Database theory --- ICDT 2003. 9th international conference, Siena, Italy, January 8--10, 2003. Proceedings (Q1812285)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The preceding conference has been reviewed (see Zbl 0953.00043). Indexed articles: \textit{Daswani, Neil; Garcia-Molina, Hector; Yang, Beverly}, Open problems in data-sharing peer-to-peer systems, 1-15 [Zbl 1022.68506] \textit{Ioannidis, Yannis}, Approximations in database systems, 16-30 [Zbl 1022.68517] \textit{Li, Jinyan; Ng, See-Kiong; Wong, Limsoon}, Bioinformatics adventures in database research, 31-46 [Zbl 1022.68519] \textit{Papakonstantinou, Yannis; Vianu, Victor}, Incremental validation of XML documents, 47-63 [Zbl 1022.68521] \textit{Martens, Wim; Neven, Frank}, Typechecking top-down uniform unranked tree transducers, 64-78 [Zbl 1022.68037] \textit{Benedikt, Michael; Fan, Wenfei; Kuper, Gabriel M.}, Structural properties of XPath fragments, 79-95 [Zbl 1022.68503] \textit{Toman, David; Weddell, Grant}, On reasoning about structural equality in XML: A description logic approach, 96-110 [Zbl 1022.68523] \textit{Cohen, Sara; Nutt, Werner; Sagiv, Yehoshua}, Containment of aggregate queries, 111-125 [Zbl 1022.68030] \textit{Malvestuto, Francesco M.; Mezzini, Mauro}, Auditing sum queries, 126-142 [Zbl 1022.68036] \textit{Govindarajan, Sathish; Agarwal, Pankaj K.; Arge, Lars}, CRB-tree: An efficient indexing scheme for range-aggregate queries, 143-157 [Zbl 1022.68511] \textit{Poon, Chung Keung}, Optimal range max datacube for fixed dimensions, 158-172 [Zbl 1022.68522] \textit{Green, Todd J.; Miklau, Gerome; Onizuka, Makoto; Suciu, Dan}, Processing XML streams with deterministic automata, 173-189 [Zbl 1022.68512] \textit{Geerts, Floris; Kuijpers, Bart}, Deciding termination of query evaluation in transitive-closure logics for constraint databases, 190-206 [Zbl 1022.68032] \textit{Fagin, Ronald; Kolaitis, Phokion G.; Miller, Renée J.; Popa, Lucian}, Data exchange: Semantics and query answering, 207-224 [Zbl 1022.68510] \textit{Deutsch, Alin; Tannen, Val}, Reformulation of XML queries and constraints, 225-241 [Zbl 1022.68507] \textit{Grahne, Gösta; Thomo, Alex}, New rewritings and optimizations for regular path queries, 242-258 [Zbl 1022.68033] \textit{Bielecki, Michał; Van den Bussche, Jan}, Database interrogation using conjunctive queries, 259-269 [Zbl 1022.68504] \textit{Krishnamurthy, Rajasekar; Chakaravarthy, Venkatesan T.; Naughton, Jeffrey F.}, On the difficulty of finding optimal relational decompositions for XML workloads: A complexity theoretic perspective, 270-284 [Zbl 1022.68518] \textit{Cohen, Sara; Kanza, Yaron; Sagiv, Yehoshua}, Generating relations from XML documents, 285-299 [Zbl 1022.68505] \textit{Wood, Peter T.}, Containment for XPath fragments under DTD constraints, 300-314 [Zbl 1022.68524] \textit{Neven, Frank; Schwentick, Thomas}, XPath containment in the presence of disjunction, DTDs, and variables, 315-329 [Zbl 1022.68520] \textit{Calvanese, Diego; De Giacomo, Giuseppe; Vardi, Moshe Y.}, Decidable containment of recursive queries, 330-345 [Zbl 1022.68028] \textit{Wei, Fang; Lausen, Georg}, Containment of conjunctive queries with safe negation, 346-360 [Zbl 1022.68040] \textit{Hung, Edward; Getoor, Lise; Subrahmanian, V. S.}, Probabilistic interval XML, 361-377 [Zbl 1022.68516] \textit{Wijsen, Jef}, Condensed representation of database repairs for consistent query answering, 378-393 [Zbl 1022.68041] \textit{Hidders, Jan}, Typing graph-manipulation operations, 394-409 [Zbl 1022.68515] \textit{Pitoura, Evaggelia; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Ramamritham, Krithi}, Characterizing the temporal and semantic coherency of broadcast-based data dissemination, 410-424 [Zbl 1022.68039] \textit{Elbassioni, Khaled; Elmasry, Amr; Kamel, Ibrahim}, An efficient indexing scheme for multi-dimensional moving objects, 425-439 [Zbl 1022.68509] \textit{Hagedoorn, Michiel}, Nearest neighbors can be found efficiently if the dimension is small relative to the input size, 440-454 [Zbl 1022.68514]