3. NGITS 1997: Neve Ilan (near Jerusalem), Israel

Keynote Session

• David Harel: On the Aesthetics of Diagrams. 0-

The WWW

• Yakov A. Kogan, David Michaeli, Yehoshua Sagiv, Oded Shmueli: Utilizing the Multiple Facets of WWW Contents. 0-
• Carrie Beam, Arie Segev: Automated Negotiation in Electronic Commerce. 0-
• Sofus A. Macskassy, Leon A. Shklar: Maintaining Information Resources. 0-

Knowledge Discovery and Acquisition

• Alex Alves Freitas: Towards Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) by Exploiting Parallelism in Generic KDD Primitives. 0-
• Helen Kaikova, Vagan Y. Terziyan: Temporal Knowledge Acquisition from Multiple Experters. 0-

Software Engineering

• Jaydeep Balakrishnan, Chun Hung Cheng, Anita Lee: A Neural Network Approach for Software Development Cost Estimation. 0-
• S. Karsenty: ParDes: A Parallel Computing Graphical Desktop. 0-
• Tal Anker, Gregory Chockler, Danny Dolev, Idit Keidar: The Caelum Toolkit for CSCW: The Sky is the Limit. 0-

Keynote Session

• Arne Sølvberg: Teaching Information Systems Engineering. 0-

Relational Databases and Queries

• Wilfred Ng, Mark Levene: OSQL: An Extension to SQL to Manipulate Ordered Relational Databases. 0-
• Hui Lei, Kenneth A. Ross: Faster Joins, Self Joins and Multi-Way Joins Using Join Indices. 89-101
• Ashish Gupta, H. V. Jagadish, Inderpal Singh Mumick: Maintenance and Self Maintenance of Outer-Join Views. 0-

Keynote Session

• J. D. Tygar: Limits of Microtransaction Systems. 0-

Heterogeneous and Distributed DBMS

• Roger King, Michael Novak, Christian Och, Fernando Vélez: Sybil: Supporting Heterogeneous Database Interoperability with Lightweight Alliance. 0-
• Avigdor Gal: Modeling Cooperation Among Information Systems Using Control Elements. 0-
• Boris Lavva, Ophir Holder, Israel Ben-Shaul: Persistence and Security Support for Distributed System with Mobile Software Objects. 0-

Query Evaluation and Information Retrieval

• Jihad Boulos: Analytical Models and Neural Networks for Query Cost Evaluation. 0-
• Joseph M. Hellerstein: Towards a Crystal Ball for Data Retrieval. 0-
• Andreas Henrich: A Common Access Structure for Standard Attributes and Document Representations in Vector Space. 154-161

Access Methods and Data Searching

• Shudong Jin, Yucai Feng, Xiaowei Sun: Improved hB-Tree with High Space Utilization and Eliminating DAG. 0-
• Sze Kin Lam, Man Hon Wong: A Fast Signature Algorithm for Sequence Data Searching. 0-

Poster Presentations

• Waldemar Wieczerzycki: Modeling and Execution of Editing Processes in Collaborative Writing Applications Supported by Database Systems. 0-
• Peter Loos: Capture More Data Semantics Through the Expanded Entity-Relationship Model. 0-
• A. Pollatschek: Software Aid for Formulation of Models. 0-

Workflow Systems

• Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Sena Nural Arpinar, Ugur Halici, Asuman Dogac: Correctness of Workflow in the Presence of Concurrency. 0-
• Euthimios Panagos, Michael Rabinovich: Predictive Workflow Management. 0-

Object-Oriented Development and DBMS

• Juhani Iivari: Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use of Three Object-Oriented Modeling Methods: An Empirical Test. 0-
• Liu Wenyin, Dov Dori: Extending Object-Process Diagrams for the Implementation Phase. 0-
• Nan Zhang, Theo Härder, Joachim Thomas: Enriching Object-Relational Databases with Relationship Semantics. 0-

Active and Temporal Databases

• Opher Etzion, Boris Dahav: Self-Stabilization in Database Consistency Maintenance. 0-
• Jongho Won, Ramez Elmasri, Jason Dongwon Kwak: Comparing the Expressiveness of Temporal Data Models Based on Time Dimension Representation. 0-
• Mira Balaban, Adi Eyal: DFL - A Hybrid Integration of Descriptions and Rules, Using F-Logic as an Underlying Semantics. 0-