Advances in Database Technology — EDBT 2000: 7th International Conference on Extending Database Technology Konstanz, Germany, March 27–31, 2000 ProceedingsAuthor: Carlo Zaniolo, Peter C. Lockemann, Marc H. Scholl, Torsten Grust Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-67227-2 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46439-5Table of Contents:XML: Current Developments and Future Challenges for the Database Community Trading Quality for Time with Nearest-Neighbor Search Dynamically Optimizing High-Dimensional Index Structures Slim-Trees: High Performance Metric Trees Minimizing Overlap between Nodes Automatic Deployment of Application-Specific Metadata and Code in MOCHA A Graph-Oriented Model for Articulation of Ontology Interdependencies An Approach to the Semi-automatic Generation of Mediator Specifications Securing XML Documents Using Checksums to Detect Data Corruption Navigation-Driven Evaluation of Virtual Mediated Views Aggregate Aware Caching for Multi-dimensional Queries Performance and Availability Assessment for the Configuration of Distributed Workflow Management Systems Evolution and Revolutions in LDAP Directory Caches Order Based Analysis Functions in NCR Teradata Parallel RDBMS Performance of DB2 Enterprise-Extended Edition on NT with Virtual Interface Architecture A Database Perspective on Building Large Applications - Experience Report - The Dynamic Data Cube OLAP Query Routing and Physical Design in a Database Cluster Materialized View Selection for Multi-cube Data Models On Bounding-Schemas for LDAP Directories, Includes bibliographical references and index