Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, NGITS 2006, held in Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel, July 2006. The book presents 28 revised full papers and four revised short papers together with three invited papers. Topical sections include information integration, next generation applications, information systems development, security and privacy, semi-structured data, frameworks, models and taxonomies, simulation and incremental computing, and more.

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Full Papers.- Efficiently Updating Cost Repository Values for Query Optimization on Web Data Sources in a Mediator/Wrapper Environment.- TupleRank: Ranking Discovered Content in Virtual Databases.- Next-Generations Applications.- Analysis of Queries Reaching SHIL on the Web - An Information System Providing Citizen Information.- On Mediated Search of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Data.- A Repository of Services for the Government to Businesses Relationship.- Information Systems Development.- Towards Automatic Integration of Persistency Requirements in Enterprise-Systems - The Persistent-to-Persistent Patterns.- Consistency of UML Class Diagrams with Hierarchy Constraints.- A Framework-Based Design for Supporting Availability of Layered Distributed Applications.- Security and Privacy.- Web Application Security Gateway with Java Non-blocking IO.- Microaggregation for Database and Location Privacy.- Efficient Caching Strategies for Gnutella-Like Systems to Achieve Anonymity in Unstructured P2P File Sharing.- Semi-structured Data.- Conjunctive Queries over DAGs.- Incrementally Computing Ordered Answers of Acyclic Conjunctive Queries.- Count-Constraints for Generating XML.- Frameworks, Models and Taxonomies.- A Data Model for Music Information Retrieval.- A Taxonomy and Representation of Sources of Uncertainty in Active Systems.- Analyzing Object-Oriented Design Patterns from an Object-Process Viewpoint.- Simulation and Incremental Computing.- Modeling and Simulation of Grid Information Service.- Simulations of Distributed Service-Based Content Adaptation for Network Optimization.- Distributed Systems.- Second Order Snapshot-Log Relations: Supporting Multi-directional Database Replication Using Asynchronous Snapshot Replication.- The Replica Management for Wide-Area Distributed Computing Environments.- Developing Parallel Cell-Based Filtering Scheme Under Shared-Nothing Cluster-Based Architecture.- User Oriented Design.- How Deep Should It Be? On the Optimality of Hierarchical Architectures.- A Spreadsheet Client for Web Applications.- Dynamic Construction of User Defined Virtual Cubes.- Data Mining and Agent-Oriented Computing.- Automatic Discovery of Regular Expression Patterns Representing Negated Findings in Medical Narrative Reports.- A Hybrid Method for Speeding SVM Training.- Design of Service Management System in OSGi Based Ubiquitous Computing Environment.- Short Papers.- Creating Consistent Diagnoses List for Developmental Disorders Using UMLS.- Enhancing Domain Engineering with Aspect-Orientation.- An Agent-Oriented Approach to Semantic Web Services.- Biometrics Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme.- Posters and Demonstrations.- The Third Query Paradigm.- ?-xSynopses - a System for Run-Time Management of XML Synopses.- LTS: The List-Traversal Synopses System.- The Promise and Challenge of Multidimensional Visualization.- : Bridging the Gap Between Web Services and the Semantic Web.- - A Scalable and Efficient Framework for Online Data Delivery.- Invited Talks.- Next Generation Enterprise IT Systems.- The Future of Web Search: From Information Retrieval to Information Supply.- Is There Life After the Internet?.