Advances in Databases and Information Systems

Constraint Databases. - Quantifier-Elimination for the First-Order Theory of Boolean Algebras with Linear Cardinality Constraints. - Deductive Databases. - Update Propagation in Deductive Databases Using Soft Stratification. - Heterogenous and Web Information Systems. - Query Rewriting Using Views in a Typed Mediator Environment. - Reasoning About Web Information Systems Using Story Algebras. - Cross Enterprise Information Systems. - Component Framework for Strategic Supply Network Development. - Knowledge Discovery. - An Abstract Algebra for Knowledge Discovery in Databases. - Database Modelling. - Beyond Databases: An Asset Language for Conceptual Content Management. - Component-Based Modeling of Huge Databases. - Cognitive Load Effects on End User Understanding of Conceptual Models: An Experimental Analysis. - Template Based, Designer Driven Design Pattern Instantiation Support. - XML and Semistructured Databases. - A High-Level Language for Specifying XML Data Transformations. - Implementing a Query Language for Context-Dependent Semistructured Data. - Static Analysis of Structural Recursion in Semistructured Databases and Its Consequences. - Physical Database Design and Query Evaluation. - Catalogues from a New Perspective: A Data Structure for Physical Organisation. - Database Caching Towards a Cost Model for Populating Cache Groups. - Towards Quadtree-Based Moving Objects Databases. - A Content-Based Music Retrieval System Using Multidimensional Index of Time-Sequenced Representative Melodies from Music Database. - Solving Stochastic Optimization in Distributed Databases Using Genetic Algorithms. - Transaction Management and Workflow Systems. - ML-1-2PC: An Adaptive Multi-level Atomic Commit Protocol. - Making More Out of an Inconsistent Database. - Process Query Language: A Way to MakeWorkflow Processes More Flexible. - Triggering Replanning in an Integrated Workflow Planning and Enactment System. - Query Processing and Data Streams. - Grouped Processing of Relational Algebra Expressions over Data Streams. - Processing Sliding Window Join Aggregate in Continuous Queries over Data Streams. - Spatial Databases. - How to Integrate Heterogeneous Spatial Databases in a Consistent Way? . - Vague Spatial Data Types, Set Operations, and Predicates. - Agents and Mobile Systems. - Intelligent Multi-agent Based Database Hybrid Intrusion Prevention System. - Energy Efficient Transaction Processing in Mobile Broadcast Environments.