Table of Contents

• Database, heal thyselfRimma V. Nehme. 4-10 [doi]
• SARD: A statistical approach for ranking database tuning parametersBiplob K. Debnath, David J. Lilja, Mohamed F. Mokbel. 11-18 [doi]
• Probabilistic adaptive load balancing for parallel queriesDaniel M. Yellin, Jorge Buenabad Chávez, Norman W. Paton. 19-26 [doi]
• Automated physical design in database cachesTanu Malik, Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Debabrata Dash, Anastasia Ailamaki. 27-34 [doi]
• Database systems on virtual machines: How much do you lose?Umar Farooq Minhas, Jitendra Yadav, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem. 35-41 [doi]
• On common tools for databases - The case for a client-based index advisorSandeep Tata, Lin Qiao, Guy M. Lohman. 42-49 [doi]
• Poster session: Towards a QoS-aware DBMSJoão Pedro Costa, Pedro Furtado. 50-55 [doi]
• Poster session: ASETS: A self-managing transaction schedulerMohamed A. Sharaf, Shenoda Guirguis, Alexandros Labrinidis, Kirk Pruhs, Panos K. Chrysanthis. 56-62 [doi]
• Poster session: Constrained dynamic physical database designHannes Voigt, Wolfgang Lehner, Kenneth Salem. 63-70 [doi]
• Poster session: Simplifying business intelligence with a hybrid appliance: the IBM balanced warehouseHaider Rizvi, Joyce Coleman, Sam Lightstone. 71-78 [doi]
• COSTES: Continuous spreadsheet-like computationsDamianos Chatziantoniou, Katerina Pramatari, Yannis Sotiropoulos. 82-87 [doi]
• An alert notification facility for RFID event repositoriesValer-Alin Crisan, Ralf Rantzau. 88-93 [doi]
• Interoperable internet scale security framework for RFID networksTingting Mao, John Williams, Abel Sanchez. 94-99 [doi]
• RFIDPROBUS: A universal RFID reader communication protocolYuanxin Ouyang, Qiao Ren, Ting Zhang, Jiuyue Hao, Zhang Xiong. 100-101 [doi]
• Improving supply chain visibility through RFID dataAdam Melski, Jürgen Müller 0003, Alexander Zeier, Matthias Schumann. 102-103 [doi]
• Modelling traceability in the forestry wood supply chainAntti Sirkka. 104-105 [doi]
• A probabilistic approach for cleaning RFID dataHolger Ziekow, Lenka Ivantysynova. 106-107 [doi]
• The role of auto-ID technologies in mobile E-commerce databases (vision paper)Yan Luo, Ouri Wolfson, Bo Xu. 108-109 [doi]
• Message from the DS2ME 08 co-chairsChristine Collet, Thierry Delot, Genoveva Vargas-Solar. 111 [doi]
• A model of approximations for representing time-varying multidimensional dataJosé Moreira, Cristina Ribeiro, Jean-Marc Saglio, Michel Scholl. 113-120 [doi]
• Building reliable mobile services based applicationsAlberto Portilla, Tan Hanh, Javier-Alfonso Espinosa-Oviedo. 121-128 [doi]
• Pre-serialization of long running transactions to improve concurrency in mobile environmentsAngelo Chianese, Antonio d Acierno, Vincenzo Moscato, Antonio Picariello. 129-136 [doi]
• Towards multi-scale query processingVíctor Cuevas-Vicenttín. 137-144 [doi]
• Self-adaptation of a query service using reconfigurable componentsHocine Grine, Sylvain Lecomte. 145-151 [doi]
• Testing mobile agent platforms over the airOscar Urra, Sergio Ilarri, Eduardo Mena. 152-159 [doi]
• LA-GPS : A location-aware geographical pervasive systemDana Al Kukhun, Bouchra Soukkarieh, Érick Lopez-Ornelas, Florence Sedes. 160-163 [doi]
• Managing primary context through web servicesEdgardo Avilés-López, J. Antonio García-Macías. 164-167 [doi]
• OntoNet: Scalable knowledge-based networkingJoseph B. Kopena, Boon Thau Loo. 170-175 [doi]
• Skyline-join in distributed databasesDalie Sun, Sai Wu, Jianzhong Li, Anthony K. H. Tung. 176-181 [doi]
• Rethinking the design of distributed stream processing systemsYongluan Zhou, Karl Aberer, Ali Salehi, Kian-Lee Tan. 182-187 [doi]
• Provenance-aware secure networksWenchao Zhou, Eric Cronin, Boon Thau Loo. 188-193 [doi]
• Fast similarity matching on data stream with noiseZou Peng, Su Liang, Jia Yan, Han WeiHong, Yang ShuQiang. 194-199 [doi]
• Recall-based cluster reformulation by selfish peersGeorgia Koloniari, Evaggelia Pitoura. 200-205 [doi]
• Adaptive in-network query deployment for shared stream processing environmentsOlga Papaemmanouil, Sujoy Basu, Sujata Banerjee. 206-211 [doi]
• DIPBench: An independent benchmark for Data-Intensive Integration ProcessesMatthias Böhm, Dirk Habich, Wolfgang Lehner, Uwe Wloka. 214-221 [doi]
• Speeding up on-the-fly integration of DB and exo-DB dataSudarshan Murthy, David Maier, Lois M. L. Delcambre. 222-229 [doi]
• Integration of relational databases into OWL knowledge bases: demonstration of the DBOM systemOlivier Curé, Jean-David Bensaid. 230-233 [doi]
• Semantic data integration in the DaltOn systemOlivier Curé, Stefan Jablonski, Florent Jochaud, M. Abdul Rehman, Bernhard Volz. 234-241 [doi]
• PLUS: Synthesizing privacy, lineage, uncertainty and securityBarbara T. Blaustein, Len Seligman, Michael Morse, M. David Allen, Arnon Rosenthal. 242-245 [doi]
• On breaching enterprise data privacy through adversarial information fusionSrivatsava Ranjit Ganta, Raj Acharya. 246-249 [doi]
• A call for personal semantic data integrationPatrick Ziegler, Klaus R. Dittrich, Ela Hunt. 250-253 [doi]
• NGS: a framework for multi-domain query answering254-261 [doi]
• Adding structure to web search with itrails [position paper]Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi. 262-265 [doi]
• Augmenting spatio-textual search with an infectious disease ontologyMichael D. Lieberman, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hanan Samet, Jon Sperling. 266-269 [doi]
• Quarrying dataspaces: Schemaless profiling of unfamiliar information sourcesBill Howe, David Maier, Nicolas Rayner, James Rucker. 270-277 [doi]
• Interpreting similarity measures: Bridging the gap between schema matching and data integrationAvigdor Gal. 278-285 [doi]
• Realizing Ontology Based Data Access: A plug-in for protégéMariano Rodriguez-Muro, Lina Lubyte, Diego Calvanese. 286-289 [doi]
• Two-phase schema matching in real world relational databasesNikolaos Bozovic, Vasilis Vassalos. 290-296 [doi]
• Message from the SISAP 08 program committee co-chairsEdgar Chávez, Gonzalo Navarro. 299 [doi]
• Evolving models of biological sequence similarityDaniel P. Miranker. 301-307 [doi]
• The many facets of approximate similarity searchMarco Patella, Paolo Ciaccia. 308-319 [doi]
• HiPeR : Hierarchical progressive exact retrieval in multi dimensional spacesNouha Bouteldja, Valérie Gouet-Brunet, Michel Scholl. 320-329 [doi]
• High-dimensional similarity retrieval using dimensional choiceDave Tahmoush, Hanan Samet. 330-337 [doi]
• Approximate similarity search in genomic sequence databases using landmark-guided embeddingAhmet Sacan, Ismail Hakki Toroslu. 338-345 [doi]
• Visual similarity in sign languageJan Ulrych, Michal Kopecky. 346-353 [doi]
• A contextual normalised edit distanceColin de la Higuera, Luisa Micó. 354-361 [doi]
• Counting distance permutationsMatthew Skala. 362-369 [doi]
• Combining metric features in large collectionsMichal Batko, Petra Kohoutkova, Pavel Zezula. 370-377 [doi]
• Similarity searching: Towards bulk-loading peer-to-peer networksVlastislav Dohnal, Jan Sedmidubský, Pavel Zezula, David Novak. 378-385 [doi]
• An empirical evaluation of a distributed clustering-based index for metric space databasesVeronica Gil Costa, Mauricio Marín, Nora Reyes. 386-393 [doi]
• A dynamic pivot selection technique for similarity searchBenjamin Bustos, Oscar Pedreira, Nieves R. Brisaboa. 394-401 [doi]
• Effective use of space for pivot-based metric indexing structuresCengiz Celik. 402-409 [doi]
• On reinsertions in M-treeJakub Lokoc, Tomás Skopal. 410-417 [doi]
• List of twin clusters: a data structure for similarity joins in metric spacesRodrigo Paredes, Nora Reyes. 418-425 [doi]
• Anytime k-nearest neighbor search for database applicationsWeijia Xu, Daniel P. Miranker, Rui Mao, Smriti R. Ramakrishnan. 426-435 [doi]
• On the complexity of reverse similarity searchMatthew Skala. 436-443 [doi]
• Message from the SSW 08 organizersBhavani M. Thuraisingham, Barbara Carminati. 445 [doi]
• Semantic Web and firewall alignmentSimon N. Foley, William M. Fitzgerald. 447-453 [doi]
• Trust establishment in the formation of Virtual OrganizationsAnna Cinzia Squicciarini, Federica Paci, Elisa Bertino. 454-461 [doi]
• An RDF triple based access authorization specification considering subsumption relationshipsJaehoon Kim, Kangsoo Jung, Seog Park. 462-469 [doi]
• Enabling role-based web access control using a declarative logical frameworkJavier Chamizo, Myriam Mencke, Juan Miguel Gómez, Giner Alor-Hernández. 470-474 [doi]
• Geospatial Resource Description Framework (GRDF) and security constructsAshraful Alam, Latifur Khan, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham. 475-481 [doi]
• Ontology based policy interoperability in geo-spatial domainMohammad Farhan Husain, Mohmmad Alam, Tahseen Al-Khateeb, Latifur Khan. 482-489 [doi]
• Enforcing security in semantics driven policy based networksPalanivel Balaji Kodeswaran, Sethuram Balaji Kodeswaran, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin. 490-497 [doi]
• Exploiting social relations for query expansion and result rankingMatthias Bender, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebastian Michel, Thomas Neumann, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Ralf Schenkel, Gerhard Weikum. 501-506 [doi]
• Using SentiWordNet for multilingual sentiment analysisKerstin Denecke. 507-512 [doi]
• Monitoring the evolution of interests in the blogosphereIraklis Varlamis, Vasilis Vassalos, Antonis Palaios. 513-518 [doi]
• Discovering popular co-cited communities in blogspacesMeng-Fen Chiang, Wen-Chih Peng, Chia-Hao Lo. 519-524 [doi]
• Inferring privacy information via social relationsWanhong Xu, Xi Zhou, Lei Li. 525-530 [doi]
• Building a web of trust without explicit trust ratingsYoung Ae Kim, Minh-Tam Le, Hady Wirawan Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, Haifeng Liu, Jaideep Srivastava. 531-536 [doi]
• Message from the DBRANK 08 program co-chairsVagelis Hristidis, Ihab F. Ilyas. 538 [doi]
• A rank-rewrite framework for summarizing XML documentsMaya Ramanath, Kondreddi Sarath Kumar. 540-547 [doi]
• A general and efficient algorithm for top queriesGoetz Graefe. 548-555 [doi]
• On the semantics and evaluation of top-k queries in probabilistic databasesXi Zhang, Jan Chomicki. 556-563 [doi]
• Automated generation of object summaries from relational databases: A novel keyword searching paradigmGeorgios John Fakas. 564-567 [doi]
• Weighted Boolean conditions for rankingMatthias Beck, Burkhard Freitag. 568-571 [doi]
• Skyline ranking for uncertain data with maybe confidenceHyountaek Yong, Jin-Ha Kim, Seung-won Hwang. 572-579 [doi]
• Adapting ranking functions to user preferenceKeke Chen, Ya Zhang, Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Gordon Sun. 580-587 [doi]
• elGiza, a research-pyramid based search tool for vertical literature digital librariesSulieman Bani-Ahmad, Gultekin Özsoyoglu. 588-595 [doi]
• Ranking multimedia databases via relevance feedback with history and foresight supportMarc Wichterich, Christian Beecks, Thomas Seidl. 596-599 [doi]
• OutRank: ranking outliers in high dimensional dataEmmanuel Müller, Ira Assent, Uwe Steinhausen, Thomas Seidl. 600-603 [doi]