This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Information Systems, ADVIS 2004, held in Izmir, Turkey in October 2004.The 61 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 203 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on databases and datawarehouses, data mining and knowledge discovery, Web information systems development, information systems development and management, information retrieval, parallel and distributed data processing, multimedia information systems, information privacy and security, evolutionary and knowledge-based systems, software engineering and business process modeling, and network management.
Invited Talks Processing Preference Queries in Standard Database Systems Turkish Information Retrieval: Past Changes Future From On-Campus Project Organised Problem Based Learning to Facilitated Work Based Learning in Industry Innovative Information and Knowledge Infrastructures How Do I Find What I Need? Information Representation and Exchange XMask: An Enabled XML Management System Validation of XML Documents: From UML Models to XML Schemas and XSLT Stylesheets A Novel Clustering-Based Approach to Schema Matching BFPkNN: An Efficient k-Nearest-Neighbor Search Algorithm for Historical Moving Object Trajectories Three-Level Object-Oriented Database Architecture Based on Virtual Updateable Views AEC Algorithm: A Heuristic Approach to Calculating Density-Based Clustering Eps Parameter Databases and Datawarehouses GeoCube, a Multidimensional Model and Navigation Operators Handling Complex Measures: Application in Spatial OLAP Hybrid Index for Spatio-temporal OLAP Operations Managing Evolution of Data Warehouses by Means of Nested Transactions Optimization of Queries Invoking Views by Query Tail Absorption Checking Violation Tolerance of Approaches to Database Integrity A Metadata Repository Model to Integrate Heterogeneous Databases of Hardware Dependent Legacy Systems Semantic Web and Ontologies Semantic Information Retrieval on the Web Contextual Ontologies: Motivations, Challenges, and Solutions Matchmaking of Semantic Web Services Using Semantic-Distance Information …… Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Information Retrieval and Knowledge Representation Architecture of Information Systems Distributed and Wireless Information Systems Author Index