The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and promote interaction and collaboration between the database and information systems research communities from Central and East European countries and the rest of the world. ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications.
ADBIS 2010 spans a wide area of interests, covering all major aspects related to theory and applications of database technology and information systems. Two different submission lines have been considered for ADBIS 2010, one within the classical way and another one within a special track organization. ADBIS attracted 5 tracks:
1. Conceptual Modeling in Systems Engineering (CMSE); 2. Data Mining and Information Extraction (DMIE); 3. Business Processes in E-Commerce Systems (e-commerce); 4. Personal Identifiable Information: Privacy, Ethics, and Security (PIIPES); 5. Warehousing and OLAPing Complex, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data (WOCD).
In total, the conference attracted 165 paper submissions from Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lithuania, FYR Macedonia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, and United States of America. In a rigorous reviewing process, 36 papers have been selected as long contributions for inclusion into the main conference proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (vol. 6295), and oral presentation at the conference. Moreover, 14 papers were selected as short contributions (challenges papers), to be presented by posters. All papers have been evaluated by at least three reviewers. The selected papers span a wide spectrum of topics in the database and information systems field, including database theory, database management system architectures, design methods, data mining and data warehousing, spatial, temporal, and moving objects, database applications.
The larger part of this volume is devoted to papers from two ADBIS 2010 workshops: Querying Graph Structured Data (GraphQ), co-chaired by Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia and Wilma Penzo, and Model Driven Approaches in System Development (MDASD), co-chaired by Ivan Luković and Sonja Ristić. In addition, this volume includes long versions of four ADBIS 2010 challenges papers, and one invited paper.
We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of ADBIS 2010. We thank the authors, who submitted papers to the conference and the workshops. Special thanks is due to the tracks co-chairs, to the main conference and tracks Program Committee members, to the MDASD and GraphQ workshop co-chairs and Program Committee members, as well as to the external reviewers, for their support in evaluating the papers submitted to ADBIS 2010 and the workshops, ensuring high quality of the scientific program. Our gratitude goes out to all members of the local organizing team in Novi Sad, for giving their time and expertise to ensure the success of the conference, and especially Miloš Radovanović, Doni Pracner and Marija Veselinović for helping to prepare this local proceedings volume and the conference program booklet for publication. We also thank the Springer publishing house for publishing the main conference proceedings containing invited and research papers in the LNCS series. The Program Committee work relied on MuCoMS, which proved to be a very convenient tool for this kind of work, so that we are also grateful to the MuCoMS development team and to its leader, Markus Kirchberg. Finally, we thank the Steering Committee and, in particular, its Chair, Leonid Kalinichenko, for their help and guidance. Last, but not least, we thank the participants of ADBIS 2010 for having made our work useful.
Mirjana Ivanović Bernhard Thalheim Barbara Catania Zoran Budimac