WAIM 2001 -- Advanced Program

July 9, 2001 July 10, 2001 July 11, 2001
9:00am - 10:30am Tutorial 1A
Technologies for E-Business Solutions		 Joint Session 1: Keynote Speech (TBA) Joint Session 3: Keynote Speech (TBA)
10:30am - 11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am - 12:30pm Tutorial 1B
Continue.		 Session 1A
Multimedia Databases & High Dimensional Indexing		 Session 1B
Information Retrieval & Text Indexing		 Session 3A
Data Warehousing & Federated Databases 

 

 Session 3B
Web Information Management and E-commerce 
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm - 3:30pm Tutorial 2A
Content-based Retrieval from Multimedia Databases		 Session 2A
Data Mining 

 

 Session 2B
Semistructured Data Management		 Session 4A
Temporal, Spatial & High Dimensional Information Management		 Session 4B
Data Mining & Constraint Management
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Coffee Break
4:00pm - 5:30pm Tutorial 2B
Continue.		 Joint Session 2: 
Panel Discussion "Web and Databases"		 Session 5A
Data Integration & Filtering		 Session 5B
Workflow & Adaptive Systems
Evening Reception Banquet

* Note. Each regular research paper is allocated with 30 minutes presentation time, while each short research and experience paper is allocated with 15 minutes presentation time.

July 9

9:00am - 10:30am (Tutorial 1A)

 Invited Tutorial 1: "Technologies for E-Business Solutions", Instructor: Dr. Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett Packard Laboratories.

10:30am - 11:00am (Coffee Break)

11:00am - 12:30pm (Tutorial 1B)

Invited Tutorial 1 continues.

12:30pm - 2:00pm (Lunch)

2:00pm - 3:30pm (Tutorial 2A)

Invited Tutorial 2: "Content-based Retrieval from Multimedia Databases", Dr. John R. Smith, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

3:30pm - 5:00pm (Tutorial 2B)

Invited Tutorial 2 continues.

Evening (Conference Reception)

July 10

9:00am - 10:30am (Joint Session 1)

Keynote speech, TBA.

10:30am - 11:00am (Coffee Break)

11:00am - 12:30pm (Session 1A)

Multimedia Databases & High Dimensional Indexing
  1. "Spatial-match Iconic Image Retrieval with Ranking in Multimedia Databases," regular research paper, by Jae-Woo Chang (Department of Computer Engineering, Chonbuk National University), and Yeon-Jung Kim (Department of Computer Engineering, Chonbuk National University).
  2. "Similarity-Based Operators in Image Database Systems," regular research paper, by Solomon Atnafu (LISI, INSA de Lyon, France),  Lionel Brunie (LISI, INSA de Lyon, France), and Harald Kosch (Institute of Information Technology, University Knagenfurt, Austria).
  3. "An Efficient High-Dimensional Index Structure using Cell Signatures for Similarity Search", short research paper, by Kwang-Taek Song (Department of Computer Engineering, Chonbuk National University), and Jae-Woo Chang (Department of Computer Engineering, Chonbuk National University).
  4. "Using Object-relational Database Systems and XML in the Context of an wireless-oriented Multimedia Information System," research experience paper, by Thomas Courvoisier (Computer Graphics Center Rostock), Christoph Dittberner (Computer Graphics Center Rostock), and Guntram Flach (Computer Graphics Center Rostock).

11:00am - 12:30pm (Session 1B)

Information Retrieval & Text Indexing
  1. "Utilizing the Correlation between Query Keywords for Information Retrieval," regular research paper, by Tetsuya Yoshida (Gradudate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University), Daiki Shinkai (Gradudate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University), and Shogo Nishida (Gradudate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University).
  2. "Adjacency matrix based full-text indexing models," regular research papers, by Shuigeng Zhou (National Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University), Jihong Guan (College of Computer Science, Wuhan University), Jiangtao Hu (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University), and Aoying Zhou (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Fudan University).
  3. "Goal-Oriented Information Retrieval Using Feedback from Users," short research paper, by Hiroyuki Toda (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories), Toshifumi Enomoto (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories), and Tetsuji Satoh (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories).
  4. "Classify Web Document By Key Phrase Understanding," short research paper, by Changjie Tang (Computer Department, Sichuan University China), Tong Li (Computer Department, Sichuan University China), Changyu Liu (Computer Department, Sichuan University China), and Yin Ge (Computer Department, Sichuan University China).

12:30pm - 2:00pm (Lunch)

2:00pm - 3:30pm (Session 2A)

Data Mining
  1. "Derive High Confidence Rules for Spatial Data using Tuple Count Cube," regular research paper, by William Perrizo (North Dakota State University), Qin Ding (North Dakota State University), Qiang Ding (North Dakota State University), and Amalendu Roy (North Dakota State University).
  2. "A Distributed Hierarchical Clustering System for Web Mining," regular research paper, by Catherine Wen (Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University), Huan Liu (Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University), Wilson Wen (GoConnect Australia), and Jeffrey Zheng (CMST CSIRO, Australia).
  3. "ARMiner: A Data Mining Tool based on Association Rules," research experience paper, by Haofeng Zhou (Dept. of Computer Science, Fudan University), Beijun Ruan (Dept. of Computer Science, Fudan University), Jianqiu Zhu (Dept. of Computer Science, Fudan University), Yangyong Zhu (Dept. of Computer Science, Fudan University), and Baile Shi (Dept. of Computer Science, Fudan University).
  4. "An Integrated Classification Rule Management System for Data Mining," short research paper, by Daling Wang (School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China), Yubin Bao (School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University), Guoren Wang (School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University), and Baoyan Song (School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University).

2:00pm - 3:30pm (Session 2B)

Semistructured Data Management
  1. "Characterizing Web Document Changes," regular research paper, by Lipyeow Lim (Duke University), Min Wang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Sriram Padmanabhan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Jeffrey S. Vitter (Duke University), and Ramesh Agarwal (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center).
  2. "Identification of Syntactically Similar DTD Elements in Schema Matching across DTDs," regular research paper, by Hong Su (CS department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Sriram Padmanabhan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), and Ming-Ling Lo (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center).
  3. "An XML Based Electronic Medical Record Integration," research experience paper, by Hongyan Li (Center for Information Science of Peking University), Shiwei Tang (Center for Information Science, Peking University), Dongqing Yang (Department of Computer Science & Technology, Peking University), and Yi Yu (PeridotHealth Systems Pte Ltd, Singapore).
  4. "Enhancing XML Data Processing in Relational System with Indices," short research paper, by Yuqi Liang (Dept. of Computer Science,Fudan Univ.), Aoying Zhou (Dept. of Computer Science,Fudan Univ.), Shihui Zheng (Dept. of Computer Science,Fudan Univ.), Long Zhang (Dept. of Computer Science,Fudan Univ.), and Wenyun Ji (Dept. of Computer Science,Fudan Univ.).

3:30pm - 4:00pm (Coffee Break)

4:00pm - 5:30pm (Joint Session 2)

Panel Discussion (topic TBA)

Evening (Banquet)

July 11

9:00am - 10:30am (Joint Session 3)

Keynote speech (TBA)

10:30am - 11:00am (Coffee Break)

11:00am - 12:30pm (Session 3A)

Data Warehousing & Federated Databases
  1. "A Multidimensional Data Model Supporting Complicated Aggregations" regular research paper, by Hongxing TAN (School of Computer Science, Henan University), Wenwen QI (Department of Mathematics, Henan University), and Longxiang ZHOU (Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences).
  2. "Comparing String Similarity Measures for Reducing Inconsistency in Integrating Data From Different Sources," regular research paper, by Sergio Luján-Mora (Universidad de Alicante), and Manuel Palomar (Universidad de Alicante).
  3. "Revisit on view maintenance in data warehouses," short research paper, by Weifa Liang (Australian National University), and Jeffrey Yu (Chinese Hong Kong University).
  4. "Experiences with a hybrid implementation of a globally-distributed federated database system," research experience paper, by Xuebiao Xu (Cardiff University), Andrew Jones (Cardiff University), Nick Pittas (Cardiff University), Alex Gray (Cardiff University), Nick Fiddian (Cardiff University), and Richard White (Cardiff University).

11:00am - 12:30pm (Session 3B)

Web Information Management and E-commerce
  1. "Link-based Clustering of Web Search Results," regular research paper, by Yitong Wang (Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo), and Masaru Kitsuregawa (Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo).
  2. "Three-tier clustering: an Online Citation Clustering System," regular research paper, by Haifeng Jiang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Wenwu Luo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), and Wei Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).
  3. "Introducing Navigation Graphs as a technique for improving WWW user browsing," short research paper, by Christos Bouras (Computer Technology Institute-CTI), Agisilaos Konidaris (Computer Technology Institute-CTI), Eleni Konidari (Child Development Centre, Department of Psychology), and Afrodite Sevasti (Computer Technology Institute-CTI).
  4. "The Evolution of the Contract Net Protocol," short research paepr, by Lai Xu (Tilburg University), and Hans Weigand (Tilburg University).

12:30pm - 2:00pm (Lunch)

2:00pm - 3:30pm (Session 4A)

Temporal, Spatial & High Dimensional Information Management
  1. "Semantic compression of temporal data," regular research paper, by Claudio Bettini (University of Milan).
  2. "Efficiently Computing Weighted Proximity Relationships in Spatial Databases," regular research paper, by Xuemin Lin (UNSW, Australua), Xiaomei Zhou (UNSW, Australia), Chengfei Liu (U. South Australia, Australia), and Xiaofang Zhou (UQ, Australia).
  3. "Compressing the Index - A Simple and yet Efficient Approximation Approach to High-Dimensional Indexing," regular research paper, by Shuguang Wang (National University of Singapore), Cui Yu (National University of Singapore), and BengChin Ooi (National University of Singapore).

2:00pm - 3:30pm (Session 4B)

Data Mining & Constraint Management
  1. "Finding Dense Clusters in Hyperspace: An Approach Based on Row Shuffling," regular research paper, by Daniel Barbara (George Mason University), and Xintao Wu (George Mason University).
  2. "Modelling Classification Performance for Large Data Sets --- An Empirical Study," regular research paper, by Baohua Gu (Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore), Feifang Hu (Department of Applied Probability & Statistics, National University of Singapore). and Huan Liu (Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Arizona State University).
  3. "Mapping Referential Integrity Constraints from Relational Databases to XML," regular research paper, by Xiaochun Yang (Northeastern University, P.R.China), and Guoren Wang (Northeastern University, P.R.China).

3:30pm - 4:00pm (Coffee Break)

4:00pm - 5:15pm (Session 5A)

Data Integration & Filtering
  1. "Attribute Value Extraction and Standardization in Data Integration," regular research paper, by Hongjun Lu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), and Zengping Tian (Fudan University).
  2. "Indexing Attribute and Reordering Profile for XML Document Filtering and Information Delivery," regular research paper, by Wang Lian (The University of Hong Kong), Cheung W. L.(The University of Hong Kong), and Yiu S. M.(The University of Hong Kong).
  3. "An Approach for Data Filtering Based on Rough Set Theory," short research paper, by Xuri Yin (National Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University), Zhihua Zhou (National Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University), Ning Li (National Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University), and Shifu Chen (National Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University).

4:00pm - 5:15pm (Session 5B)

Workflow & Adaptive Systems
  1. "Web-based Workflow Evolution in ADOME-WFMS" regular research paper, by Dickson K.W. Chiu (Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology), Qing Li (Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong), and Kamalakar Karlapalem (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India).
  2. "Meta-Data Objects as the Basis for System Evolution," short research paepr, by Florida Estrella (Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems, UWE), Jean-Marie Le Goff (CERN), Zsolt Kovacs (CERN), and Richard McClatchey (Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems, UWE).
  3. "Adaptive Web Meta-Search Enhanced by Constraint-based Query Constructing and Mapping," short research paper, by Lieming Huang  (GMD-IPSI), Ulrich Thiel (GMD-IPSI), Matthias Hemmje (GMD-IPSI), and Erich J. Neuhold (GMD-IPSI).
  4. "An Adaptive Data Dissemination Strategy for Mobile Environments," short research paper, by Guohong Cao (Pennsylvania State University), Yiqiong Wu (Pennsylvania State University),  and Bo Li (Xi'an Jiao Tong University).