Advances in Database Technology
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2006, held in Munich, Germany, in March 2006. The 60 revised research papers presented together with 8 industrial application papers, 20 software demos, and 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 352 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data streams, semantic heterogeneity, distributed databases, multidimensionality and nearest-neighbor searches, privacy and security, temporal data management, text databases and information retrieval, schema management, approximation and estimation, data and query patterns, XML queries and updates, data streams and pub/sub systems, data mining and knowledge discovery, images, multimedia, and user interfaces, XML data management, query optimization, data structures and indexing, nontraditional query processing, spatial data management, and extending data base technology.