The British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) was established in 1980 as a forum for research into the theory and practice of databases. The original conference in the series took place at the University of Aberdeen. To be precise, this conference was in fact entitled ICOD which stood for International Conference on Databases. It was the intention, when the series began, that an ICOD would take place every two years, whilst a BNCOD would run in the years in between. As the record shows ICOD was only held in 1980 and 1983. The more junior conference has managed to acquire a lifetime much longer than that of its senior relative! If truth wereknown,however,BNCOD has,overthe years,growninto ICOD and although the conference is still titled “British National,” it is, in fact, an international conference that takes place on a yearly basis. Proof of this can be obtained simply by looking at the table of contents of these proceeding which clearlyshowthatthe majorityofpaperspresentedatthis year’sconferencecame from contributors whose a?liations are outside the UK. Despitetherangeofpapersono?er,BNCODstillretainsitsuniquelyBritish ?avor. The Programme Committee is drawn from UK academics and the c- ference is always held at a British university (or in earlier years a polytechnic!).
Author(s): Paul Watson (auth.), Mike Jackson, David Nelson, Sue Stirk (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3567
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 185
Tags: Database Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Front Matter....Pages -
Databases in Grid Applications: Locality and Distribution....Pages 1-16
Spatial Hierarchies and Topological Relationships in the Spatial MultiDimER Model....Pages 17-28
Multidimensional Structures Dedicated to Continuous Spatiotemporal Phenomena....Pages 29-40
TimeER plus : A Temporal EER Model Supporting Schema Changes....Pages 41-59
Semantically Rich Materialisation Rules for Integrating Heterogeneous Databases....Pages 60-69
Answering Queries Using Views in the Presence of Functional Dependencies....Pages 70-81
LAX : An Efficient Approximate XML Join Based on Clustered Leaf Nodes for XML Data Integration....Pages 82-97
Exploitation of Referential Integrity Constraints for Efficient Update of Data Warehouse Views....Pages 98-110
Correlation-Based Data Broadcasting in Wireless Networks....Pages 111-119
Hierarchical Group-Based Sampling....Pages 120-132
Using Schema Transformation Pathways for Data Lineage Tracing....Pages 133-144
XDGL: XPath-Based Concurrency Control Protocol for XML Data....Pages 145-154
Updating XML Using Object-Relational Database....Pages 155-160
Image Retrieval Using Weighted Color Co-occurrence Matrix....Pages 161-165
Street Address Correction Based on Spelling Techniques....Pages 166-172
Personalising Patient Information in the Real World....Pages 173-178
Republishers in a Publish/Subscribe Architecture for Data Streams....Pages 179-184
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