This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2003, held in Dresden, Germany in September 2003. The 29 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on compositional development, advanced query processing, transactions, retrieval from the Web, indexing techniques, active databases and workflows, complex value storage, data mining, formal query semantics, spatial aspects of information systems, XML processing, multimedia data management, information integration, and query containment.
This volume contains 29 submitted and 2 invited papers presented at the tenth East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADVIS 2003), which took place in Dresden, Germany, September 3–6, 2003. An international program committee of 42 members from 24 countries s- ected these contributions from 86 submissions. Eight additional contributions were selected as short papers and have been published in a separate volume of local proceedings by the organizing institution. For the ?rst time, ADBIS also included an industrial program consisting of nine submitted presentations by representatives of commercial companies active in the database market. ADBIS 2003 was the tenth scienti?c event taking place under the acronym ADBIS, and thus marks a ?rst “jubilee” for this young, but by now we- established,seriesofconferences. ADBISwasfoundedbytheMoscowACMSIG- MOD Chapter in 1993. In 1994–1996 ADBIS was held in the form of workshops organized by the MOSCOW ACM SIGMOD Chapter in collaboration with the RussianFoundationforBasicResearch. Inthisperiod,anumberofinternational guests were invited to Moscow every year in order to improve and consolidate contacts between the national research community in Russia and the research community worldwide. International program committees for ADBIS were es- blished in 1995, contributing to the quality of the selection process and thus of the conference contributions in general. In 1996, following discussions with Dr