New Horizons in Information Management 20th British National Confere
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 20, held in Coventry, UK, in July 2003. The 20 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully review
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New Horizons in Information Management 20th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 20 Coventry, UK, July 15-17, 2003 Proceedings
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Series Editors Gerhard Goos, Karlsruhe University, Germany Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, NY, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Volume Editors Anne James Muhammad Younas Coventry University, School of Mathematical and Information Sciences Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK E-mail: {A.James,M.Younas}@coventry.ac.uk Brian Lings University of Exeter, Department of Computer Science Prince of Wales Road, Exeter EX4 4PT, UK E-mail: [email protected]
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CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2-4 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-40536-4 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 for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by PTP-Berlin GmbH Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 10928776 06/3142 543210
Preface The British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) was established in 1980 as a forum for research into the theory and practice of databases. The 20th in the series (BNCOD 20) was held at Coventry University in July 2003. This volume contains the BNCOD 20 proceedings. It was a delight to welcome researchers from all over the world to BNCOD 20. A strong response to our call for research papers together with the thoughtful work of the programme committee led to an excellent technical programme covering many fascinating challenges facing the database world today. The theme of BNCOD 20 was “New Horizons in Information Management”. Over the last decades database technology has become embedded in most of the information systems we use in commerce and industry and has been proven to be an essential tool in information management. Advances in database technology have enabled new methods of working with information. Similarly, new requirements of information systems have led to extensions of database technology. Novel app
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