{"title":"Self-configuring components for client/server applications","authors":"W. Pree, E. Althammer, H. Sikora","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707495","url":null,"abstract":"A mechanistic view of software component assembly implies exact matching and fitting of the particular components. We argue that components for large-scale software construction should have automatic configuration capabilities in order to significantly enhance their reusability and maintainability. The paper sketches a pragmatic approach for implementing self-configuring components, relying on framework technology, meta-information and naming conventions. A case study drawn from the client/server domain illustrates the concepts.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115119163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Baker, A. Bazan, G. Chevenier, F. Estrella, Z. Kovács, T. Flour, J. Goff, S. Lieunard, R. McClatchey, S. Murray, J. Vialle
{"title":"An object model for product and workflow data management","authors":"N. Baker, A. Bazan, G. Chevenier, F. Estrella, Z. Kovács, T. Flour, J. Goff, S. Lieunard, R. McClatchey, S. Murray, J. Vialle","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707489","url":null,"abstract":"In industry design engineers have traditionally employed Product Data Management Systems to coordinate and control access to documented versions of product designs. However, these systems provide control only at the collaborative design level and are seldom used beyond design. Workflow management systems, on the other hand, are employed in industry to coordinate and support the more complex and repeatable work processes of the production environment. The integration of Product Data Management with Workflow Management can provide support for product development from initial CAD/CAM collaborative design through to the support and optimisation of production workflow activities. This paper investigates this integration and proposes a data model for the support of product data throughout the full development and production lifecycle and demonstrates its usefulness in the construction of large scale high energy physics detectors at the European Particle Physics laboratory at CERN.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"358 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122741650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C-BIRD: content-based image retrieval from digital libraries using illumination invariance and recognition kernel","authors":"Ze-Nian Li, Osmar R Zaiane, Bing Yan","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707425","url":null,"abstract":"With huge amounts of multimedia information connected to the global information network (Internet), efficient and effective image retrieval from large image and video repositories has become an imminent research issue. This article presents our research in the C-BIRD (Content-Based Image Retrieval from Digital libraries) project. In addition to the use of common features such as keywords, color texture, shape and their conjuncts, it is shown that (a) the color-channel-normalization enables search by illumination invariance, and (b) the multi-level recognition kernel facilitates search by object model in image and video databases.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129505075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding your way through multidimensional data models","authors":"M. Blaschka, C. Sapia, G. Höfling, Barbara Dinter","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707403","url":null,"abstract":"Multidimensional database technology is becoming more and more important in conjunction with data warehouses and OLAP analysis. What is still lacking is a commonly accepted formal foundation. Such a model can serve as a basis for future research and standardization. Recently a multitude of interesting proposals on this topic have been published. OLAP applications have some special requirements that do not apply to other areas of multidimensional analysis (e.g. GIS, PACS). We list requirements that a formal model and a corresponding query language must fulfill to be suitable for OLAP. We compare four approaches that come closest to our requirements. After a brief description we discuss their suitability as a formal foundation for OLAP, thus providing a systematic overview. Finally, we propose directions for further research.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128311361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The potential of multi-agent systems in virtual manufacturing enterprises","authors":"C. Roche, S. Fitouri, R. Glardon, Michel Pouly","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707514","url":null,"abstract":"Manufacturers operate today in a constantly moving market, characterized by short product life cycles and increased demand for flexibility. In the same way, the ability to respond rapidly to changing market opportunities by quickly providing the required combination of design and manufacturing capabilities becomes a key issue to maintain competitively. In this context, the concept of virtual enterprise takes an increasing importance in supporting future business engagements and fulfilling technology requirements. As short-term consortia of companies to address fast changing opportunities, the virtual enterprise may be modeled by a multi-agent system representation. Such an approach allows modeling the heterogeneous actors of the real world in terms of agents, focusing on communication and collaboration between them. The feasibility of the multi-agent approach has already been demonstrated in the manufacturing and financial fields. This paper shows how a multi agent approach may be used in the modeling of virtual enterprises. An example of an agent, the \"controller agent\", will be described in details. The multi-agent system used, called PVS98, has been developed in the framework of an Eureka project. It relies on a KQML-like architecture and on an enterprise ontology.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128699397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using complex lexical types to model the polysemy of collective nouns within the Generative Lexicon","authors":"Patrick Caudal","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707396","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a formal treatment of collective nouns (e.g. police, orchestra, and forest) drawing on the rich lexical typing of the Generative Lexicon. Collectives can be alternatively interpreted as collections in the sense of Link (1983), or as individuals, depending on contextual factors. They are therefore polysemous. Their semantics includes a meronymic (part/whole) relation which may or may not be accessible, depending on which interpretation they receive. The polysemy of collectives will be modelled using dot objects nominal types (dot objects being the Cartesian product of simple lexical types within a hierarchical lexicon) and qualia roles, capturing the constraints observed on their meronymic structure and complex lexical typing.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129897092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fault-tolerant cooperative distributed system","authors":"S. Deen","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707448","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes a highly distributed environment for Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems (CKBSs), in which autonomous knowledge based systems, called agents, cooperate/compete together to solve problems of real-world distributed applications. The paper then goes on to explore how such an environment can be exploited to provide fault tolerance, particularly fault localisation, and the replacement of faulty components followed by rescheduling, providing a resilient and stable operational environment.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123636639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A framework for generic patterns dedicated to the management of change in the electricity supply industry","authors":"C. Rolland, P. Loucopoulos, G. Grosz, S. Nurcan","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707513","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a framework that is being used to fulfil one of the main objectives of the ESPRIT project ELEKTRA: the discovery of the generalised patterns of change management for re-using them in similar settings in other electric supply companies. The term 'pattern' refers to such knowledge that may be repeatable from one situation to another, and shareable by many different users. This paper defines a framework for representing and using knowledge about the Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) sector. In the context of the ELEKTRA project, the patterns will be specific to the ESI sector and will not be applicable to any other sector. However, the framework proposed in this paper, for organising these patterns, is independent of any application and could potentially be used in many other domains.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114317791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An adaptive load balancing algorithm using simple prediction mechanism","authors":"Gil-Haeng Lee, W. Woo, B. Yoon","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707446","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present an adaptive location policy based on state polling using system state information according to a prediction mechanism. In each node, the system state information is efficiently collected and changed with low overheads at run time. Also, it is systematically maintained by using good data structures in each node. The prediction mechanism is employed to accurately decide the better destination node. We perform event-driven simulations and compare our algorithm with some of the well-known ones. We show that the results exhibit the relative performance improvement over other algorithms.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124387927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kazutomo Ushijima, S. Fujiwara, I. Nishizawa, Nobutoshi Sagawa
{"title":"SUPRA: a sampling-query optimization method for large-scale OLAP","authors":"Kazutomo Ushijima, S. Fujiwara, I. Nishizawa, Nobutoshi Sagawa","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707408","url":null,"abstract":"Relational online analytical processing (ROLAP) reduces the amount of storage required for maintaining various sizes of data cubes by materializing only parts of them in a lazy evaluation manner. In ROLAP however, cube creation queries need to be issued repeatedly in order to search for useful features (i.e. rules or patterns) within large scale databases. The cube creation cost can be a bottleneck in the whole ROLAP processing. The cost of the queries can be effectively reduced by estimating the query results using samples. To maintain the accuracy of ROLAP even when using samples, the samples need to be extracted in an appropriate unit. However, conventional query optimization methods only support record based sampling and cannot be applied for complex queries that have other sampling units, such as the ones that include grouping aggregate operations. We develop a query optimization method named SUPRA that preserves the sampling unit used in random data extraction. The method is designed to preserve both the sampling unit and the randomness of the sampling operation. Using this method, typical ROLAP queries can be transformed into more efficient ones than those obtained through conventional methods.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"483 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125456864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}