Tutorials

Name Affiliation Title
Dr. Bernhard Collini-Nocker University of Salzburg
AUSTRIA
Community TV – a new dimension for immersive social networking
Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Schewe and
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Thalheim
New Zealand Information Science Research Centre
NEW ZEALAND and
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
GERMANY
Web Information Systems Co-Design
J. Wenny Rahayu,
Eric Pardede and
David Taniar
La Trobe University and
Monash University
AUSTRALIA
The new era of Web Data Warehousing: XML Warehousing Issues and Challenges

Community TV – a new dimension for immersive social networking

Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Bernhard Collini-Nocker
Department of Computer Science
University of Salzburg
Austria
bnocker_AT_cosy.sbg.ac.at
 

Abstract

The TV sector is facing many drastic changes and is witnessing a rapid transformation. New technologies such as interactive TV, High Definition TV, very high capacity Personal Video Recorder (HD-DVB, Blu-Ray mobile storage), Home Theatre Systems, Video On Demand, Personal TV, etc. are entering the market. Television is moving from analogue TV to digital TV, from multi-channel TV to personal TV, from fixed TV to TV any-time any-where, from "provider centric" to "viewer centric", from TV watching to TV blogging and community TV. In the near future we can expect the viewer taking a more active control of the TV content, taking part in virtual TV communities and exchanging experiences, becoming creative and more participative. We will also see the TV content industry adding new interactivity dimensions to their content productions, offering the viewers the possibility to personalise their viewing of a TV production. We will see the TV channels and media providers mutating from TV content global push business models to users TV content individual pull models. This technological and TV business evolution is already taking place and will accelerate strongly in the coming years.


Short Biography

Bernhard Collini-Nocker received his masters degree in Computing Sciences and Systems Analysis in 1993 and his doctor degree in Applied Informatics 1998. Since the early nineties he is university assistant and research associate responsible for technical activities in numerous EU and ESA funded projects. His research interests include multimedia networking, IP based multimedia protocols and applications over digital video broadcasting media and multimedia home platform applications.

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Web Information Systems Co-Design

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Schewe
New Zealand Information Science Research Centre
Palmerston North, New Zealand
kdschewe_AT_acm.org
Phone: +64 6 354 7771
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Thalheim
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Institute of Computer Science, Kiel, Germany
thalheim_AT_is.informatik.uni-kiel.de

Abstract

The tutorial will address the various aspects of web information systems (WISs) such as purpose, usage, content, functionality, context, presentation. Starting from the strategic characterisation of a WIS, i.e. the very general question what the WIS is about, we first explore the kind of content that is to be presented in the WIS, and the kind of functionality, with which this content can be accessed, customised to the needs of particular WIS users, and updated. We then explore the modelling of users (or actors) of the WIS, their goals, and the tasks that have to be performed to reach these goals, and general rules for the formation of the WIS presentation.
On a high-level of abstraction co-design emphasises storyboarding, which concerns the usage of the intended system. It consists of three interconnected parts: the modelling of the story space, the modelling of the actors, i.e. clases of users, and the modelling of tasks. We present a modelling language for storyboarding, and briefly discuss an algebraic approach to reason about storyboards emphasising the personalisation with respect to preference rules, and the satisfiability of deontic constraints. For the former one starting from the algebra that was used to specify story spaces, we will now show that this algebra can in fact be represented as a Kleene algebra with tests (KATs), which enables a simple form of system personalisation through effective term rewriting. We will further demonstrate how deontic constraints impact on the personalisation, then outline how this can be used to reason about tasks. In a third step we address pragmatics of storyboarding emphasising life cases, user models and context models that permit a deeper understand of what users actually understand the system to be used for. They further provide aids for practical storyboarding.
On a lower level of abstraction the co-design approach emphasises content and functionality modelling. This level takes a deeper look into the scenes of the storyboard and links them with the necessary database support. Each scene will be supported by a view on some underlying database that will result in the content to be presented. With respect to functionality operations are added to the views. These operations have to be understood as detailed specifications of the actions that appear in the storyboard. In a last step we introduce three more extensions to the views. The first one is hierarchies, which enable more coarse or more detailed presentation of information. The second extension addresses adaptivity to technical restrictions such as channel bandwidth or end-devices. The third extension deals with presentation options using knowledge about cognitive models and facts from art to bring strategic considerations on ambience into the conceptual model.


Short Biography

Klaus-Dieter Schewe (MSc, PhD, DSc) was full professor at Massey University, and is now Director of the New Zealand Information Science Research Centre. His major research interests are database theory and systems, logic in databases and systems development methodologies, in particular for web information systems. He has published more than 200 refereed publications, and has been programme committee chair and general chair for several international events such as ADC, FoIKS, QSIC, ER and WISE.

Bernhard Thalheim (MSc, PhD, DSc) is full professor at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel in Germany. His major research interests are database theory, logic in databases, and systems development methodologies, in particular for web information systems. He has published more than 250 refereed publications, and has been programme committee chair and general chair for several international events such as MFDBS, ER, FoIKS, ASM, NLDB, ADBIS and WISE.

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The new era of Web Data Warehousing: XML Warehousing Issues and Challenges

J. Wenny Rahayu and Eric Pardede
Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering
La Trobe University
Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia
W.Rahayu_AT_latrobe.edu.au
E.Pardede_AT_latrobe.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9479 1282
Fax: +61 3 9479 3060
 
David Taniar
Clayton School of Information Technology
Monash University
Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
David.Taniar_AT_infotech.monash.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9905 9693
Fax: +61 3 9905 5159

Abstract

The need to extract knowledge from web data warehousing just 'in-time' for decision making has increased significantly. An efficient system that can generate up-to-date analysis and decision making of the ever changing web-based information will play a very important role in the current global market and society. The new era of business intelligence and web databases brings in new research and development issues whereby the efficient integration of various web data is needed and timely analysis of data resources are vital. Web Data Warehousing is a growing area that addresses the need for an efficient web data summary to support decision making and ensure the quality of web data analysis.
It is a common knowledge that the majority of web information structure is now represented in an XML based representation. As a result, many domain standard bodies have also started to introduce the use of XML encoding for their data specification standard, such as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) which is XML-based representation for business processes, HL7 (Health Language 7) which includes XML-based representation for health informatics data exchange, AIXM (Aeronautical Inter Exchange Model) in aeronautical data exchange, and so on. It is then crucial that a data warehouse be built with an underpinning technology that supports global information interactions and management and this is the reason for the emergence of XML representation for web data warehousing.
The hierarchical nature of XML within an XML data warehouse and the fact that it represents a document warehouse rather than the traditional table based relational warehouse, have raised the need for new methodologies in dealing with warehousing issues.
In this tutorial, we will cover specific issues in XML data warehousing, including:

  • XML data warehouse design and construction
  • Temporal XML data warehouse
  • Right time XML data warehouse
  • Security and Privacy in XML data warehouse
  • Domain specific applications in XML warehousing: Health Informatics and Aviation (Air Traffic) Systems


Short Biography

J. Wenny Rahayu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering LaTrobe University. Her PhD thesis in the area of Object-Relational Databases has been awarded the Best PhD Thesis 2001 by the Computer Science Association Australia. In 2003, she was awarded the Dean’s Award for excellence in teaching. Her research areas cover a wide range of advanced databases topics including XML Databases and Data Warehousing, Object-Relational Databases, Distributed and Parallel Databases, and Semantic Web and Ontology. She is currently the Head of Data Engineering and Knowledge Management Laboratory at La Trobe University. To date, she has successfully supervised to completion 8 PhDs and more than 10 Masters/Honours level students. She publishes extensively every year, including five books (two authored and three edited), and more than 80 research papers in international journals and proceedings.

Eric Pardede completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Master of Information Technology from La Trobe University. He has published his research works in various books, international journals and conference proceedings. Current, he is a lecturer in software engineering and database at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

David Taniar holds Bachelors (Honours), Masters, and PhD degrees &ndash all in Computer Science/Information Technology, with a particular speciality in Databases. He publishes extensively every year. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. He is a founding editor-in-chief of a number of international journals, including Intl J of Data Warehousing and Mining, Intl J of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Mobile Information Systems, Journal of Mobile Multimedia, Intl J of Web Information Systems, and Intl J of Web and Grid Services.

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