Database and Expert Systems Applications 16th International Conferen

DEXA 2005, the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, was held at the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, from August 22 to 26, 2005. The success of the DEXA series has partly been due to the way in which i

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Kim Viborg Andersen John Debenham Roland Wagner (Eds.)

Database and Expert Systems Applications 16th International Conference, DEXA 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-26, 2005 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Kim Viborg Andersen Copenhagen Business School Njalsgade 80, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark E-mail: [email protected] John Debenham University of Technology,Sydney P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Roland Wagner University of Linz Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040 Linz, Austria E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005930886 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2, H.4, H.3, H.5, I.2, J.1 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-28566-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-28566-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

DEXA 2005, the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, was held at the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, from August 22 to 26, 2005. The success of the DEXA series has partly been due to the way in which it has kept abreast of recent developments by spawning specialized workshops and conferences each with its own proceedings. In 2005 the DEXA programme was co-located with the 7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery [DaWaK 2005], the 6th International Conference on Electr