Ebook: Advances in Databases: Concepts, Systems and Applications: 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2007, Bangkok, Thailand, April 9-12, 2007. Proceedings

The 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), organized jointly by the Asian Institute of Technology, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center and Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, sought to provide information to users and practitioners of database and database systems on advanced applications. The DASFAA conference series has already established itself and it continues to attract, each year, participants from all over the world. In this context, it may be recalled that the previous DASFAA conferences were successfully held in Seoul, Korea (1989), Tokyo, Japan (1991), Daejeon, Korea (1993), Singapore (1995), Melbourne, Australia (1997), Taiwan, ROC (1999), Hong Kong (2001), Kyoto, Japan (2003), Jeju Island, Korea (2004), Beijing, China (2005) and Singapore (2006). Thailand had the opportunity to host this prestigious and important international conference and join the league. This conference provides an international forum for academic exchanges and technical discussions among researchers, developers and users of databases from academia, business and industry. DASFAA focuses on research in database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies and their advanced applications. It also promotes research and development activities in the field of databases among participants and their institutions from Pacific Asia and the rest of the world .

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2007, held in Bangkok, Thailand in April 2007.

The 68 revised full papers and 24 revised short papers presented together with two invited talks, 13 poster papers as well as 6 industrial and demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 375 submissions.

The papers are organized in topical sections on query language and query optimization, data mining and knowledge discovery, clustering, outlier detection, privacy preserving data mining, parallel and distributed databases, data warehouse, information retrieval, indexing and caching databases, security and integrity maintenance, image and ontology-based databases, sensor and scientific database applications, mobile databases, temporal and spatial databases, data streams, P2P and grid-based data management, XML databases, XML indexing, XML query processing, data warehouse and data mining, query processing, database modeling and information retrieval, network and XML databases, Web and information retrieval, database applications and security, ontology and data str