Datamanagementsystemsforlargeapplicationsseekinfrastructuralsupport
fromdatabasesystemsanddistributedcomputingsystems. Thesesystems-
provewiththechangingrequirementsofapplications. Newresearche?ortsare
beingmadetosupportelectroniccommerce(EC)applications andvoluminous datahandlingapplications.
Atthesametime supporttechniquesarebeingst- iedindataminingandknowledgediscovery
object-relationaldatabasemana- mentsystems andmobilecomputingsystems.
Theinternationalworkshopon DatabasesinNetworkedInformationSystems(DNIS)2000hasbeenorganized
toemphasizetheresearchactivityonsupportsystems. DNIS2000isbeingheldon4
6December2000attheUniversityofAizuin Japan.
Theworkshopprogramincludesresearchcontributionsandinvitedc- tributions.
Aviewofresearchactivityinevolvingdatamanagementsystemsand
relatedresearchissueshasbeenprovidedbythesessiononthistopic. Theinvited
contributionshavebeencontributedbyDr. QimingChen Dr. UmeshwarDayal andDr. MeichunHsu
andbyMasaruKitsuregawa TakahikoShintani Takeshi Yoshizawa andIkoPramudiono.
Theworkshopsessionondatabasesystems- cludescontributedpapersbyDr. JayantR.
HaritsaandbyProfessorDivyakant AgrawalandDr. AmrElAbbadi.
Thesessiononnetworkedinformationsystems
includestheinvitedcontributionbyProfessorKrithiRamamritham Pavan- olasee AmolKatkar
AnkurPanchbudhe andPrashantShenoy. Iwouldliketothankthemembersoftheprogramcommitteefortheirs-
portandallauthorswhoconsideredDNIS2000inmakingresearchcontributions.
Thesponsoringorganizationsandtheorganizingcommitteedeservepraise forthesupporttheyprovided.
Anumberofindividualshavecontributedtothe successoftheworkshop. IthankProfessorP. C. P. Bhatt
ProfessorJ. Biskup Dr. CarlW. Vilbrand andProfessorM. Kitsuregawa forprovidingcontinuous
supportandencouragement. IhavereceivedinvaluablesupportfromtheUniversityofAizu. Professor
ShoichiNoguchi President providedencouragementandtookinterestinthe formationoftheplan.
IthankProfessorShunjiMori HeadofDepartmentof ComputerSoftware formakingthesupportavailable.
Iexpressmygratitudeto themembersandchairmanoftheInternationalA?airsCommitteeforsuppo-
ingtheworkshopproposal. Ialsothankallmycolleaguesattheuniversityfor theircooperationandsupport.
September2000 SubhashBhalla VI Organization Organization
DNIS2000internationalworkshopisorganizedbytheDatabaseSystemsLa- ratory UniversityofAizu
Aizu-WakamatsuCity Fukushima Japan. ExecutiveCommittee ProgramChair: S. Bhalla UniversityofAizu
Japan OrganizingChair: QunJin UniversityofAizu Japan ExecutiveChair: N. Bianchi-Berthouze
Universityof Aizu Japan ProgramCommittee D. Agrawal UniversityofCalifornia USA F. Andres
NationalCenterforScienceInformationSystems Japan A. Basu VanderbiltUniversity USA S. Bhalla
UniversityofAizu Japan P. C. P. Bhatt KochiTechnicalUniversity Japan J. Biskup
UniversityofDortmund Germany U. Dayal Hewlett-PackardLaboratories USA S. Grumbach INRIA France
O. Hammami UniversityofAizu Japan J. R. Haritsa IndianInstituteofScience India S. Jajodia
GeorgeMasonUniversity USA Q. Jin UniversityofAizu Japan M. Kitsuregawa UniversityofTokyo Japan
A. Kumar UniversityofColorado USA J. Li UniversityofTsukuba Japan S. K. Madria PurdueUniversity
USA G. Mans?eld TohokuUniversity Japan P. K. Reddy UniversityofTokyo Japan M. V. Sreenivas
SylantroSystems USA N. Terashima WasedaUniversity Japan AdditionalReviewers LawrenceMutenda
InstituteofIndustrialSciences UniversityofTokyo Japan TadashiOhmori
UniversityofElectro-Communications Chofu Japan SponsoringInstitution
InternationalA?airsCommittee UniversityofAizu Aizu-WakamatsuCity FukushimaP. O. 965-8580 Japan
TableofContents DataManagementSystems OLAP-BasedDataMiningforBusinessIntelligenceApplications
inTelecommunicationsandE-commerce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 1 QimingChen UmeshwarDayal MeichunHsu WebLogMiningandParallelSQLBasedExecution. . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 MasaruKitsuregawa TakahikoShintani TakeshiYoshizawa
IkoPramudiono DataProviders ALanguageExperiment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
