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# VLDB 2003 PhD Workshop

### Proceedings of the VLDB 2003 PhD Workshop. Co-located with the 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2003).
Berlin, September 12-13, 2003.

Edited by

### Marc H. Scholl, University of Konstanz, Germany
Torsten Grust, University of Konstanz, Germany

## Table of Contents

1. Stefania Marrara
   Analysis and design of approximate queries over XML documents using statistical techniques
2. Philippe Michiels
   XQuery Optimization
3. Vojkan Mihajlovic
   CIRQuL - Complex Information Retrieval Query Language
4. Heiko Müller
   Semantic Data Cleansing in Genome Databases
5. Ilya Pevzner
   Extending relational database functionality with data inconsistency resolution support
6. Carsten Pohle
   Integrating and Updating Domain Knowledge with Data Mining
7. Jiri Schindler
   Matching Database Access Patterns to Storage Characteristics
8. Lutz Schlesinger
   Consistency Based Snapshot Management in Data Grids
9. Alkis Simitsis
   Modeling and managing ETL processes
10. Jens Teubner
    Pathfinder: Compiling XQuery for Execution on the Monet Database Engine
11. Caspar Treijtel
    AmbientDB: Complex Query Processing for P2P Networks
12. Krisztian Vereb
    On a Hierarchical Indexing Fuzzy Content-Based Image Retrieval Approach
13. Jiying Wang
    Information Discovery, Extraction and Integration for the Hidden Web
14. Qiang Wang
    Combined Locking Approach for Scheduling Hard Real-Time Transactions in Real-Time Databases
15. Segev Wasserkrug
    Inference and Prediction of Uncertain Events in Active Systems: A Language and Execution Model
16. Gabriele Witterstein
    A Space Efficient Persistent Implementation of an Index for DNA Sequences
17. Yongluan Zhou
    Adaptive Distributed Query Processing

submitted by Torsten Grust, August 18, 2003