Advances in Databases.. Concepts, Systems and Applications, 12 conf., DASFAA 2007

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2007, held in Bangkok, Thailand in April 2007.

The 68 revised full papers and 24 revised short papers presented together with 2 invited talks, 13 poster papers as well as 6 industrial and demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 375 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on query language and query optimization, data mining and knowledge discovery, clustering, outlier detection, privacy preserving data mining, parallel and distributed databases, data warehouse, information retrieval, indexing and caching databases, security and integrity maintenance, image and ontology-based databases, sensor and scientific database applications, mobile databases, temporal and spatial databases, data streams, P2P and grid-based data management, XML databases, XML indexing, XML query processing, data warehouse and data mining, query processing, database modeling and information retrieval, network and XML databases, Web and information retrieval, database applications and security, ontology and data streams.