Advances in databases and information systems

The 9th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems took place from September 12–15, 2005, in Tallinn, Estonia, organized by the Institute of Cybernetics and the Department of Computer Engineering at Tallinn University of Technology, along with the Moscow chapter of ACM SIGMOD. This conference aimed to disseminate outstanding research and foster collaboration between database and information systems communities from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. It provided an international platform for presenting research on database theory, advanced DBMS technologies, and their applications in information systems. Continuing the tradition of previous ADBIS conferences held in various cities since 1997, the 2005 event featured regular sessions with technical contributions reviewed by an international Program Committee, as well as invited talks and tutorials from leading scientists. Notably, this conference introduced a satellite event, the ADMKD 2005 workshop, focused on data mining and knowledge discovery. This workshop, with its own Program Committee and proceedings, encouraged researchers and practitioners to discuss data mining research and implementation challenges, sharing experiences in developing and deploying data mining systems.