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.