Table Of ContentDatabases and Information Systems 11
Databases and Information
Systems 11
Fifth International Baltic Conference, Baltic DB&IS'2002
Tallinn, Estonia, June 3-6, 2002
Selected Papers
Edited by
HELE-MAI HAAV
Institute 0/ Cybernetics at Tallinn Technical University,
Tallinn, Estonia
and
AHTOKALJA
Department 0/ Computer Engineering 0/ Tallinn Technical University,
Tallinn, Estonia
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.Y.
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Table of Contents
Conference Committee..................................................... ix
Preface........................................................................ xiii
Distributed Databases
Fragmentation of Object Oriented and Semi-structured Data ......... .
Klaus-Dieter Schewe
Value Reconciliation in Mediators of Heterogeneous Information
Collections Applying Well-Structured Context Specifications..... .... 15
Dmitry O. Briukhov, Leonid A. Kalinichenko, Nikolay A.
Skvortsov, Sergey A. Stupnikov
Reactive Load Balancing in Distributed Database Management
Systems........................................................................ 29
Josep M. Muixi, August Climent, Si/via Canals
Undeniable Database Queries. .... ..................... ......... ........ .... 43
Ahto Buldas, Meelis Roos, Jan Willemson
TOLAP: Temporal Online Analytical Processing..................... ... 55
Ola/Herden
XML and Databases
XML Data Warehouse: Modelling and Querying........... ............. 67
Jaroslav Pokorny
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The XML Query Execution Engine (XEE). . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 81
Dieter Scheffner, Johann-Christoph Freytag
Offering User Profile as an XML Web Service.......... ................ 95
Anne Marie Hartvigsen, Tore E. Jr;nvik, Do van Thanh
Information Systems Development
Shared Conceptualisation of Business Systems, Information
Systems and Supporting Software.. ..... .......... ......... ........ .... ... 109
Albertas Caplinskas, Audrone Lupeikiene, Olegas Vasilecas
Concept of Intelligent Enterprise Memory for Integration of two
Approaches to Knowledge Management ................................. 121
Janis Grundspenkis
Knowledge Representation in Advisory Information System of
Crime Investigation Domain .... ............ ............ ................... 135
Dale Dzemydiene, Egle Kazemikaitiene, Rimantas Petrauskas
Information Systems and Software Engineering
Semantics for Managing Systems in Heterogeneous and Distributed
Environment........... ............ ... ... ............... ... ........... .... .... 149
Guntis Arnicans, Girts Karnitis
Ontological Intermediation between Business Process Models and
Software Components ................................. ...................... 161
Thorsten Teschke
Extended Use of a TraceabiIity Tool within Software Development
Project ......................................................................... 175
Martins Gills, Mihails Bogdanovs
Measurements and Risks Based Method to Support Software
Development Process Planning ....... ................... ................... 187
BaibaApine
Reduction of UML Class Diagrams. ...... .... ......... ..... .............. 199
Girts Linde
Mobile Computing, Databases, and Agents
Incorporating Mobility into an Agent Interoperability-based
Environment........ ......... ... ... ...... ... ........... ............... ... ..... 209
Mihhail Matskin, Arkady Zaslavsky
An Extensible Storage Manager for Mobile DBMS.. .............. ..... 225
Erik Buchmann, Hagen Höpfner and Kai-Uwe Sattler
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Towards Multi-Agent Models of Domain-Specific Languages........ 239
Merik Meriste, Tönis Kelder, Jüri Helekivi
E-MAT E: an Open Architecture to Support Mobility of Users........ 253
Davide Carboni, Sylvain Giroux, Eloisa Vargiu, Claude Moulin,
Stejano Sanna, Alessandro Soro, Gavino Paddeu
Specification and Implementation of Mobile-Agent-Based Data
Integration.. ............ ....................... ............... .......... ....... 269
Peter Ahlbrecht, Jan Röver
Data Mining
Data Mining Techniques in Predicting Default Rates on Customer
Loans........................................................................... 285
JozejZurada
Efficient Constraint-Based Sequential Pattern Mining Using Dataset
Filtering Techniques......................................................... 297
Tadeusz Morzy, Marek Wojciechowski, Maciej Zakrzewicz
A Parametrizable Task-adaptive NE-Recognition System............. 311
Jakub Piskorski, Ti/man Jäger, Feiyu Xu
Author Index....... . ........... . ........ . ........... . ........... ... ......... 327
Subject Index. . .. ............ ......... . ........... . ........... . ........... . .. 329
Conference Committee
Honorary General Chair
Andres Keevallik, Tallinn Technical University (TTU), Estonia
Organising Co-Chairs:
Margus Kruus, Department of Computer Engineering of TTU, Estonia
Sulev Kuiv, Institute of Cybemetics at TTU, Estonia
Co-ordinators
Saulius Maskeliunas, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania
Juris Borzovs, Riga Institute of Information Technology, Latvia
Janis Barzdins, University of Latvia, Latvia
Hannu Jaakkola, Pori School of Technology and Economies, Tampere UT,
Finland
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs:
Jaan Penjam, Institute of Cybemetics at TTU, Estonia
Mait Harf, Institute of Cybemetics at TTU, Estonia
Publicity Chair:
Monika Perkmann, Institute of Cybemetics at TTU, Estonia
x Conference Committee
Publishing Chair:
Rein Löugas, Institute of Cybernetics at TTU, Estonia
Registration Chair:
Marje Tamm, Institute of Cybernetics at TTU, Estonia
Programme Co-Chairs:
Hele-Mai Haav, Institute of Cybernetics at TTU, Estonia
Ahto Kalja, Department of Computer Engineering of TTU, Estonia
Programme Committee:
Witold Abramowicz, Poland
Janis Barzdins, Latvia
Juris Borzovs, Latvia
Albertas Caplinskas, Lithuania
Johann Eder, Austria
Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Germany
Jorgen Fischer Nilsson, Denmark
Janis Grundspenkis, Latvia
Remigijus Gustas, Sweden
Leonid Kalinichenko, Russia
Hannu Kangassalo, Finland
Patrick Lambrix, Sweden
Jozef M. Zurada, USA
Saulius Maskeliunas, Lithuania
Mihhail Matskin, Norway
Boris Novikov, Russia
Monika Oit, Estonia
Algirdas Pakstas, UK
Jaan Penjam, Estonia
Jaroslav Pokorny, Czech Republic
Gunter Saake, Germany
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, New Zealand
Jaak Tepandi, Estonia
Bernhard Thalheim, Germany
Do van Thanh, Norway
Enn Tyugu, Estonia
Olegas Vasilecas, Lithuania
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Benkt Wangler, Sweden
Tatjana WeIzer, Slovenia
Naoki Yonezaki, Japan
Arkady Zaslavsky, Australia
Additional Referees
Peter Ahlbrecht, Germany
Per Backlund, Sweden
Ahto Buldas, Estonia
Marjan Druzovec, Sweden
Silke Eckstein, Germany
J anis Eiduks, Latvia
Asa G. Dahlstedt, Sweden
Ingolf Geist, Germany
Hele-Mai Haav, Estonia
Thomas Herstel, Germany
Marko Kääramees, Estonia
Roland Kaschek, New Zealand
Susanne Kjernald, Sweden
Vahur Kotkas, Estonia
Marek Kowalkiewicz, Poland
Margot, Lepasaar, Estonia
Karl Neumann, Germany
Oksana Nikiforovs, Latvia
Ralf Pinger, Germany
Robert Redpath, Australia
Pavel Rusakovs, Latvia
Lena Strömbäck, Sweden
Juha Takkinen, Sweden
Tarmo Uustalu, Estonia
Juris Viksna, Latvia
Jj1)rgen Villadsen, Denmark
Jan Villemson, Estonia
Krzysztof Wecel, Poland
Advisory Committee:
Janis Bubenko, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Arne Solvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Preface
Databases and database systems in particular, are considered as kerneIs of
any Information System (IS). The rapid growth of the web on the Internet has
dramatically increased the use of semi-structured data and the need to store
and retrieve such data in a database. The database community quickly reacted
to these new requirements by providing models for semi-structured data and
by integrating database research to XML web services and mobile
computing.
On the other hand, IS community who never than before faces problems
of IS development is seeking for new approaches to IS design. Ontology
based approaches are gaining popularity, because of a need for shared
conceptualisation by different stakeholders of IS development teams. Many
web-based IS would fail without domain ontologies to capture meaning of
terms in their web interfaces.
This volume contains revised versions of 24 best papers presented at the
5th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems
(BalticDB&IS'2002). The conference papers present original research results
in the novel fields of IS and databases such as web IS, XML and databases,
data mining and knowledge management, mobile agents and databases, and
UML based IS development methodologies. The book's intended readers are
researchers and practitioners who are interested in advanced topics on
databases and IS.
The BalticDB&IS series of conferences aim at providing to relevant
academics and practitioners a wide international forum for exchanging their
achievements in the field of databases and IS. The objective ofthe conference
was to bring together researchers as weIl as practitioners and PhD students to
present their work and to exchange their ideas, and trigger co-operation.
The 5th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information
Systems (BalticDB&IS'2002) took place on June 3-6, 2002, in Tallinn,
