Author Index - V 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 Arun Vachher Combining multiple classifiers for text categorization Anca Vaduva M4 - A Metamodel for Data Preprocessing Alejandro A. Vaisman Efficient Intensional Redefinition of Aggregation Hierarchies in Multidimensional Databases A Temporal Query Language for OLAP: Implementation and a case Study Raúl E. Valdés-Pérez Demonstration of hierarchical document clustering of digital library retrieval results Patrick Valduriez Processing Queries with Expensive Functions and Large Objects in Distributed Mediator Systems User-Optimizer Communication using Abstract Plans in Sybase ASE PicoDBMS: Validation and Experience PicoDBMS: Scaling down database techniques for the smartcard Rodrigo Valero Debra E. VanderMeer Dynamic content acceleration: a caching solution to enable scalable dynamic Web page generation A Comparative Study of Alternative Middle Tier Caching Solutions to Support Dynamic Web Content Acceleration An architecture to support scalable online personalization on the Web Joseph Vanderwaart Data filtering for automatic classification of rocks from reflectance spectra Francesco Vannotti Data mining techniques to improve forecast accuracy in airline business Vijay Varadharajan Maria Vardaki Modeling Statistical Metadata Moshe Y. Vardi View-based Query Answering and Query Containment over Semistructured Data Vasilis Vassalos The Enosys Markets data integration platform: lessons from the trenches Michael Vassilakopoulos Multiversion Linear Quadtree for Spatio-Temporal Data Bill Vassiliadis Stamatis Vassiliadis Local Distributed Agent Matchmaking Nurit Vatnik Evaluation of prediction models for marketing campaigns Ranga Raju Vatsavai WMS and GML based Interoperable Web Mapping System An efficient query strategy for integrated Remote Sensing and inventory (Spatial) Databases Michalis Vazirgiannis Clustering Validity Assessment: Finding the Optimal Partitioning of a Data Set Clustering Algorithms and Validity Measures A Spatiotemporal Model and Language for Moving Objects on Road Networks François Velin Web Cartography for Online State Promotion: An Algorithm for Clustering Web Resources Pierangelo Veltri Views in a Large Scale XML Repository S. Verba Overview of the virtual data center project and software Felisa Verdejo Browsing by phrases: terminological information in interactive multilingual text retrieval Victor Vianu A Web Odyssey: From Codd to XML XML with Data Values: Typechecking Revisited Representing and Querying XML with Incomplete Information Brian Vickery The Propel Distributed Services Platform Vânia Maria Ponte Vidal Using Agents for Generation and Maintenance of Mediators in a Data Integration system Web VideoGraph K. Vidyasankar Flexible Integration of Optimistic and Pessimistic Concurrency Control in Mobile Environments Narayanan Vijaykrishnan Analyzing energy behavior of spatial access methods for memory-resident data Maurizio Vincini Towards a Comprehensive Methodological Framework for Integration Mahesh Viswanathan Building searchable collections of enterprise speech data Theresa M. Vitolo A hypertext metric based on huffman coding Jeffrey Scott Vitter Flow Computation on Massive Grids Wavelet-Based Cost Estimation for Spatial Queries Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs César M. Vittori Creating XML Documents from Relational Data Sources Ricardo Vivancos-Pérez Towards an electronic variorum dition of Don Quixote Dan Vodislav Views in a Large Scale XML Repository Steffen Volz A Model-Based, Open Architecture for Mobile, Spatially Aware Applications Ellen M. Voorhees Question answering in TREC Evaluation by highly relevant documents Aleksandr Voskoboynik Snowball: a prototype system for extracting relations from large text collections Gottfried Vossen Design and Implementation of a Novel Approach to Keyword Searching in Relational Databases Monotonic complements for independent data warehouses Ahn Ngoc Vo Vector-space ranking with effective early termination Boris Vrdoljak Data Warehouse Design from XML Sources Alessandro Vullo Text categorization for multi-page documents: a hybrid naive Bayes HMM approach DiSC'02 © 2003 Association for Computing Machinery