Advances in Data Management

Information Retrieval and Web Intelligence.- Automatic Index Selection in RDBMS by Exploring Query Execution Plan Space.- Integrated Retrieval from Web of Documents and Data.- Bipolar Queries: A Way to Enhance the Flexibility of Database Queries.- On Deriving Data Summarization through Ontologies to Meet User Preferences.- Granular Computing for Web Intelligence.- Knowledge Discovery.- Visualizing High Dimensional Classifier Performance Data.- Extending Rule-Based Classifiers to Improve Recognition of Imbalanced Classes.- Converting between Various Sequence Representations.- Considerations on Logical Calculi for Dealing with Knowledge in Data Mining.- Information Integration and Data Security.- A Study on Recent Trends on Integration of Security Mechanisms.- Monitoring-Based Approach for Privacy Data Management.- Achieving Scalability with Schema-Less Databases.- Intelligent Agents.- Managing Pervasive Environments through Database Principles: A Survey.- Toward a Novel Design of Swarm Robots Based on the Dynamic Bayesian Network.- Current Research Trends in Possibilistic Logic: Multiple Agent Reasoning, Preference Representation, and Uncertain Databases.- Data Management in Medical Domain.- Atherosclerosis Risk Assessment Using Rule-Based Approach.- Interpretation of Imprecision in Medical Data.- Promoting Diversity in Top Hits for Biomedical Passage Retrieval.