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 Soujanya Vadapalli SynDECA: A Tool to Generate Synthetic Datasets for Evaluation of Clustering Algorithms An Architecture for Searching and Indexing Latex Equations in Scientific Literature Zografoula Vagena Rotation invariant indexing of shapes and line drawings Tree-Pattern Queries on a Light-weight XML Processor Karan Vahi Simplifying Construction of Complex Workflows for Non-Expert Users of the Southern California Earthquake Center Community Modeling Environment Jaideep Vaidya Privacy - preserving top-k queries Knowledge discovery from transportation network data Alejandro A. Vaisman Peer-To-Peer Databases for e-Science: a Biodiversity Case Study Shivakumar Vaithyanathan OLAP Over Uncertain and Imprecise Data Dalton M. Valeriano Mining Patterns of Change in Remote Sensing Image Databases Satyanarayana R. Valluri Partially Materialized Partitioned Views Marc Vancanneyt Knowledge accumulation and resolution of data inconsistencies during the integration of microbial information sources Kristin Vanderbilt NSF Long Term Ecological Research Sites: Praxis et Theoria - LTER Information Management and CS Research Stijn Vansummeren Deciding Well-Definedness of XQuery Fragments Vanitha Varadarajan Integrating data from disparate sources: a mass collaboration approach Giannis Varelas Semantic similarity methods in wordNet and their application to information retrieval on the web Luis Vargas Integrating Databases with Publish/Subscribe Joshua Varner Exploiting ontologies for automatic image annotation Theodora A. Varvarigou STAVIES: a system for information extraction from unknown Web data sources through automatic Web wrapper generation using clustering techniques Nuno Vasconcelos A database centric view of semantic image annotation and retrieval Vasilis Vassalos DAIMON: Data Integration for a Mobile Network Theo Vassilakis Data Cleaning in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Panos Vassiliadis Report on the International Workshop on Pattern Representation and Management (PaRMa'04) Optimizing ETL processes in data warehouses ETL Queues for Active Data Warehousing State-space optimization of ETL workflows Computing and managing cardinal direction relations Michalis Vazirgiannis A Framework for Semi-Supervised Learning based on Subjective and Objective Clustering Criteria Usage-based PageRank for Web Personalization The role of caching and context-awareness in P2P service discovery Web path recommendations based on page ranking and Markov models Olga Vechtomova Methodologies and Evaluation of Lexical Cohesion Techniques in Real-world Applications (ELECTRA 2005) Lourens Veen Fine-Grained Replication and Scheduling with Freshness and Correctness Guarantees Jari Veijalainen Invariant aspects in M-commerce environments Helmut Veith Deterministic CTL Query Solving Yannis Velegrakis Representing and querying data transformations Adriano Veloso Rule Generation and Rule Selection Techniques for Cost-Sensitive Associative Classification Santosh Vempala A Divide-and-Merge Methodology for Clustering Naga Srinivas Vemuri Schema mapper: a visualization tool for DL integration Venkateshwaran Venkataramani Automatic Performance Diagnosis and Tuning in Oracle Jhansi Rani Vennam SynDECA: A Tool to Generate Synthetic Datasets for Evaluation of Clustering Algorithms Roel Vercammen LiXQuery: A Formal Foundation for XQuery Research On the Expressive Power of Node Construction in XQuery Akshat Verma QoSMig: adaptive rate-controlled migration of bulk data in storage systems Keshri Verma Efficient Calendar Based Temporal Association Rule Sudhir Verma Automated cleansing for spend analytics Victor Vianu A Verifier for Interactive, Data-Driven Web Applications Views and Queries: Determinacy and Rewriting In memory of Seymour Ginsburg Brian Vickery System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML Maria-Esther Vidal A Data Model and Query Language to Explore Enhanced Links and Paths in Life Science Sources Marina Teresa Pires Vieira SSDM: A Semantically Similar Data Mining Algorithm Stratis Viglas Vectorizing and querying large XML repositories Gaurav Vijayvargiya DBNotes: A Post-It System for Relational Databases based on Provenance Ricardo Vilalta Adaptive Clustering: Obtaining Better Clusters Using Feedback and Past Experience Roy Villafane ADMiRe: an algebraic data mining approach to system performance analysis Roger Villemaire Configuration Logic: A multi-site Modal Logic Millist W. Vincent Functional Dependency Driven Auxiliary Relation Selection for Materialized Views Maintenance Fabio Vitali From the writable web to global editability Jeffrey Scott Vitter The Indiana Center for Database Systems at Purdue University CXHist : An On-line Classification-Based Histogram for XML String Selectivity Estimation Michail Vlachos Rotation invariant indexing of shapes and line drawings The threshold join algorithm for top-k queries in distributed sensor networks David Vogel Classifying Search Engine Queries Using the Web as Background Knowledge Stephan Vogel Mining translations of OOV terms from the web through cross-lingual query expansion Bruce Vollmer A Robust, Low-Cost Virtual Archive for Science Data Ellen M. Voorhees The TREC robust retrieval track Epimenidis Voutsakis Semantic similarity methods in wordNet and their application to information retrieval on the web Arjen P. de Vries Relevance information: a loss of entropy but a gain for IDF? Workshop on the evaluation of multimedia retrieval Long Vu Mapping Maintenance for Data Integration Systems Quang Hieu Vu BATON: A Balanced Tree Structure for Peer-to-Peer Networks O. P. Vyas Efficient Calendar Based Temporal Association Rule V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran Learning to extract information from large websites using sequential models ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery