Database and Expert Systems Applications: 12th International Conference, DEXA 2001 Munich, Germany, September 3–5, 2001 ProceedingsAuthor: Heinrich C. Mayr, Jiri Lazansky, Gerald Quirchmayr, Pavel Vogel Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-42527-4 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44759-8Table of Contents:XML Databases: Modeling and Multidimensional Indexing Updatability in Federated Database Systems Designing Semistructured Databases: A Conceptual Approach Meaningful Change Detection on the Web⋆ Definition and Application of Metaclasses XSearch: A Neural Network Based Tool for Components Search in a Distributed Object Environment Information Retrieval by Possibilistic Reasoning Extracting Temporal References to Assign Document Event-Time Periods* Techniques and Tools for the Temporal Analysis of Retrieved Information Page Classification for Meta-data Extraction from Digital Collections A New Conceptual Graph Formalism Adapted for Multilingual Information Retrieval Purposes Flexible Comparison of Conceptual Graphs* Personalizing Digital Libraries for Learners Interface for WordNet Enrichment with Classification Systems An Architecture for Database Marketing Systems NChiql: The Chinese Natural Language Interface to Databases Pattern-Based Guidelines for Coordination Engineering Information Management for Material Science Applications in a Virtual Laboratory TREAT: A Reverse Engineering Method and Tool for Environmental Databases A Very Efficient Order Preserving Scalable Distributed Data Structure, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2001, held in Munich, Germany in September 2001. The 93 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 175 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on advanced databases, information retrieval, digital libraries, user interfaces, multimedia databases, workflow aspects, active databases, spatial databases, distributed databases, web aspects, knowledge management aspects, datawarehouses, hypermedia, indexing, object-oriented databases, database queries, and transaction processing, Mode of access: World Wide Web