The East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information - stems (ADBIS) is the successor of the annual International Workshops with the same title that during 1993{1996 were organized in Russia by the Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter.

Invited Talks.- An Advanced Processing Environment for Managing the Continuous and Semistructured Features of Multimedia Content.- Database Systems as Middleware - Events, Notifications, Messages.- Regular Papers.- Managing Schemata for Semistructured Databases Using Constraints.- Caching for Mobile Communication.- Efficient Cache Management Protocol Based on Data Locality in Mobile DBMSs.- Algorithms for Rewriting Aggregate Queries Using Views.- A New High-Dimensional Index Structure Using a Cell-Based Filtering Technique.- Active System for Heterogeneous ODBMS Using Mobile Rule Codes.- 2-D Spatial Indexing Scheme in Optimal Time.- Mining around Association and Representative Rules.- A New Algorithm for Page Access Sequencing in Join Processing.- Data Organization Issues for Location-Dependent Queries in Mobile Computing.- Towards Intelligent Information Retrieval Engines: A Multi-agent Approach.- Design and Implementation of a Novel Approach to Keyword Searching in Relational Databases.- A Rule-Oriented Architecture to Incorporate Dissemination-Based Information Delivery into Information Integration Environments.- Hierarchical Materialisation of Method Results in Object-Oriented Views.- Finding Generalized Path Patterns for Web Log Data Mining.- Size Estimation of the Intersection Join between Two Line Segment Datasets.- Distributed Searching of k-Dimensional Data with Almost Constant Costs.- X2QL: An eXtensible XML Query Language Supporting User-Defined Foreign Functions.- Decision Committee Learning with Dynamic Integration of Classifiers.- Multiversion Linear Quadtree for Spatio-Temporal Data.- On the Analysis of On-Line Database Reorganization.- Short Papers.- Systematization of Approaches to Equality—Generating Constraints.- Efficient Region Query Processing byOptimal Page Ordering.- On Deploying and Executing Data-Intensive Code on SMart Autonomous Storage (SmAS) Disks.- An Efficient Storage Manager.- A Timeout-Based Mobile Transaction Commitment Protocol.- Flexible Integration of Optimistic and Pessimistic Concurrency Control in Mobile Environments.- An Analysis of Alternative Methods for Storing Semistructured Data in Relations.- Main-Memory Management in Temporal Object Database Systems.- Design Issues in Transaction-Time Temporal Object Database Systems.- Mobile Transaction Management in Mobisnap.- How to Manage Evolution in OODB?.