The first XML Database Symposium, XSym03, takes place in Berlin, on
Monday, September 8, the day before VLDB2003 starts. We received 65
submissions from which the program committee accepted the 18 papers below
for presentation.

Registraton to XSym03 is now open. Please use the VLDB registration system
under http://www.vldb.informatik.hu-berlin.de/ to register for XSym03. The
fee for the symposium is 150 Euro and includes the LNCS proceedings and
attendance to all sessions and breaks.

Accepted Papers:

An XML Repository Manager for Software Maintenance and Adaptation.
E. Isnard, R. Bercaru, A. Galatescu, V. Florian, L. Costea, D. Conescu

Tree Signatures for XML Querying and Navigation.
P. Zezula, G. Amato, F. Debole, F. Rabitti

Finding ID Attributes in XML Documents.
D. Barbosa, A. Mendelzon

Searching for Efficient XML-to-Relational Configurations.
M. Ramanath, J. Freire, J. Haritsa, P. Roy

Three Cases for Query Decorrelation in XQuery.
N. May, S. Helmer, G. Moerkotte

Representing Changes in XML Documents using Dimensions.
M. Gergatsoulis, Y. Stavrakas

XML-SQL Query Translation Literature: The State of the Art and Open
Problems.
R. Krishnamurthy, R. Kaushik, J. Naughton

Cursor Management for XML Data.
N. Li, J. Hui, H. Hsiao, P. Tijare

The Collection Index to Support Complex Approximate Queries on XML
Documents.
P. Ciaccia, W. Penzo

A Redundancy Free 4NF for XML.
M. Vincent, J. Liu

A Virtual XML Database Engine for Relational Databases.
C. Liu, M. Vincent, J. Liu, M. Guo

XML Stream Processing Quality.
W. Lehner, S. Schmidt, R. Gemulla

XViz: A Tool for Visualizing XPath Expressions.
B. Handy, D. Suciu

PowerDB-XML: a Platform for Data-Centric and Document-Centric XML
Processing.
T. Grabs, H.-J. Schek

Updating XQuery Views Published over Relational Data: A Roundtrip Case
Study.
L. Wang, M. Mulchandani, E. Rundensteiner

Repairs and Consistent Answers for XML Data with Functional Dependencies.
S Flesca, F Furfaro, S Greco, E Zumpano

Supporting XML Security Models using Relational Databases: A Vision.
D. Lee, W.-C. Lee, P. Liu

A DTD Graph Based XPath Query Subsumption Test.
S. Böttcher, R. Steinmetz



XSym03 web page: http://www.lirmm.fr/~bella/XSym/

VLDB home page: http://www.vldb.informatik.hu-berlin.de/