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Table of Contents Preface .................................................................................................. vi Acknowledgments ................................................................................ xii S ECTION I: I NDUSTRIAL D ATABASES AND A PPLICATIONS Chapter I Databases Modeling of Engineering Information ................................ 1 Z. M. Ma, Northeastern University, China Chapter II Database Design Based on B ............................................................. 35 Elvira Locuratolo, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Chapter III The Management of Evolving Engineering Design Constraints ....... 62 T. W. Carnduff, University of Glamorgan, UK J. S. Goonetillake, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Chapter IV Similarity Search for Voxelized CAD Objects ................................. 115 Hans-Peter Kriegel, University of Munich, Germany Peer Kröger, University of Munich, Germany Martin Pfeifle, University of Munich, Germany Stefan Brecheisen, University of Munich, Germany Marco Pötke, software design & management AG, Germany Matthias Schubert, University of Munich, Germany Thomas Seidl, RWTH Aachen, Germany Chapter V STEP-NC to Complete Product Development Chain ....................... 148 Xun W. Xu, University of Auckland, New Zealand Chapter VI Semantic-Based Dynamic Enterprise Information Integration ....... 185 Jun Yuan, The Boeing Company, USA Chapter VII Web Service Integration and Management Strategies for Large-Scale Datasets .................................................................. 217 Yannis Panagis, University of Patras & Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece Evangelos Sakkopoulos, University of Patras & Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece Spyros Sioutas, University of Patras, Greece Athanasios Tsakalidis, University of Patras & Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece Chapter VIII Business Data Warehouse: The Case of Wal-Mart ........................ 244 Indranil Bose, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lam Albert Kar Chun, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Leung Vivien Wai Yue, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Li Hoi Wan Ines, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Wong Oi Ling Helen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Chapter IX A Content-Based Approach to Medical Image Database Retrieval ........................................................................... 258 Chia-Hung Wei, University of Warwick, UK Chang-Tsun Li, University of Warwick, UK Roland Wilson, University of Warwick, UK S ECTION II: G ENERIC D ATABASE M ODELING Chapter X Conceptual Modeling for XML: A Myth or a Reality .................... 293 Sriram Mohan, Indiana University, USA Arijit Sengupta, Wright State University, USA Chapter XI Constraint-Based Multi-Dimensional Databases ............................ 323 Franck Ravat, Université Toulouse I, France Olivier Teste, Université Toulouse III, France Gilles Zurfluh, Université Toulouse I, France About the Authors .............................................................................. 361 Index ................................................................................................... 369

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