Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery: 5th International Conference, DaWaK 2003, Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-5,2003, Proceedings [Paperback]

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, DaWaK 2003, held in Prague, Czech Republic in September 2003.

The 41 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 130 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data cubes and queries, multidimensional data models, Web warehousing, change detection, Web mining and association rules, association rules and decision trees, clustering, association rule mining, data analysis and discovery, ontologies and improving data quality, queries and data patterns, improving database query engines, and sampling and vector classification.

Invited Talk.- XML for Data Warehousing Chances and Challenges.- Data Cubes and Queries.- CPM: A Cube Presentation Model for OLAP.- Computation of Sparse Data Cubes with Constraints.- Answering Joint Queries from Multiple Aggregate OLAP Databases.- An Approach to Enabling Spatial OLAP by Aggregating on Spatial Hierarchy.- Multidimensional Data Model.- A Multidimensional Aggregation Object (MAO) Framework for Computing Distributive Aggregations.- The GMD Data Model for Multidimensional Information: A Brief Introduction.- An Application of Case-Based Reasoning in Multidimensional Database Architecture.- Web Warehousing.- MetaCube XTM: A Multidimensional Metadata Approach for Semantic Web Warehousing Systems.- Designing Web Warehouses from XML Schemas.- Building XML Data Warehouse Based on Frequent Patterns in User Queries.- Change Detection.- A Temporal Study of Data Sources to Load a Corporate Data Warehouse.- Automatic Detection of Structural Changes in Data Warehouses.- Performance Tests in Data Warehousing ETLM Process for Detection of Changes in Data Origin.- Web Mining and Association Rule.- Recent Developments in Web Usage Mining Research.- Parallel Vector Computing Technique for Discovering Communities on thel2