Author Index - V Authors are sorted by last name below: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Jaideep Vaidya Privacy-preserving k-means clustering over vertically partitioned data Privacy-Preserving K-Means Clustering over Vertically Partitioned Data Patrick Valduriez Cherry Picking: A Semantic Query Processing Strategy for the Evaluation of Expensive Predicates David Valentine Content Access Characterization in Digital Libraries Jeanne VanBriesen An environmental sensor network to determine drinking water quality and security Renaud Vanlande Managing IFC for civil engineering projects Vijay Varadharajan On the Analysis of On-Line Database Reorganization Moshe Y. Vardi View-based query containment Reasoning on regular path queries Iraklis Varlamis SEWeP: using site semantics and a taxonomy to enhance the Web personalization process SEWeP: Using Site Semantics and a Taxonomy to Enhance the Web Personalization Process THESUS: Organizing Web document collections based on link semantics Rohit Varma Query Processing, Approximation, and Resource Management in a Data Stream Management System STREAM: The Stanford Stream Data Manager Olegas Vasilecas A Framework to Analyse and Evaluate Information Systems Specification Languages Michael Vassilakopoulos Multiversion Linear Quadtree for Spatio-Temporal Data The Impact of Buffering on Closest Pairs Queries Using R-Trees Approximate Algorithms for Distance-Based Queries in High-Dimensional Data Spaces Using R-Trees Generating Dynamic Raster Data Bill Vassiliadis Towards Intelligent Information Retrieval Engines: A Multi-agent Approach 2-D Spatial Indexing Scheme in Optimal Time Panos Vassiliadis Report on the 5th international workshop on the design and management of data warehouses (DMDW'03) Advanced Visualization for OLAP Yannis Vassiliou Advanced Visualization for OLAP Michalis Vazirgiannis DBGlobe: a service-oriented P2P system for global computing SEWeP: using site semantics and a taxonomy to enhance the Web personalization process SEWeP: Using Site Semantics and a Taxonomy to Enhance the Web Personalization Process THESUS: Organizing Web document collections based on link semantics Richard Vdovjak An RMM-Based Methodology for Hypermedia Presentation Design G. Della Vecchia Video on Demand System Accessibility Enhancement Vivek Vedagiri HyperThesis: the gRNA spell on the curse of bioinformatics applications integration Mettina Veenstra Finding the story: broader applicability of semantics and discourse for hypermedia generation Sriharsha Veeramachaneni Active Sampling for Feature Selection Juan D. Velásquez Combining the web content and usage mining to understand the visitor behavior in a web site Yannis Velegrakis Mapping Adaptation under Evolving Schemas Adriano Veloso Mining Frequent Itemsets in Distributed and Dynamic Databases Ramansprasad Vemulapati Creation of data resources and design of an evaluation test bed for Devanagari script recognition P. Venkatachalam GRAM++ - An Indigenous GIS Software Suite Demonstration Rajagopal Venugopal Tree-structured Partitioning Based on Splitting Histograms of Distances Edward Verbree Construction of the planar partition postal code map based on cadastral registration Barry Vercoe Structural Analysis of Musical Signals for Indexing and Thumbnailing Nathalie Moreno Vergara Putting the Semantic Web to Work with DB Technology Vassilios S. Verykios Improving Data Quality in Practice: A Case Study in the Italian Public Administration A Bayesian decision model for cost optimal record matching Gregg T. Vesonder Data quality through knowledge engineering Victor Vianu A Web odyssey: from codd to XML Incremental Validation of XML Documents XML: from practice to theory Maria-Esther Vidal XWebSOGO: an ontology language to describe and query web sources Vânia Maria Ponte Vidal Generating rules for incremental maintenance of XML view of relational data K. Vidyasankar Flexible Integration of Optimistic and Pessimistic Concurrency Control in Mobile Environments Humberto Vieira XVerter: querying XML data with OR-DBMS Marco Vieira A Dependability Benchmark for OLTP Application Environments Marcos R. Vieira Operadores de Seleção por Similaridade para Sistemas de Gerenciamento de Bases de Dados Relacionais Marina T. Pires Vieira Mining Class-Dependent Rules Using the Concept of Generalization/Specialization Hierarchies Monique V. Vieira The Web-DL Environment for Building Digital Libraries from the Web Stratis Viglas Evaluating Window Joins over Unbounded Streams Mixed Mode XML Query Processing Maximizing the Output Rate of Multi-Way Join Queries over Streaming Information Sources Sebastiano Vigna Multirelational Semantics for ExtendedEntity-Relationship Schemata with Applications Ricardo Vilalta Class Decomposition via Clustering: A New Framework for Low-Variance Classifiers Critical event prediction for proactive management in large-scale computer clusters Millist W. Vincent Local XML functional dependencies Patrick Vinograd Peer-to-peer research at Stanford Paola Virga Transliteration of proper names in cross-language applications Olli Virmajoki Fast PNN-based Clustering Using K-nearest Neighbor Graph Mirko Viroli Tuple-Based Coordination Models in Event-Based Scenarios Kari Visala Fuzzy translation of cross-lingual spelling variants Giuliana Vitiello Phenomena: a visual query language for continuous fields Jeffrey Scott Vitter SASH: A Self-Adaptive Histogram Set for Dynamically Changing Workloads Michail Vlachos Indexing multi-dimensional time-series with support for multiple distance measures Indexing Multi-Dimensional Time-Series with Support for Multiple Distance Measures Efficient Approximation of Optimization Queries Under Parametric Aggregation Constraints Agnès Voisard Web spatial databases with applications to GIS Raphael Volz Optimizing Query Answering in Description Logics using Disjunctive Deductive Databases Jochem Vonk Cross-Organizational Transaction Support for E-Services in Virtual Enterprises Ellen M. Voorhees Challenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling Summary of the SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Defining Evaluation Methodologies for Terabyte-Scale Test Collections Gottfried Vossen Reminiscences an Influential Papers Design and Implementation of a Novel Approach to Keyword Searching in Relational Databases On the computation of relational view complements Mladen Vouk A Modeling and Execution Environment for Distributed Scientific Workflows Jens-S. Vöckler The Virtual Data Grid: A New Model and Architecture for Data-Intensive Collaboration Susan V. Vrbsky Closing the key loophole in MLS databases Arjen P. de Vries Experimental result analysis for a generative probabilistic image retrieval model Bogdan Vrusias Summary evaluation and text categorization Khanh Vu VideoGraph: A Graphical Object-Based Model for Representing and Querying Video Data Slobodan Vucetic Exploiting Unlabeled Data for Improving Accuracy of Predictive Data Mining ©2004 Association for Computing Machinery