Advances in Databases 19th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 19, Sheffield, UK, July 17-19, 2002. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 2002, held in Sheffield, UK, in July 2002.The 10 revised full papers and 9 posters presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the volume. The book offers topical sections on query processing, data warehousing and data mining, quality and integrity, and web and distributed databases.

Invited Paper.- Have It Your Way: Personalization of Network-Hosted Services.- Query Processing.- Adaptive Query Processing: A Survey.- Improving Query Evaluation with Approximate Functional Dependency Based Decompositions.- Refereed Poster Papers.- The AutoMed Schema Integration Repository.- Global Query Processing in the AutoMed Heterogeneous Database Environment.- Tracing Data Lineage Using Automed Schema Transformation Pathways.- A System for Managing Alternate Models in Model-Based Mediation.- CREAM: A Mediator Based Environment for Modeling and Accessing Distributed Information on the Web.- An Integrated Approach to Handling Collaborative Diagram Databases on the WWW.- Handling Conceptual Multidimensional Models Using XML through DTDs.- Implementing Data Mining in a DBMS.- Fully Dynamic Clustering of Metric Data Sets.- Data Warehousing and Mining.- Real World Association Rule Mining.- Implementation and Comparative Evaluation of Maintenance Policies in a Data Warehouse Environment.- Quality and Integrity.- Establishing a Taxonomy of Quality for Use in Information Filtering.- Improving the Refined Triggering Graph Method for Active Rules Termination Analysis.- An Algorithm for Determining Related Constraints.- Web and Distributed Databases.- Retrieval Performance Experiment with the Webspace Method.- Semantic Integration and Querying of Heterogeneous Data Sources Using a Hypergraph Data Model.- A Document Database Query Language.