Eleventh International Workshop On Research Issues In Data Engineering

Eleventh International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering

Contains the 13 papers presented at an April 2001 workshop on document management for data intensive business and scientific applications. The main areas of discussion are system issues in large- scale document management, XML documents, and XML query processing. Topics include personalized recommendation based on web user interests and behaviors, scalable distributed query and update service implementations for XML document elements, an access control mechanism for large scale data dissemination systems, web data indexing through external semantic-carrying annotations, and copy-based versus edit-based version management schemes for structured documents. No subject index. c. Book News Inc.

International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition

International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 98) at Plymouth represents an important meeting for advanced research in pattern recognition. There is considerable interest in the areas of image processing, medical imaging, speech recognition, document analysis and character recognition, fuzzy data analysis and neural networks. ICAPR 98 is aimed at providing an international platform for invited research in this multi-disciplinary area. It is expected that the conference will grow in future years to include more research contributions that detail state-of the-art research in pattern recognition. ICAPR 98 attracted contributions from different countries of the highest quality. I should like to thank the programme and organising committee for doing an excellent job in organising this conference. The peer reviewed nature of the conference ensured high quality publications in these proceedings. My personal thanks to Mrs. Barbara Davies who served as conference secretary and worked tirelessly in organising the conference. I thank the organising chair for the local arrangements and our should also key-note, plenary and tutorial speakers for their valuable contributions to the conference. I also thank Springer-Verlag for publishing these proceedings that will be a valuable source of research reference for the readers. Finally, I thank all participants who made this conference successful.

Second International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering