Hongjun Lu - Böcker

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2004, held in Hangzhou, China, in April 2004. The 60 revised full papers, 24 revised short papers, 15 revised poster papers, and 3 revised industrial papers presented together with 3 keynote papers and 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 386 full paper submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on web semantics, web personalization, web intelligence, XML processing, XML and Databases, P2P systems and applications, grid computing and networking, web-based query processing, advanced query processing, advanced applications, knowledge discovery and pattern recognition, web mining, data mining and data analysis, text mining, information retrieval, web services and web computing, web safety, web technologies, web caching and mobile objects, workflow management, and e-commerce.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to welcome you to the proccedings of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2004). This conference provided an international forum for technical discussion on conceptual modeling of information systems among researchers, developers and users. This was the third time that this conference was held in Asia; the ?rst time was in Singapore in 1998 and the second time was in Yokohama, Japan in 2001. China is the third largest nation with the largest population in the world. Shanghai, the largest city in China and a great metropolis, famous in Asia and throughout the world, is therefore a most appropriate location to host this conference. This volume contains papers selected for presentation and includes the two keynote talks by Prof. Hector Garcia-Molina and Prof. Gerhard Weikum, and an invited talk by Dr. Xiao Ji. This volume also contains industrial papers and demo/poster papers. An additional volume contains papers from 6 workshops.The conference also featured three tutorials: (1) Web Change Management andDelta Mining: Opportunities andSolutions,by SanjayMadria,(2)A Survey of Data Quality Issues in Cooperative Information Systems, by Carlo Batini, and (3) Visual SQL - An ER-Based Introduction to Database Programming,by Bernhard Thalheim.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2001, held in Xi'an, China, in July 2001.The 21 revised full papers and 12 short papers presented together with 4 research experience papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimedia databases and high-dimensional indexing, information retrieval and text indexing, data mining, semistructured data management, data warehousing and federated databases, Web information management and e-commerce, spatio-temporal and high-dimensional information management, data mining and constraint management, data integration and filtering, and workflow and adaptive systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2000, held in Shanghai, China, in June 2000.The 27 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The book is organized in sections on XML: queries and DTD, object-orientation: modeling and implementation, association rules: mining and applications, enterprise information systems and e-commerce, the Web: document management and retrieval, spatial and temporal databases, data warehousing, information retrieval, semi-structured data, agents, rough sets, and learning.