Advances in Web and Network Technologies, and Information Management

This book constitutes the refereed combined proceedings of four international workshops held in conjunction with the joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2007, and the 8th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2007, held in Huang Shan, China in June 2007: DBMAN 2007, WebETrends 2007, PAIS 2007, and ASWAN 2007.

Information Access and Dissemination I.- Cost Framework for a Heterogeneous Distributed Semi-structured Environment.- Cost-Based Vertical Fragmentation for XML.- Efficiently Crawling Strategy for Focused Searching Engine.- QoS-Guaranteed Ring Replication Management with Strong Consistency.- A Mobile Database Sharing Protocol to Increase Data Availability in Mobile Environments.- Data Mining.- Mining Recent Frequent Itemsets over Data Streams with a Time-Sensitive Sliding Window.- Mining Web Transaction Patterns in an Electronic Commerce Environment.- Mining Purpose-Based Authorization Strategies in Database System.- RSP-DS: Real Time Sequential Pattern Analysis over Data Streams.- Sensor, P2P, and Grid Networks I.- Investigative Queries in Sensor Networks.- A Taxonomy-Based Approach for Constructing Semantics-Based Super-Peer Networks.- A Comparative Study of Replica Placement Strategies in Data Grids.- A Workload Balancing Based Approach to Discourage Free Riding in Peer-to-Peer Network.- QoS-Based Services Selecting and Optimizing Algorithms on Grid.- Information access and Dissemination 2.- Bayesian Method Based Trusted Overlay for Information Retrieval over Networks.- Managing a Geographic Database from Mobile Devices Through OGC Web Services.- Real-Time Creation Method of Personalized Mobile Web Contents for Ubiquitous Contents Access.- Stream Data Management.- The Golden Mean Operator Scheduling Strategy in Data Stream Systems.- Continuous Skyline Tracking on Update Data Streams.- A Hybrid Algorithm for Web Document Clustering Based on Frequent Term Sets and k-Means.- Sensor, P2P, and Grid Networks 2.- OMSI-Tree: Power-Awareness Query Processing over Sensor Networks by Removing Overlapping Regions.- On Studying Front-Peer Attack-Resistant Trust and Reputation Mechanisms Based on Enhanced Spreading Activation Model in P2P Environments.- A Load Balancing Method Using Ring Network in the Grid Database.- Design and Implementation of a System for Environmental Monitoring Sensor Network.- Policy Based Scheduling for Resource Allocation on Grid.- Potpourri.- Characterizing DSS Workloads from the Processor Perspective.- Exploiting Connection Relation to Compress Data Graph.- Indexing the Current Positions of Moving Objects on Road Networks.- Keynote Talk.- DBMSs with Native XML Support: Towards Faster, Richer, and Smarter Data Management.- A Personalized Re-ranking Algorithm Based on Relevance Feedback.- An Investigation and Conceptual Models of Podcast Marketing.- A User Study on the Adoption of Location Based Services.- Email Community Detection Using Artificial Ant Colony Clustering.- EviRank: An Evidence Based Content Trust Model for Web Spam Detection.- A Novel Factoid Ranking Model for Information Retrieval.- Dynamic Composition of Web Service Based on Coordination Model.- An Information Retrieval Method Based on Knowledge Reasoning.- Research on Personalized Recommendation Algorithm in E-Supermarket System.- XML Normal Forms Based on Constraint-Tree-Based Functional Dependencies.- Untyped XQuery Canonization.- Web Search Tailored Ontology Evaluation Framework.- Full Paper.- An Overview of the Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM).- Process Mining: Extending ?-Algorithm to Mine Duplicate Tasks in Process Logs.- A Distributed Genetic Algorithm for Optimizing the Quality of Grid Workflow.- Safety Analysis and Performance Evaluation of Time WF-nets.- Dual Workflow Nets: Mixed Control/Data-Flow Representation for Workflow Modeling and Verification.- Bridging Organizational Structure and Information System Architecture Through Process.- Relation-Driven Business Process-Oriented Service Discovery.- Workflow Message Queue’s Performance Effect Measurements on an EJB-Based Workflow Management System.- Short Paper.- RFID Application Model and Performance for Postal Logistics.- An Organization and Task Based Access Control Model for Workflow System.- A Method of Web Services Composition Based on Service Alliance.- Toward a Lightweight Process-Aware Middleware.- Automatic Generation of Web Service Workflow Using a Probability Based Process-Semantic Repository.- A Three-Dimensional Customer Classification Model Based on Knowledge Discovery and Empirical Study.- QoS-Driven Global Optimization of Services Selection Supporting Services Flow Re-planning.- SOA-Based Collaborative Modeling Method for Cross-Organizational Business Process Integration.- Model Checking for BPEL4WS with Time.- A Version Management of Business Process Models in BPMS.- Research on Architecture and Key Technology for Service-Oriented Workflow Performance Analysis.- WPE Models and Applications.- The Study on Internet-Based Face Recognition System Using Principal Component Analysis.- Semantic Representation of RTBAC: Relationship-Based Access Control Model.- A Code-Based Multi-match Packet Classification with TCAM.- Security and Services of WPE.- Home Network Device Authentication: Device Authentication Framework and Device Certificate Profile.- P-IDC: Information Security and Consideration in Building Internet Data Centers for Pervasive Environment.- Improvement of an Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol.- A Mechanism for Securing Digital Evidences in Pervasive Environments.- A Secure Chaotic Hash-Based Biometric Remote User Authentication Scheme Using Mobile Devices.- WSN/RFID/Web Services.- Adapting Web Services Security Standards for Mobile and Wireless Environments.- Coexistence Proof Using Chain of Timestamps for Multiple RFID Tags.- A Design of Authentication Protocol for Multi-key RFID Tag.- An Efficient Fragile Watermarking for Web Pages Tamper-Proof.- Classification of Key Management Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Data Management and Access Control for WPE.- An Efficient Algorithm for Proportionally Fault-Tolerant Data Mining.- SOGA: Fine-Grained Authorization for Self-Organizing Grid.- Permission-Centric Hybrid Access Control.