14. COMAD 2008: Mumbai, India

• Front Matter and Table of Contents.
  

Keynote Addresses

• Surajit Chaudhuri:
  Decision Support Queries: A solved problem? 3
  
• S. Seshadri:
  Finding Information on the Web - Past, Present and Future. 4
  
• Raghu Ramakrishnan:
  Cloud Computing at Yahoo! 5-6
  

Web Search/IR

• Phanikumar Bhamidipati, Kamalakar Karlapalem:
  Kshitij: A Search and Page Recommendation System for Wikipedia. 9-20
  
• R. Karthik, Aditya Ramana Rachakonda, Srinath Srinivasa:
  Query Heartbeat: A Strange Property of Keyword Queries on the Web. 21-29
  
• Swapna Raj Prabakara Raj, Balaraman Ravindran:
  Personalized Web-page Rendering System. 30-39
  

Data Mining I

• Timothy de Vries, Sanjay Chawla, Pei Sun, Gia Vinh Anh Pham:
  Disk-Based Sampling for Outlier Detection in High Dimensional Data. 40-50
  
• Santhi Thilagam:
  CUM: An Efficient Framework for Mining Concept Units. 51-59
  
• Maitreya Natu, Girish Palshikar:
  Discovering Interesting Subsets Using Statistical Analysis. 60-70
  

Data Mining II

• Pratibha Rani, Vikram Pudi:
  REBMEC: Repeat Based Maximum Entropy Classifier for Biological Sequences. 71-82
  
• C. Ravindranath Chowdary, P. Sreenivasa Kumar:
  An Incremental Summary Generation System. 83-92
  
• V. Vijaya Saradhi, Harish Karnick, Pabitra Mitra:
  Topic Distillation using Support Vector Data Description. 93-103
  

Query Processing/Optimization

• Balakumar Kendai, Sharma Chakravarthy:
  Runtime Optimization of Continuous Queries. 104-115
  
• Md. Sumon Shahriar:
  Towards the Preservation of Keys in XML Data Transformation for Integration. 116-126
  
• Suresh Iyengar, S. Sudarshan, Santosh Kumar, Raja Agrawal:
  Exploiting Asynchronous IO using the Asynchronous Iterator Model. 127-138
  

Security/Integrity

• Chaoyi Pang, Xiuzhen Zhang, Yanchun Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao:
  The Efficient Maintenance of Access Roles with Role Hiding. 139-149
  
• Hui Wang:
  Ambiguity: Hide the Presence of Individuals and Their Privacy with Low Information Loss. 150-161
  

Transaction Management, Data Integration

• Thirumalaisamy Ragunathan, P. Krishna Reddy:
  Exploiting Semantics and Speculation for Improving the Performance of Read-only Transactions. 162-173
  
• Neha Singh, S. Sudarshan:
  Concurrency Control in Distributed MRA Index Structure. 174-185
  
• Aditya Telang, Sharma Chakravarthy, Yan Huang:
  Information Integration Across Heterogeneous Sources: Where Do We Stand and How to Proceed? 186-197
  

XML processing

• Sudarshan Murthy, David Maier:
  Declaratively Producing Data Mash-ups. 198-209
  
• Nobutaka Suzuki:
  On Inferring K Optimum Transformations of XML Document from Update Script to DTD. 210-221
  
• Abdul Nizar, P. Sreenivasa Kumar:
  Efficient Evaluation of Forward XPath Axes over XML Streams. 222-233
  

Research Session: Student Papers

• Xiao Jing, Pierre Pinel, Lei Pi, Vincent Aranega, Claude Baron:
  Modeling Uncertain and Imprecise Information in Process Modeling with UML. 237-240
  
• Ankita Vimal, Satyanarayana R. Valluri, Kamalakar Karlapalem:
  An Experiment with Distance Measures for Clustering. 241-244
  
• Aditya Telang, Sharma Chakravarthy, Chengkai Li:
  Querying for Information Integration: How to go from an Imprecise Intent to a Precise Query? 245-248
  

Industry/Application Session: Contributed Papers

• David Hoksza, Tomás Skopal:
  Native Multidimensional Indexing in Relational Databases. 251-260
  
• M. Vijayalakshmi, Bernard Menezes, Venu Gopal:
  Forecasting Using Consistent Experts. 261-269
  

Demonstrations

• Sarvjeet Singh, Chris Mayfield, Sagar Mittal, Sunil Prabhakar, Susanne E. Hambrusch, Rahul Shah:
  The Orion Uncertain Data Management System. 273-276
  
• Srinath Srinivasa, Aditya Ramana Rachakonda:
  Silverfish: A Contextual Knowledge Extraction and Aggregation System for Academics. 277-280
  

Tutorials

• Sharma Chakravarty:
  Graph Mining Techniques and Their Application. 283
  
• Zhenjie Zhang, Anthony K. H. Tung:
  Uncertain Clustering: Models, Methods and Applications. 284-285
  

Invited Industry Talks

• Mukesh K. Mohania:
  BI on Data and Content Together: What will you do with the derived insights? 289
  
• Rajeev Rastogi:
  Internet Research: What's hot in Search, Advertizing, and Cloud Computing. 290
  
• Shailesh Mungikar:
  Sybase Appliance for Extreme Analytics. 291
  
• Seshu Adunuthula:
  Building Internet Scale Applications using a Distributed Cache.