers, 4 industrial papers, 8 demo papers, and the abstract of 1 panel discussion, were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 225 submissions. The topics covered are social network, social network and privacy, data mining, probability and uncertainty, stream processing, graph, XML, XML and graph, similarity, searching and digital preservation, spatial queries, query processing, as well as indexing and high performance.

16th International Conference, DASFAA 2011, Hong Kong, China, April 22-25, 2011, Proceedings

Sihem Amer-Yahia

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2006, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2006. The book presents 8 revised full papers, focused on building XML repositories and covering query processing, caching, indexing and navigation support, structural matching, temporal XML, and XML updates. Topical sections include query evaluation and temporal XML, XPath and twigs, and XML updates.

4th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2006, Seoul, Korea, September 10-11, 2006, Proceedings

Matthias Klusch

Monique Calisti

This book introduces major agent platforms, frameworks, systems, tools, and applications. Each system is described by their developers in sufficient detail so that the reader can get a good understanding of the architecture, functionality, and application areas of the system. All systems are running systems. One main focus of the book lies on agent platforms and toolkits.

Software Agent-Based Applications, Platforms and Development Kits

Erhard Rahm

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere. The database c- munity is interested in XML because it can be used to represent a variety of data f- mats originating in different kinds of data repositories while providing structure and the possibility to add type information. The theme of this symposium is the combination of database and XML te- nologies. Today, we see growing interest in using these technologies together for many Web-based and database-centric applications. XML is being used to publish data from database systems on the Web by providing input to content generators for Web pages, and database systems are increasingly being used to store and query XML data, often by handling queries issued over the Internet. As database systems incre- ingly start talking to each other over the Web, there is a fast-growing interest in using XML as the standard exchange format for distributed query processing. As a result, many relational database systems export data as XML documents, import data from XML documents, provide query and update capabilities for XML data. In addition, so-called native XML database and integration systems are appearing on the database market, and it’s claimed that they are especially tailored to store, maintain and easily access XML documents.

First International XML Database Symposium, XSYM 2003, Berlin, Germany, September 8, 2003, Proceedings

Rainer Unland

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