Author Index - A Conference authors are indexed 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 Amr El Abbadi Applying the golden rule of sampling for query estimation Efficient Processing of Conical Queries Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searching in Multimedia Databases Flexible Data Cubes for Online Aggregation Storage and Retrieval of Moving Objects Constrained Nearest Neighbor Queries Discovery of Influence Sets in Frequently Updated Databases Guest editorial EL Hassan Abdelwahed A Multiple Layered Functional Data Model to Support Multiple Representations and Interoperability of GIS: Application to Urban Management Systems Ghaleb Abdulla Approximate ad-hoc query engine for simulation data Alberto Abelló Understanding Facts in a Multidimensional Object-Oriented Model David J. Abel The Internet Marketplace Template: An Architecture Template for Inter-enterprise Information Systems Karl Aberer Managing trust in a peer-2-peer information system P-Grid: A Self-Organizing Access Structure for P2P Information Systems Modelling the ICE Standard with a Formal Language for Information Commerce Serge Abiteboul Monitoring XML data on the Web Representing and Querying XML with Incomplete Information Change-Centric Management of Versions in an XML Warehouse Are Web Services the Next Revolution in e-Commerce? (Panel) Ashraf Aboulnaga Window Query Processing in Linear Quadtrees Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications Silvia Mara Abrahão An Object-Oriented Approach to Automate Web Applications Development Dennis Abrazhevich Classification and Characteristics of Electronic Payment Systems Man Abrol Navigating large-scale semi-structured data in business portals Dimitris Achlioptas Database-friendly random projections Nabil R. Adam Efficient Splitting Rules Based on the Probabilities of Pre-assigned Intervals Richard Adderley Data mining case study: modeling the behavior of offenders who commit serious sexual assaults Nicolas Adiba The Propel Distributed Services Platform Jafar Adibi Optimization of Sequence Queries in Database Systems A Sequential Pattern Query Language for Supporting Instant Data Mining for e-Services Asaf Adi Monitoring business processes through event correlation based on dependency model David W. Adler DB2 Spatial Extender - Spatial data within the RDBMS Mohamed El Adnani A Multiple Layered Functional Data Model to Support Multiple Representations and Interoperability of GIS: Application to Urban Management Systems Foto N. Afrati Generating efficient plans for queries using views Nipun Agarwal Developing an Indexing Scheme for XML Document Collection using the Oracle8i Extensibility Framework Ramesh C. Agarwal Mining needle in a haystack: classifying rare classes via two-phase rule induction Block Oriented Processing of Relational Database Operations in Modern Computer Architectures Evaluating Boosting Algorithms to Classify Rare Classes: Comparison and Improvements Mikkel Agesen A Split Operator for Now-Relative Bitemporal Databases Charu C. Aggarwal Outlier detection for high dimensional data On the Design and Quantification of Privacy Preserving Data Mining Algorithms On the Effects of Dimensionality Reduction on High Dimensional Similarity Search Effective nearest neighbor indexing with the euclidean metric On Effective Conceptual Indexing and Similarity Search in Text Data On the Surprising Behavior of Distance Metrics in High Dimensional Spaces A human-computer cooperative system for effective high dimensional clustering Mining massively incomplete data sets by conceptual reconstruction Towards Long Pattern Generation in Dense Databases Eugene Agichtein Snowball: a prototype system for extracting relations from large text collections Alice M. Agogino Design principles for the information architecture of a SMET education digital library Nitin Agrarwal Applications of generalized support vector machines to predictive modeling Dakshi Agrawal On the Design and Quantification of Privacy Preserving Data Mining Algorithms Divyakant Agrawal Applying the golden rule of sampling for query estimation Enabling dynamic content caching for database-driven web sites Efficient Processing of Conical Queries Engineering High Performance Database-Driven E-commerce Web Sites through Dynamic Content Caching Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searching in Multimedia Databases Flexible Data Cubes for Online Aggregation Storage and Retrieval of Moving Objects Constrained Nearest Neighbor Queries Discovery of Influence Sets in Frequently Updated Databases Cache Portal: Technology for Accelerating Database-driven e-commerce Web Sites Rakesh Agrawal Storage and Querying of E-Commerce Data Are Web Services the Next Revolution in e-Commerce? (Panel) Sanjay Agrawal Materialized view and index selection tool for Microsoft SQL server 2000 Fernando Aguiar Improvement of Web retrieval by the use of contextual information of pages Anastassia Ailamaki Weaving Relations for Cache Performance Tinghua Ai A Map Generalization Model Based on Algebra Mapping Transformation Yusuf Akca Cache Portal: Technology for Accelerating Database-driven e-commerce Web Sites Michael O. Akinde The MD-join: An Operator for Complex OLAP Demet Aksoy Data Staging for On-Demand Broadcast Lina Al-Jadir Encapsulating Classification in an OODBMS for Data Mining Applications Khalid Al-Kofahi Combining multiple classifiers for text categorization Suad Alagic A Model Theory for Generic Schema Management Alaa R. Alameldeen Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications Dietrich Albert Extending eductional metadata schemas to describe adaptive learning resources Natasha Alechina Path Constraints from a Modal Logic Point of View Mohammed Aljlayl Effective arabic-english cross-language information retrieval via machine-readable dictionaries and machine translation James Allan Temporal Summaries of News Topics Colin Allen Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy: a dynamic reference work Eileen Allen Breaking the metadata generation bottleneck: preliminary findings Valerie S. Allen Building the physical sciences information infrastructure a phased approach Searching the deep web: distributed explorit directed query applications Fernando Alonso Discovering Similar Patterns for Characterising Time Series in a Medical Domain Gustavo Alonso Dependable Computing in Virtual Laboratories Noga Alon XML with Data Values: Typechecking Revisited Adil Alpkocak PAMIR: Parallel Multimedia information Retrieval System Micah Altman Overview of the virtual data center project and software Russ B. Altman Challenges for knowledge discovery in biology Makoto Amamiya Pinpoint Web Searching and User Modeling on the Collaborative Kodama Agents Satoshi Amamiya Pinpoint Web Searching and User Modeling on the Collaborative Kodama Agents José Luis Ambite Efficiently Querying Moving Objects with Pre-defined Paths in a Distrituted Environment The WorlInfo Assistant: Spatio-Temporal Information Integration on the Web VXMLR: A Visual XML-Relational Database System Amedea Ambrosetti SIT-IN: a Real-Life Spatio-Temporal Information System Sihem Amer-Yahia Minimization of tree pattern queries Amihood Amir Analyzing Quantitative Databases: Image is Everything Arnon Amir Towards speech as a knowledge resource Advances in phonetic word spotting Mercedes Amor Supporting Heterogeneous Users in Collaborative Virtual Environments Using AOP Laurent Amsaleg A Robust Technique to Recognize Objects in Images, and the DB Problems it Raises Nicolas Anciaux PicoDBMS: Validation and Experience Jeff Anderson-Lee TilePic: a file format for tiled hierarchical data Michael Anderson Knowledge Discovery from Diagrammatically Represented Data Rie Kubota Ando Iterative residual rescaling L. Andreev Overview of the virtual data center project and software Mihnea Andrei User-Optimizer Communication using Abstract Plans in Sybase ASE Keith Andrew An atmospheric visualization collection for the NSDL Marc Andries Applying an update method to a set of receivers Mihael Ankerst Human Involvement and Interactivity of the Next Generation's Data Mining Tools Kfir Ankori A domain independent environment for creating information extraction modules Suhail Ansari Integrating E-Commerce and Data Mining: Architecture and Challenges Aijun An Comparisons of Classification Methods for Screening Potential Compounds Ning An Selectivity Estimation for Spatial Joins Analyzing energy behavior of spatial access methods for memory-resident data Peter M. G. Apers Predicting the cost-quality trade-off for information retrieval queries: facilitating database design and query optimization Flexible and scalable digital library search Chidanand Apté Segmentation-based modeling for advanced targeted marketing Avi Arampatzis The score-distributional threshold optimization for adaptive binary classification tasks Walid G. Aref Irregularity in multi-dimensional space-filling curves with applications in multimedia databases Window Query Processing in Linear Quadtrees An Extensible Index for Spatial Databases Query Processing in Broadcasted Spatial Index Trees Marcelo Arenas Scalar Aggregation in FD-Inconsistent Databases Lars Arge Flow Computation on Massive Grids Masatoshi Arikawa An Advanced Processing Environment for Managing the Continuous and Semistructured Features of Multimedia Content Yasuo Ariki An Advanced Processing Environment for Managing the Continuous and Semistructured Features of Multimedia Content Caroline Arms The open archives initiative (panel session): perspectives on metadata harvesting William Y. Arms High tech or high touch (panel session): automation and human mediation in libraries Avital Arora Perception of content, structure, and presentation changes in Web-based hypertext Managing change on the web Francisco J. Artigas Customized Geospatial Workflows for E-Government Services Takuya Asada Effects and Performance of Content Negotiation Based on CC/PP Denis E. Ashley The virtual naval hospital: the digital library as knowledge management tool for nomadic patrons Joan Ash Bundles in Captivity: An Application of Superimposed Information Javad A. Aslam Javed A. Aslam Relevance score normalization for metasearch Models for metasearch Metasearch consistency Malcolm P. Atkinson A Database Index to Large Biological Sequences Vijayalakshmi Atluri Customized Geospatial Workflows for E-Government Services Yonatan Aumann A domain independent environment for creating information extraction modules Wai-Ho Au Classification with Degree of Membership: A Fuzzy Approach Arnulfo P. Azcarraga Extracting meaningful labels for WEBSOM text archives SOM-Based Methodology for Building Large Text Archives DiSC'02 © 2003 Association for Computing Machinery