Key Technologies for Data Management 21st British National Conferenc
This year marked the coming of age of the British National Conference on Databases with its 21st conference held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, in July 2004. To mark the occasion the general theme of the conference was “When Data Is Key”, reflectin
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Key Technologies for Data Management 21st British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 21 Edinburgh, UK, July 7-9, 2004 Proceedings
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Volume Editors Howard Williams Lachlan MacKinnon Heriot-Watt University School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK E-mail: {mhw, lachlan}@macs.hw.ac.uk
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004108031 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2, H.3, H.4 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-22382-7 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by PTP-Berlin, Protago-TeX-Production GmbH Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11017479 06/3142 543210
Preface This year marked the coming of age of the British National Conference on Databases with its 21st conference held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, in July 2004. To mark the occasion the general theme of the conference was “When Data Is Key”, reflecting not only the traditional key awarded on a 21st birthday, but also the evergrowing importance of electronic data management in every aspect of our modern lives. The conference was run as part of DAMMS (Data Analysis, Manipulation, Management and Storage) Week, which included a number of co-located and complementary conferences and workshops, including the 2nd Workshop on Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Databases (TLAD2), the BNCOD BioInformatics Workshop, and the 1st International Conference on the Future of Consumer Insight Developments in Retail Banking. The aim of this co-location was to develop synergies between the teaching, research and commercial communities involved in all aspects of database activities, and to use BNCOD as a focus for future synergies and developments within these communities. Although this is entitled the British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD has always had an international focus, and this year more than most, with the majority of the papers submitted and accepted coming from outwith the UK. We were fortunate in attracting over 70 paper submissions for the conference, of which 18 were accepted, reflecting a stringent and quality-driven peer-review process and maintaining the reputation of BNCOD as a conference reporting high-quality research to the
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