Author Index - A 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 José Ambrosio Toval Álvarez Toward Use Case and Conceptual Models through Business Modeling Wil M. P. van der Aalst Workflow Patterns Daniel J. Abadi Aurora: A Data Stream Management System Aurora: a new model and architecture for data stream management Noureddine Abbadeni Content Representation and Similarity Matching for Texture-based Image Retrieval Amr El Abbadi Hardware Acceleration for Spatial Selections and Joins Approximate Range Selection Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems Disk Allocation for Fast Range and Nearest-Neighbor Queries Optimal Scheduling Algorithms for Tertiary Storage Supporting Sliding Window Queries for Continuous Data Streams Tabular Placement of Relational Data on MEMS-based Storage Devices Alia I. Abdelmoty Spatio-Temporal Geographic Information Systems: A Causal Perspective Ghaleb Abdulla Multi-resolution modeling of large scale scientific simulation data The Evolution of a Hierarchical Partitioning Algorithm for Large-Scale Scientific Data Three Steps of Increasing Complexity Nor Aniza Abdullah Is simple sequencing simple adaptive hypermedia? Naoki Abe Cost-Sensitive Learning by Cost-Proportionate Example Weighting James Abello Hierarchical graph indexing Alberto Abelló Implementing Operations to Navigate Semantic Star Schemas Koen Aben AHA! meets Auld Linky: integrating designed and free-form hypertext systems Karl Aberer Report on the First International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics Call for Book Reviews Book review column Guest editor's introduction P-Grid: a self-organizing structured P2P system Book Reviews, Introduction Serge Abiteboul Exchanging Intensional XML Data Dynamic XML documents with distribution and replication DBGlobe: a service-oriented P2P system for global computing Managing Distributed Workspaces with Active XML Schema-driven Customization of Web Services Ashraf Aboulnaga Building XML statistics for the hidden web Gregory D. Abowd The Family Video Archive - An Annotation and Browsing Environment for Home Movies Roberto Acerbis Architectural Issues and Solutions in the Development of Data-Intensive Web Applications Murali-Krishna Achari Class Decomposition via Clustering: A New Framework for Low-Variance Classifiers Biswajit Acharya Modeling Dynamic Objects in Video Databases: A Logic Based Approach Sumit Acharya Mining Frequent Quer Patterns from XML Queries Sibel Adali Ranked Relations: Concepts, Applications, and Query Languages for Multimedia Giordano Adami Bootstrapping for hierarchical document classification Clustering documents in a web directory Niall M. Adams An iterative hypothesis-testing strategy for pattern discovery B. Aditya User Interaction in the BANKS System A. T. M. Aerts AHA! The adaptive hypermedia architecture Deepak K. Agarwal Applications of sampling and fractional factorial designs to model-free data squashing Nipun Agarwal Supporting Ancillary Values from User Defined Functions in Oracle Pankaj K. Agarwal CRB-Tree: An Efficient Indexing Scheme for Range-Aggregate Queries Charu C. Aggarwal A Framework for Change Diagnosis of Data Streams On nearest neighbor indexing of nonlinear trajectories Foreword Towards systematic design of distance functions for data mining applications XRules: an effective structural classifier for XML data A Framework for Clustering Evolving Data Streams Eugene Agichtein QXtract: A Building Block for Efficient Information Extraction from Plain-Text Databases Querying Text Databases for Efficient Information Extraction Peggy Agouris Modeling and comparing change using spatiotemporal helixes Dakshi Agrawal On nearest neighbor indexing of nonlinear trajectories Divyakant Agrawal Hardware Acceleration for Spatial Selections and Joins Approximate Range Selection Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems Freshness-driven Adaptive Caching for Dynamic Content Disk Allocation for Fast Range and Nearest-Neighbor Queries Optimal Scheduling Algorithms for Tertiary Storage Supporting Sliding Window Queries for Continuous Data Streams Tabular Placement of Relational Data on MEMS-based Storage Devices CachePortal II: Acceleration of Very Large Scale Data Center-Hosted Database-driven Web Applications Gagan Agrawal Efficient decision tree construction on streaming data Geetika Agrawal The BEA/XQRL Streaming XQuery Processor Neeraj Agrawal A bag of paths model for measuring structural similarity in Web documents Rakesh Agrawal Information Sharing Across Private Databases A System for Watermarking Relational Databases Privacy in data systems Database Technologies for E-Commerce Implementing P3P Using Database Technology Automating Layout of Relational Databases Privacy-Preserving Indexing of Documents on the Network Watermarking relational data: framework, algorithms and analysis Sanjay Agrawal Automated Ranking of Database Query Results S. Kagan Agun HAT: a hardware assisted TOP-DOC inverted index component Faisal Ahmad Designing a Language for Creating Conceptual Browsing Interfaces for Digital Libraries A Comparison of Two Educational Resource Discovery Systems Iftekhar Ahmad SVM Based Models for Predicting Foreign Currency Exchange Rates Khurshid Ahmad Summary evaluation and text categorization Shakil Ahmed T-Trees, Vertical Partitioning and Distributed Association Rule Mining Alexander Aiken Winnowing: Local Algorithms for Document Fingerprinting Peter H. Aiken Metadata Engineering for Corporate Portals Using XML Anastassia Ailamaki Time management for new faculty Exposing undergraduate students to database system internals An environmental sensor network to determine drinking water quality and security A Case for Staged Database Systems Lachesis: Robust Database Storage Management Based on Device-specific Performance Characteristics Kiyoharu Aizawa Context-based Video Retrieval System for the Life-log Applications Naoki Akaboshi Event analyzer: a tool for sequential data processing Fuat Akal OLAP Query Evaluation in a Database Cluster: A Performance Study on Intra-Query Parallelism Yusuf Akca CachePortal II: Acceleration of Very Large Scale Data Center-Hosted Database-driven Web Applications Michael O. Akinde Efficient Computation of Subqueries in Complex OLAP Linda Akli BioSci Education Network (BEN) Collaborativ Jacky Akoka Dimension Hierarchies Design from UML Generalizations and Aggregations Conceptual Modeling Quality - From EER to UML Schemas Evaluation Shurug Al-Khalifa Querying Structured Text in an XML Database TIMBER: A Native System for Querying XML Vangalur S. Alagar A Compositional Approach to Multimedia Documents Dynamics Toni Alatalo Storm: using P2P to make the desktop part of the web M. Albanese Dissolve Detection in a video sequence based on Animate Vision Martin Alberink Finding the story: broader applicability of semantics and discourse for hypermedia generation Reda Alhajj Facilitating Fuzzy Association Rules Mining by Using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms for Automated Clustering Integrating Fuzziness into OLAP for Multidimensional Fuzzy Association Rules Mining Kamal Ali Golden Path Analyzer: using divide-and-conquer to cluster Web clickstreams Constantin F. Aliferis Identifying Markov Blankets with Decision Tree Induction Time and sample efficient discovery of Markov blankets and direct causal relations James Allan Relevant query feedback in statistical language modeling Flexible intrinsic evaluation of hierarchical clustering for TDT Retrieval and novelty detection at the sentence level Stemming in the language modeling framework Challenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling Colin Allen Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Dynamic Reference Wor Eileen Allen MetaTest: Evaluation of Metadata from Generation to Use June S. Almenoff Empirical Bayesian data mining for discovering patterns in post-marketing drug safety Gustavo Alonso Scientific Data Repositories: Designing for a Moving Target Are quorums an alternative for data replication? Björn Althun Multimedia Streaming Services - Specification, Implementation, and Retrieval Mehmet Altinel DBCache: Middle-tier Database Caching for Highly Scalable e-Business Architectures Path sharing and predicate evaluation for high-performance XML filtering Cache Tables: Paving the Way for an Adaptive Database Cache Ilkay Altintas Translating Abstract Scientific Workflows into Executable Web Services A Modeling and Execution Environment for Distributed Scientific Workflows Toshiyuki Amagasa QRS: A Robust Numbering Scheme for XML Documents Bernd Amann Exchanging Intensional XML Data Schema-driven Customization of Web Services Sihem Amer-Yahia PIX: Exact and Approximate Phrase Matching in XML LockX: A System for Efficiently Querying Secure XML Approximate Matching in XML XML Publishing: Look at Siblings too! PIX: A System for Phrase Matching in XML Documents Phrase Matching in XML Amihood Amir Efficient Multidimensional Quantitative Hypotheses Generation Analyzing High-Dimensional Data by Subspace Validity Khalil Amiri DBProxy: A dynamic data cache for Web applications Scalable template-based query containment checking for web semantic caches Einat Amitay Multi-resolution disambiguation of term occurrences The connectivity sonar: detecting site functionality by structural patterns Laurent Amsaleg Approximate searches: k-neighbors + precision Robust Content-Based Image Searches for Copyright Protection Aijun An Objective and Subjective Algorithms for Grouping Association Rules Jing An OrientStore: A Schema Based Native XML Storage System Ning An Improving Performance with Bulk-Inserts in Oracle R-Trees Nicolas Anciaux Memory Requirements for Query Execution in Highly Constrained Devices Aaron Andersen Metis: Lightweight, Flexible, and Web-Based Workflow Services for Digital Libraries Kenneth M. Anderson Structure and behavior awareness in themis Metis: Lightweight, Flexible, and Web-Based Workflow Services for Digital Libraries Luis Filipe Andrade Coordination Primitives for Event-based Systems Troels Andreasen Report on FQAS 2002: fifth international conference on flexible query answering systems Periklis Andritsos Schema Discovery P. Angeletti Improving Data Quality in Practice: A Case Study in the Italian Public Administration Peter G. Anick Using terminological feedback for web search refinement: a log-based study Luis E. Anido-Rifón A Conceptual Modelling Framework for Standards-Driven Web-Based Distance Learning Alexander A. Anisimov Sons, Inc 2002 Shireesh Reddy Annam ABHIDHA: An extended WordNet for Indo-Aryan Languages Luca Anselma Towards a Temporal Reasoning Approach Dealing with Instance-of, Part-of and Periodicity Grigoris Antoniou On a Unifying Framework for Comparing Knowledge Representation Schemes Jeffery Antoniuk A light weight PDA-friendly collection fusion technique Amir M. Anvar Intelligent Navigation Process for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) Using Time-based Fuzzy Temporal Reasoning Terumasa Aoki Combining the web content and usage mining to understand the visitor behavior in a web site Adriano S. Arantes Operadores de Seleção por Similaridade para Sistemas de Gerenciamento de Bases de Dados Relacionais Arvind Arasu Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages STREAM: The Stanford Stream Data Manager Query Processing, Approximation, and Resource Management in a Data Stream Management System STREAM: The Stanford Stream Data Manager Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages Filipe Araújo On QoS-Aware Publish Subscribe Valdiana da Silva Araujo Generating rules for incremental maintenance of XML view of relational data Walid G. Aref Spatio-Temporal Access Methods Towards scalable location-aware services: requirements and research issues Spectral LPM: An Optimal Locality-Preserving Mapping using the Spectral (not Fractal) Order Medical Video Mining for Efficient Database Indexing, Management and Access Stream Window Join: Tracking Moving Objects in Sensor-Network Databases Scheduling for shared window joins over data streams Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases Marcelo Arenas Mapping Data in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Semantics and Algorithmic Issues An information-theoretic approach to normal forms for relational and XML data The hyperion project: from data integration to data coordination Managing Data Mappings in the Hyperion Project Lars Arge CRB-Tree: An Efficient Indexing Scheme for Range-Aggregate Queries Tassos Argyros Efficient Subsequence Matching in Time Series Databases Under Time and Amplitude Transformations J. Aníbal Aria Fourth-Phase Digital Libraries: Pacing, Linking, Annotating and Citing in Multimedia Collections 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 Highlight Scene Extraction in Real Time from Baseball Live Video Andrei Arion XQueC: Pushing Queries to Compressed XML Data Timothy Arndt A Visual Editor for Multimedia document management based on the TAO-XML Paradigm Jonathan Arnold IntelliGEN: A Distributed Workflow System for Discovering Protein-Protein Interactions Ismailcem Budak Arpinar Exception Handling for Conflict Resolution in Cross-Organizational Workflows Ghazaleh Ashayer Predicate Matching and Subscription Matching in Publish/Subscribe Systems Javed A. Aslam A unified model for metasearch, pooling, and system evaluation An information-theoretic measure for document similarity On the effectiveness of evaluating retrieval systems in the absence of relevance judgments A unified model for metasearch and the efficient evaluation of retrieval systems via the hedge algorithm Y. Alp Aslandogan Database Research at UT Arlington Eduardo Delgado Assad Using Domain Ontologies to Help Track Data Provenance POESIA: An ontological workflow approach for composing Web services in agriculture Mikhail J. Atallah Rights Protection for Relational Data Reliable Detection of Episodes in Event Sequences Vijayalakshmi Atluri Special issue on the Semantic Web, Guest Editorial Paolo Atzeni Time: A Coordinate for Web Site Modelling Chameleon: an Extensible and Customizable Tool for Web Data Translation Zeyar Aung An Efficient Index-based Protein Structure Database Searching Method Paolo Avesani Bootstrapping for hierarchical document classification Active Sampling for Feature Selection Clustering documents in a web directory Fausto V. M. Ayres Uma Máquina Extensível para Suporte a Novos Modelos de Execução de Consultas Jérôme Azé Impact Studies and Sensitivity Analysis in Medical Data Mining with ROC-based Genetic Learning Leif Azzopardi Investigating the relationship between language model perplexity and IR precision-recall measures ©2004 Association for Computing Machinery