Advances in Databases and Information Systems

Invited Talk.- Sausalito: An Application Servers for RESTful Services in the Cloud.- Business Processes.- Versions to Address Business Process Flexibility Issue.- A Rule-Based Modeling for the Description of Flexible and Self-healing Business Processes.- Business Process Aware IS Change Management in SMEs.- Design Issues.- Performance Driven Database Design for Scalable Web Applications.- Generic Entity Resolution in Relational Databases.- Tool Support for the Design and Management of Spatial Context Models.- Advanced Query Processing.- Efficient Set Similarity Joins Using Min-prefixes.- Probabilistic Granule-Based Inside and Nearest Neighbor Queries.- Window Update Patterns in Stream Operators.- Query Processing and Optimization.- Systematic Exploration of Efficient Query Plans for Automated Database Restructuring.- Using Structural Joins and Holistic Twig Joins for Native XML Query Optimization.- Approximate Rewriting of Queries Using Views.- Query Languages.- SQL Triggers Reacting on Time Events: An Extension Proposal.- Pushing Predicates into Recursive SQL Common Table Expressions.- On Containment of Conjunctive Queries with Negation.- Indexing and Caching.- Optimizing Maintenance of Constraint-Based Database Caches.- The Onion-Tree: Quick Indexing of Complex Data in the Main Memory.- Data Integration.- Cost-Based Vectorization of Instance-Based Integration Processes.- Empowering Provenance in Data Integration.- Applications.- Detecting Moving Objects in Noisy Radar Data Using a Relational Database.- Study of Dependencies in Executions of E-Contract Activities.- Object Tag Architecture for Innovative Intelligent Transportation Systems.- Portpourri.- Conceptual Universal Database Language: Moving Up the Database Design Levels.- Temporal Data Classification Using Linear Classifiers.- SPAX PAX with Super-Pages.