Proceedings 18th International Conference on Data Engineering

The following topics are dealt with: data engineering; database applications and experiences; semistructured data, metadata and XML; Web services infrastructures; scientific, engineering, statistical, temporal, spatial, and geographical databases; data warehousing and OLAP; data mining applications for CRM and personalization; middleware and metadata; Web caching; WWW and databases; heterogeneous, distributed and parallel databases; DBMS extensions for data warehousing and spatial data; database access structures and techniques; data, text and Web mining; database engine architecture and implementation; E-business; query processing and optimization; and performance-oriented architectures for Web applications.