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Enterprise Information Systems 8th International Conference, ICEIS 2006, Paphos, Cyprus, May 23-27, 2006, Revised Selected Papers

:	Yannis Manolopoulos, Joaquim Filipe, Panos Constantopoulos, José Cordeiro
:	Enterprise Information Systems 8th International Conference, ICEIS 2006, Paphos, Cyprus, May 23-27, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9783540775812
:	1
:	CHF 59.80
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:	Sonstiges
:	English

:	469
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This book contains the carefully selected best papers of the 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Sysetms, ICEIS 2006, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in May 2006. The 4 invited papers and 27 revised and selected papers presented in this volume cover different aspects related to enterprise computing. They were selected from 63 accepted papers (out of more than 400 submissions). The contributions are grouped in sections on databases and information systems integration, artificial intelligence and decision support systems, information systems analysis and specification, software agents and internet computing, and human-computer interaction.

	Preface	5
	Organization	7
	Table of Contents	13
	Invited Papers	17
	P2P Semantic Mediation of Web Sources	18
	Introduction	18
	XML Data Mediation	19
	Basics and Backgrounds	19
	Overview of the XLive Mediator	20
	P2P Data Systems	21
	Basic P2P Architectures	22
	Structural Routing	23
	Semantic Routing	23
	Pathfinder P2P Mediator	24
	Objectives and Architecture	24
	P2P Source Discovery	26
	Query Execution	27
	XML TE	27
	The Semantic Layer	29
	Conclusion	30
	References	30
	Reflective Community Information Systems	32
	Internet Communities and Social Software	32
	ATLAS: Metadata and Reflective Information Systems	34
	Tools for Modeling and Analysis	37
	Application Experiences	39
	Summary and Outlook	41
	References	42
	Data Exchange Issues in Peer-to-Peer Database Systems	44
	Introduction	44
	Related Work	47
	Main Issues	48
	Evading Successive Query Rewriting	49
	Conclusions and Future Work	51
	References	52
	On Enhancing Query Optimization in the Oracle Database System by Utilizing Attribute Cardinality Maps	53
	Introduction	53
	Contributions of This Paper	55
	Basic Structure of a Script	55
	Histogram Methods	55
	QEP Determinations in ORACLE	67
	Integration of the Methods into Oracle	68
	The Core Architecture of Our Implementation	68
	Selectivity Computation for Queries	70
	Experimental Results	70
	Test Data Sets	70
	Sample Queries	71
	Accuracy of the Error Estimates	72
	Comparing the BT-ACM and Equi-depth for Uniform Distributions	74
	QEP Selection Comparison	74
	Example 1	75
	Example 2	76
	Conclusions	78
	Part I Databases and Information Systems Integration	88
	Improvement of Software Development Processes, Balancing Internal and External Organizational Aspects	90
	Introduction	90
	Spi and the Necessity of Taking Both Internal and External Organisational Factors as Starting Point	91
	Measuring Entropy	93
	Entropy and Its Relations to Complexity and Dynamics	93
	Entropy and Its Relations with Business System Aspects	94
	Results of the Research: Space for Improvement for Software Development Organisations	96
	Experience with Process Improvement	96
	Positioning Organisations on the Basis of Their Entropy Scores	97
	Conclusions	99
	Measuring Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems Success: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach	101
	Introduction	101
	Background Information	103
	Methodology	105
	Result	105
	Instrument Development and Validity	106
	Data Analysis	106
	Additivity of the ERP Systems Success Dimensions	106
	Alternative Models	108
	Discussions and Conclusion	109
	References	110
	Toward Data Compliance in Vaccine Industry: Interoperability to Align Business and Information Systems	113
	Introduction	113
	The Vaccine Industry	114
	The Vaccine Supply Chain	114
	The Vaccine Product	115
	Vaccine Data Specifications	116
	Interoperability in Vaccine Industry	118
	The Interoperability Framework	118
	General Requirement for Interoperability	119
	Interoperability for Production Data Compliance	119
	From MA to ERP	119
	Type of Data to Be Translated	120
	Rules Definition	121
	Case Study	123
	The Compliance Scenario	123
	Validate Data in Sap	124
	Conclusion	125
	References	126
	Evaluating Server Capacity for Streaming Media Services	127
	Introduction	127
	Methodology	129
	Workload Selection	129
	Server Capacity Decision	130
	Data Calibration	133
	Evaluation Results	135
	Experimental Setup	135
	Maximum Server Capacity	136
	Server-Side Observations	138
	Client-Side Observations	141
	Prediction Model	143
	Related Work	144
	Conclusions	145
	Part II Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems	148
	On Processing Temporal Observations in Monitoring of Discrete-Event Systems	150
	Introduction	150
	Application Domain	151
	Temporal Observations	152
	Indexing Observations	154
	Incremental Indexing	155
	Discussion	158
	Conclusion	159
	Towards a Fuzzy Ontology Definition and a Fuzzy Extension of an Ontology Editor	162
	Introduction	162
	Definition and Use of a Fuzzy Ontology	163
	Defining a Fuzzy Value	163
	Updating a Fuzzy Value	165
	An Example of Application: Extending Queries	167
	Adding Fuzziness in KAON	168
	Ontologies in KAON	169
	Fuzzy Ontologies in KAON	170
	Fuzzy OWL	170
	Conclusions	171
	References	171
	Retrieval of Collaborative Filtering Nearest Neighbors in a Content-Addressable Space	174
	Introduction	174
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