Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS) October 17 - 19, 2007 University of Aizu, Japan

1. Planning a trip to Univerity of Aizu" PostScript"

2. Travel by Bullet trains (Please carry this note) " PostScript"

The workshop will focus on data semantics and infrastructure for information management and interchange. The workshop will publish its proceedings in the Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (New DNIS 2007 Vol. LNCS 4777 ).

October 17, 2007 [ Wednesday ]

9:00 - Bus leaves from Washington Hotel

8:30 - 18:00 : Registration

9:45 - 10:00 : Welcome to delegates [ UBIC Lecture Hall ]

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10:00 - 11:00 Invited Talk I
[ UBIC ] ( Session Chairman - ( Prof. Divyakant Agrawal ) )

Building a Scalable Web Query Systems (Meichun Hsu, HP Laboratories)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break


11:30 - 13:00 ( Session I : Web Query and Web Mining: Systems )
Session Chair: Dr. Yasuhiko Morimoto

Understanding the Dynamics of Crop Problems by Analyzng Farm Advisory data in eSagu -
R. Uday Kiran, P. Krishna Reddy
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad)

-BUS: Need-Based Book Recommendation Using Web Reviews and Web Services -
Takanori Kuroiwa, Subhash Bhalla
University of Aizu, Japan

Search in Virtual and study in Real: A Ubiquitous Query/Anser System -
Lei Jing, Zixue Cheng, Tongjun Huang
University of Aizu, Japan

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break: University Cafeteria


14:00 - 15:00 Invited Talk II

Location Privacy in Geospatial Decision-Making -
Cyrus Shahabi
University of Southern California, USA
Session Chair: Professor Masahito Hirakawa


15:00 - 16:00 Invited Talk III

Geometrical Information Fusion from WWW and Its Related Information -
Yasuhiko Morimoto
Hiroshima University, Japan
Session Chair: Professor P. Krishna Reddy

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break


16:30 - 18:00 Session II (Geospatial Decision-Making) Session Chair: Dr. Cyrus Shahabi

A Semantic and Structural Similarity Approach to Personalize Location-Based Services -
Arianna D' Ulizia, Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni
IRPPS-CNR, Rome, Italy

Exploring structural and dimensional similarities within -- Lunar nomenclature systems using query interfaces -
Terazono, Tomoko Izumita, Noriaki Asada, Hirohide Demura, Naru Hirate
University of Aizu, Japan

Semantic Tracing in Peer-to-Peer Topic Maps Management -
Asanee Kawtrakul, Chaiyakorn Yingsaeree, Frederic Andres
NAiST Research Laboratory, Bangkok, Thailand,
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

18:00 - 19:00 Break

18:00 Bus to Washington Hotel

19:00?
Conference Banquet: Aizu-Wakamatsu Washington Hotel
Chair: Kazuaki Yamauchi

October 18, 2007 [ Thursday ]

8:30 - Bus leaves from Washington Hotel

8:30 - 13:00 : Registration

9:00-10:30 Session III: ( Web Data Management Systems)
[ UBIC, Lecture room ] ( Session Chairman - (Dr. Gao Cong) )

A Formalism for Navigating and Editing XML Document Structure -
Frithjof Dau, Mark Sifer
University of Wollongong, Australia

Readability Factors of Japanese Text Classification -
Lukas Pichl, Joe Narita
International Christian University, Tokyo

Difference and Identities in Document Retrieval in an Annotation Environment -
P. Bottoni, Michele Cuomo, Stefano Levialdi, Emanuele Panizzi, Marco Passavanti, Rossella Trinchese
University of Rome, Italy

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:50 : Invited Talk IV and V
[ LTh ] ( Session Chairman - Dr. Mark Sifer)

Going Beyond Completeness in Information Retrieval -
Masahito Hirakawa
Shimane University, Japan

Query and Update through XML Views -
Dr. Gao Cong
Microsoft Research Asia, China

12:50?18:00 Lunch and Sightseeing (Bus Tour)

October 19, 2007 [ Friday ]

8:30 Bus leaves from Washington Hotel

8:30 - 12:00 : Registration

9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk VI
( Session Chairman - Dr. Lukas Pichl )

Towards Scalable Architectures for Clickstream Data Warehousing -
Divyakant Agrawal
University of California, USA

10:00?10:25 Coffee Break


10:25 - 11:10 Invited Talk VII
( Session Chairman - Prof. A. Kara )

Sustainable Creation of Conversational Content Using Conversation Quantization -
Hidekazu Kubota
Kyoto University, Japan

11:10?11:40 Coffee Break

11:40-13:10 Session IV : Networked Information Systems
( Session Chairman - Dr. Hidekazu Kubota )

Localized Mobility-Aware Geometric Graphs for Topology Control in Heterogeneous Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -
Khoriba Ghada, Jie Li, Yusheng Ji
Tsukuba University, Japan

Using SCTP to Implement Multihomed Web Servers -
Md. Nurul Islam, A. Kara
University of Aizu, Japan

LEASE: An Economic approach to Leasing date items in Mobile-P2P networks to improve date availability -
Anirban Mondal, Sanjay Kumar Madria, Masaru Kitsuregawa
Institute of Industrial Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan

13:10?14:10 Lunch Break: University Cafeteria

14:10-15:40 Session V : Concluding Session
( Session Chairman - Dr. Anirban Mondal )

Improving the Performance of Read-only Transactions through Speculation -
T. Ragunathan, P. Krishna Reddy
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad)

Real-time Event Handling in an RFID Middleware System -
Kaushik Dutta, Krithi Ramamritham*, B.Karthik, Kamlesh Laddhad
University of Florida, USA, (*)Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Bombay

Adaptive query Interface for Mining Crime Data -
B. Chandra, Manish Gupta, M.P. Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD) India

SSRS - An XML Information Retieval System -
Zhongming Han, Wenzheng, Li, Mingyi Mao

College of Comp. Sc. and Technology, Beijing Technology and Business School, China

16:00 Bus to Washington Hotel

Registration Form " Text File "

The workshop will take place at University of Aizu. The University of Aizu is in the scenic vicinity of the Bandai-Asahi National Park, and is located in Aizu-Wakamatsu City, the historical capital of the Aizu region of Fukushima Prefecture. It is famous for Tsurugajo Castle, museums, hot-spring and skiing resorts and sake (Japanese rice wine). It is about three hours from Tokyo by train (for travel).

The University of Aizu
Aizu-Wakamatsu City
Fukushima Prefecture, PO 965-8580, Japan

• from Tokyo or Sendai or Nigata to Aizu
• Coming from Tokyo or Sendai or Nigata to Aizu
• from City Station/Interchange to University
• City Map Station,Hotel and University
• Local Bus at Aizu-Wakamatsu City
• Campus Map

• Mount Bandai (Vesuvius-type volcano, last erupted July 15, 1888)
• Aizu-Wakamatsu City Map (with clickable highlights)
• Skiing Areas (season ends a month before the workshop)
• Aizu Walking Tours
• Sightseeing Information
• Festivals and Events
• Local Cuisine and Product
• Higashiyama Spa / Ashinomaki Spa
• Outdoor Activities Club

Western Style Hotel, which rates from about 6500JPY (single) to 13000JPY (twin) per night and Japanese Style Hotel (Ryokan) with Hot Spring, which rates from 10000JPY (two persons/one Japanese style room, with breakfast) to 17000JPY (two persons/one room, with breakfast and dinner) per night are available in the near vicinity.

Aizu-Wakamatsu Washington Hotel

201 Byakko-machi, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, PO 965-0024 (JAPAN)
phone: [+81](242)22-6111
fax: [+81](242)24-7535
Email: awh@nifty.com
URL: (with an easy map) Hotel Home Page
• Free shuttle bus to the University




Hotel Resevation Requests -


---> (Please mention DNIS 2007 Author/participant)
CIT/DNIS URL: (Through Aizu Bus Kanko) Hotel Reservation Request Page


Access

		conference site (University of Aizu)	Aizu-Wakamatsu Eki (train station)
	walking	25 min.	5 min. ( straight out from the station, across 2 streets, on the left)
	taxi or shuttle bus	10 min.	-

Direct any questions to one of the organizers, or to the workshop email address: <DNIS2007@u-aizu.ac.jp>.

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