{"title":"Security moving from database systems to ERP systems","authors":"R. V. D. Riet, Wouter Janssen, Peter de Gruijter","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707413","url":null,"abstract":"Usage of Information Systems moves from a central database system with many application programs to fully integrated systems with which an enterprise is handling many of its information and communication problems (ERP). In this paper we study how these systems deal with the security issue; we see that on the one hand by moving the security from the database level to the ERP level, advantages by having centrally defined and maintained security rules get lost, on the other hand it is possible to exploit WorkFlow Management (WFM) techniques to define security procedures more properly, such that the \"separation of duty\" principle can be applied. We demonstrate this on the tricky security rules for the security employees themselves.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"51 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":"123118306","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":"Management of work sessions in dynamic open environments","authors":"M. Marazakis, D. Papadakis, C. Nikolaou","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707488","url":null,"abstract":"Workflow management systems are developed to support and automate the execution of business processes, by assigning tasks to agents according to the workflow specification. Current state-of-the-art workflow systems are mainly concerned with the routing and assignment of tasks, providing little support for tasks related to administration and management. This deficiency is exacerbated in dynamic open environments, where services provided and managed by multiple autonomous authorities need to be integrated. Such environments significantly stretch the assumptions underlying current state-of-the-art workflow system designs, especially as network-centric applications become widespread. We propose a framework, service level management, for addressing all system administration in an integrated manner in the context of a workflow execution model that allows for dynamic adaptation (reconfiguration) of work sessions in a dynamic and heterogeneous run-time environment. Service level management requires a comprehensive monitoring infrastructure. We present our design for such an infrastructure, which is part of our current work towards developing the Aurora architecture for supporting work sessions.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"18 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":"114954559","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":"Visual support for combining algorithms via the Internet","authors":"Peter Becker, Stefan Müller","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707441","url":null,"abstract":"The system Progress facilitates the easy provision and usage of computational services via the Internet. Moreover it offers powerful value added services in this area. The concept of plans can be used to combine computational services located at different hosts to more powerful services. In this article, we demonstrate how this concept can be coupled with other Internet technologies like Java to achieve a visual programming environment for large-scale Internet programming.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"25 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":"124558732","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":"Managing evolution of coordination aspects in Open systems","authors":"J. Cruz, S. Tichelaar","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707460","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the work on coordination technology so far has focused on the development of special coordination languages and environments that provide the basic mechanisms for realizing the coordination layer of an open system. It is clear that the idea of managing separately the coordination aspect from the computation in a language has a lot of advantages in the development of those systems. Nevertheless, most of the coordination languages do not take care that additionally to managing coordination requirements, they must manage other kinds of \"openness\" related requirements in Open Systems. The most important requirement being to support the evolution of the coordination requirements themselves. This problem manifests during the software development process by the development over and over again of solutions to similar coordination problems. To tackle this problem, and instead of proposing a new language, we are attempting to develop an open set of adaptable and reusable software components that realize various useful coordination abstractions. With these components we provide explicit separation of coordination from computation, and facilitate reuse and evolution of coordination aspects in Open Systems.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"6 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":"121989619","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":"BPR in support of electronic commerce: a case study","authors":"G. Giaglis, G. Doukidis","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707473","url":null,"abstract":"Inter-organisational Electronic Commerce (E-Comm) applications have become an increasingly common vehicle for facilitating communication and information exchange between firms. However, the decision for business process change to support a shared process infrastructure between partners may have unforeseen consequences. It should therefore be taken only after careful consideration of possible implications and pitfalls. In this paper we present a real-life case study of E-Comm investment evaluation, where computer-based models of the business processes to be supported by E-Comm applications were developed. The models were then dynamically simulated to assist the companies involved in gaining insight on the real benefits and dangers associated with the planned business change. Drawing on the results of the case study, we discuss the potential of Business Process Modelling and Simulation to support assessment of E-Comm business value.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"66 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":"116303142","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 containment information for view evolution in dynamic distributed environments","authors":"A. Nica, Elke A. Rundensteiner","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707405","url":null,"abstract":"The maintenance of materialized views in large scale environments composed of numerous information sources (ISs), such as in the WWW, is complicated by ISs not only continuously modifying their contents bur also their capabilities (schemas and query interfaces). With current view technology, views become undefined when ISs change their capabilities. Our Evolvable View Environment (EVE) project addresses this new problem of evolving views under IS capabilities changes, which we call the view synchronization problem. Key principles of EVE include a user specified preference model for view evolution (Evolvable-SQL (E-SQL)) and a Model for Information Source Descriptions (MISD). We present a formal characterization of correctness of view synchronization using containment constraints defined in MISD. Then, we give a novel view synchronization algorithm for view rewriting, exploiting general containment constraints between the to-be-replaced relation and its replacement.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"39 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":"132683232","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":"Avoiding inference problem using page level security classification","authors":"Yong-Chul Oh, S. Navathe","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707416","url":null,"abstract":"It is important to avoid the inference problem for the directories and catalogs in secure database management systems without having to incur heavy expenses. The proposed security scheme uses an index in addition to a hashing technique and classified data pages. Unlike previously proposed directory schemes in secure database management systems, the proposed system does not incur additional overhead costs for avoiding security inference problems in the database directory. The architecture and algorithm of query processing of the proposed secure directory system are described.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"36 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":"116901638","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":"Write notification for certification protocol based on time-stamp history","authors":"SungHo Cho, K. Y. Bae, C. Hwang","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707515","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of optimistic concurrency control schemes is sensitive to the transaction abort rate. The abort probability can be reduced by back-shifting the time-stamp for certification from the time of requesting a commit in order to reduce read-write conflicts. However even if this approach can reduce the abort probability, some transactions continuously perform unnecessary operations even after the transactions accessed write-write conflicting data items. The reason is that the abort only happens in the validation phase. In addition, the validation time in the time-stamp history based certification scheme is too long. Our primary goal is to enhance the performance of the certification protocol by reducing the unnecessary operations and validation overhead. In this paper we propose a protocol that can abort the transaction during the execution phase when it accesses write-write conflicting data items by using the write notification approach. Additionally, we also propose an extended protocol that can reduce the validation overhead.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"78 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":"131178778","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":"Optimizing fragment constraints","authors":"H. Ibrahim, W. A. Gray, N. Fiddian","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707379","url":null,"abstract":"H. Ibrahim et al. (1997) introduced an integrity constraint subsystem for a relational distributed database (SICSDD) that they developed. The subsystem consists of several techniques which are necessary for efficient constraint checking, particularly for a distributed environment where data distribution is transparent to the application domain. We show how these techniques have effectively reduced the cost of constraint checking in such a distributed environment. This is performed by analysing and comparing the generated simplified forms to their respective initial constraints with respect to the amount of data that has to be accessed, the amount of data transferred across the network and the number of sites that may be involved during the evaluation of these constraints/simplified forms.","PeriodicalId":194923,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings Ninth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (Cat. No.98EX130)","volume":"40 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":"131185795","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":"Integrating visual ontologies and wavelets for image content retrieval","authors":"W. Mao, D. Bell","doi":"10.1109/DEXA.1998.707428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEXA.1998.707428","url":null,"abstract":"One of the challenging problems for image content retrieval is how to represent semantics of images. We have proposed a new representation for image contents using visual ontologies and wavelets. We will discuss how to represent the shape of objects/regions of interest, colour distribution and texture of the images integrating visual ontologies with wavelets. Our ideas are: (1) propose a set of meta ontologies and semantic descriptors (graphic and symbolic) for visual ontologies; (2) using visual ontologies and most significant coefficients of a 2D multiresolution wavelet transform to represent image contents. The visual ontologies are represented by a set of descriptors, relations, logic operators, and functions; (3) using a multiresolution wavelet transform to extract the colour and texture features of target images and map it into relevant visual ontologies. The query images can also be represented as visual ontologies or most significant coefficients of a 2-D multiresolution wavelet; (4) a spatial query can be integrated with other visual ontologies. The initial experiments have shown encouraging results.","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":"134435195","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}