Shuigeng Zhou - Böcker

We would like to welcome you to the proceedings of the workshops held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2004). The objective of the workshops associated with ER 2004 was to give p- ticipants the opportunity to present and discuss emerging hot topics related to conceptual modeling, thereby adding new perspectives to conceptual mod- ing. To meet the objective, we selected six workshops with topics on conceptual modelingforWebinformationintegration,digitalgovernment,GIS,changem- agement, e-business, and agent technology. Some of these workshopswere brand new while others had been held in conjunction with ER conferences as many as ?ve times. They are: 1. 1stInternationalWorkshoponConceptualModel-DirectedWebInformation Integration and Mining (CoMWIM 2004) 2. 1st International Workshop on Digital Government: Systems and Techno- gies (DGOV 2004) 3. 1st International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for GIS (CoMoGIS 2004) 4. 3rd International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management (ECDM 2004) 5. 1st International Workshop on Conceptual Modelling for Agents (CoMoA 2004) 6.5th International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Approaches for E-Business (The Model-Driven Design Value Proposition) (eCOMO 2004) These six workshops received 38, 16, 58, 21, 17, and 13 papers, respectively. Following the philosophy of the ER workshops, the selection of contributions was very carefully carried out in order to keep the excellent standard; 13, 6, 16, 8, 7, and 6 papers were accepted by the six workshops, respectively, with acceptance rates 34%, 37%, 27%, 38%, 41%, and 46%, respectively.

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 workshop proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2011, held in Hong Kong, China, in April 2011. The volume contains six workshops, each focusing on specific research issues that contribute to the main themes of the DASFAA conference: The First International Workshop on Graph-structured Data Bases (GDB 2011); the First International Workshop on Spatial Information Modeling, Management and Mining (SIM3 2011); the International Workshop on Flash-based Database Systems (FlashDB 2011); the Second International Workshop on Social Networks and Social Media Mining on the Web (SNSMW 2011); the First International Workshop on Data Management for Emerging Network Infrastructures (DaMEN 2011); and the Fourth International Workshop on Data Quality in Integration Systems (DQIS 2011).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2012, held in Nanjing, China, in December 2012. The 32 regular papers and 32 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: social media mining; clustering; machine learning: algorithms and applications; classification; prediction, regression and recognition; optimization and approximation; mining time series and streaming data; Web mining and semantic analysis; data mining applications; search and retrieval; information recommendation and hiding; outlier detection; topic modeling; and data cube computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ADMA 2012 Workshops: The International Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining, SNAM 2012, and the International Workshop on Social Media Mining, Retrieval and Recommendation Technologies, SMR 2012, Nanjing, China, in December 2012. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on networks and graphs processing; social Web; social information diffusion; social image retrieval and visualization.