Key Technologies for Data Management 数据管理关键技术/会议录

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 2004, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK in July 2004.
The 21 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper and the abstract of an invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 70 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data streams, integration and heterogeneity, data analytics and manipulation, XML, interfaces and visualization, spatial data, and TLAD workshop papers

Invited Papers
Towards a Next Generation Grid
　The Future of the World Wide Web?
Data Streams
　Scheduling Strategies for Processing Continuous Queries over Streams
　Evaluating Complex Queries Against XML Streams　with Polynomial Combined Complexity
Integration and Heterogeneity
　The EGTV Query Language
　XML Data Integration by Graph Restructuring
　AUP: Adaptive Change Propagation Across Data Model Boundaries
Data Analytics/Manipulations
　Database Support for Path Query Functions
　Agent-Based Data Mining Approach for the Prediction of UK　and Irish Companies Performance
　Reducing Damage Assessment Latency in Survivable Databases
XML
　Efficient Processing of Multiple Structural Join Queries
　Handling Updates for Cache-Answerability of XML Queries　on the Web
　Constraining XML Transformations　for Personalised Information Presentation
　DbSurfer: A Search and Navigation Tool for Relational Databases
Interface/Visualization
　Ontology-Driven Automated Generation of Data Entry Interfaces　to Databases
　Incremental Observer Relative Data Extraction
　Performing Colour-Based Similarity Searches in Multimedia　Database Management Systems Augmented with Derived Images
Spatial Data
　Bulk Loading the M-Tree to Enhance Query Performance
　A Fast Filter for Obstructed Nearest Neighbor Queries
　Language Bindings for Spatio-Temporal Database Programming in Tripod
TLAD Workshop
　Gauging Students' Understanding Through Interactive Lectures
　Teaching SQL -- Which Pedagogical Horse for This Course?
　Computer-Based Assessment Strategies in the Teaching of Databases　at Honours Degree Level 1
Author Index