Ramamohanarao Kotagiri – författare

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD-98, held in Melbourne, Australia, in April 1998. The book presents 30 revised full papers selected from a total of 110 submissions; also included are 20 poster presentations. The papers contribute new results to all current aspects in knowledge discovery and data mining on the research level as well as on the level of systems development. Among the areas covered are machine learning, information systems, the Internet, statistics, knowledge acquisition, data visualization, software reengineering, and knowledge based systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD-98, held in Melbourne, Australia, in April 1998. The book presents 30 revised full papers selected from a total of 110 submissions; also included are 20 poster presentations. The papers contribute new results to all current aspects in knowledge discovery and data mining on the research level as well as on the level of systems development. Among the areas covered are machine learning, information systems, the Internet, statistics, knowledge acquisition, data visualization, software reengineering, and knowledge based systems.

The 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), organized jointly by the Asian Institute of Technology, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center and Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, sought to provide information to users and practitioners of database and database systems on advanced applications. The DASFAA conference series has already established itself and it continues to attract, each year, participants from all over the world. In this context, it may be recalled that the previous DASFAA conferences were successfully held in Seoul, Korea (1989), Tokyo, Japan (1991), Daejeon, Korea (1993), Singapore (1995), Melbourne, Australia (1997), Taiwan, ROC (1999), Hong Kong (2001), Kyoto, Japan (2003), Jeju Island, Korea (2004), Beijing, China (2005) and Singapore (2006). Thailand had the opportunity to host this prestigious and important international conference and join the league. This conference provides an international forum for academic exchanges and technical discussions among researchers, developers and users of databases from academia, business and industry. DASFAA focuses on research in database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies and their advanced applications. It also promotes research and development activities in the field of databases among participants and their institutions from Pacific Asia and the rest of the world .

The 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), organized jointly by the Asian Institute of Technology, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center and Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, sought to provide information to users and practitioners of database and database systems on advanced applications. The DASFAA conference series has already established itself and it continues to attract, each year, participants from all over the world. In this context, it may be recalled that the previous DASFAA conferences were successfully held in Seoul, Korea (1989), Tokyo, Japan (1991), Daejeon, Korea (1993), Singapore (1995), Melbourne, Australia (1997), Taiwan, ROC (1999), Hong Kong (2001), Kyoto, Japan (2003), Jeju Island, Korea (2004), Beijing, China (2005) and Singapore (2006). Thailand had the opportunity to host this prestigious and important international conference and join the league. This conference provides an international forum for academic exchanges and technical discussions among researchers, developers and users of databases from academia, business and industry. DASFAA focuses on research in database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies and their advanced applications. It also promotes research and development activities in the field of databases among participants and their institutions from Pacific Asia and the rest of the world .

Welcome to the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2008) which was held in New Delhi, India. DASFAA 2008 continued the tradition of providing an inter- tional forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers and users of database systems from academia, business and industry. Organizing DASFAA 2008 was a very rewarding experience; it gave us an excellent opportunity to work with many ?ne colleagues both within and outside India. We would like to thank Jayant Haritsa and Ramamohanarao Kotagiri for putting together a world-classProgramCommittee. The committee workedvery hardto bring a high-qualitytechnical programto the conference.DASFAA 2008 also included an industrial track co-chaired by Anand Deshpande and Takeshi Fukuda. The conference also featured three tutorials: (1) Preference Query For- lation and Processing: Ranking and Skyline Query Approaches, by Seung-Won Huang and Wolf-Tilo Balke, (2) Stream Processing: Going Beyond Database Management Systems, by Sharma Chakravarthy, and (3) The Semantic Web: Semantics for Data and Services on the Web, by Vipul Kashyap and Christoph Bussler.We would like to thank S. Sudarshan and Kian-lee Tan for their e?ort in organizing the tutorials, Srinath Srinivasa and Wookey Lee for the panels, Prasan Roy and Anthony Tung for the demos, and Sanjay Chawla and Chee- Yong Chan for the workshops.