Database and Expert Systems Applications 19th International Conferen
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2008, held in Turin, Italy, in September 2008. The 74 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper we
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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 Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, 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 Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Sourav S. Bhowmick Josef Küng Roland Wagner (Eds.)
Database and Expert Systems Applications 19th International Conference, DEXA 2008 Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008 Proceedings
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Volume Editors Sourav S. Bhowmick Nanyang Technological University 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 E-mail: [email protected] Josef Küng Roland Wagner University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria E-mail: {jkueng, rrwagner}@faw.at
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008933702 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2, H.4, H.3, I.2, J.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-85653-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-85653-5 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
The annual international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) is now well established as a reference scientific event. The reader will find in this volume a collection of scientific papers that represent the state of the art of research in the domain of data, information and knowledge management, intelligent systems, and their applications. The 19th DEXA conference was held at the Politecnico di Torino, on September 1–5, 2008. Several collocated conferences and workshops covered specialized and complementary topics to the main conference to
