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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 University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 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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Mong Li Lee Kian Lee Tan Vilas Wuwongse (Eds.)

Database Systems for Advanced Applications 11th International Conference, DASFAA 2006 Singapore, April 12-15, 2006 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Mong Li Lee Kian Lee Tan National University of Singapore School of Computing 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543, Singapore E-mail: {leeml,tankl}@comp.nus.edu.sg Vilas Wuwongse Asian Institute of Technology School of Advanced Technologies Computer Science and Information Management Program P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006922864 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2, H.3, H.4, H.5, J.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-33337-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-33337-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Foreword

Welcome to the 11th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2006)! This year’s conference was held in Singapore where DASFAA was last held in 1997. DASFAA 2006 continued the tradition of providing an international forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers and users of database systems from academia, business and industry. Organizing DASFAA 2006 was a very rewarding experience—it gave me