Keynote Address -- Data Modeling for Mobile Services in the Real World -- Access Methods -- Performance Evaluation of Main-Memory R-tree Variants -- The BTR-Tree: Path-Defined Version-Range Splitting in a Branched and Temporal Structure -- Bkd-Tree: A Dynamic Scalable kd-Tree -- Advandced Query Processing -- Efficient Object-Relational Interval Management and Beyond -- Efficient k-NN Search on Streaming Data Series -- On Query Processing and Optimality Using Spectral Locality-Preserving Mappings -- Categorical Range Queries in Large Databases -- Probabilistic Spatial Database Operations -- Validity Information Retrieval for Spatio-Temporal Queries: Theoretical Performance Bounds -- Data Minning and Warehousing -- Exploiting the Multi-Append-Only-Trend Property of Historical Data in Data Warehouses -- Cross-Outlier Detection -- Accessing Scientific Data: Simpler is Better -- Distance-Based Queries -- Optimization of Spatial Joins on Mobile Devices -- On Spatial-Range Closest-Pair Query -- Evaluation of Iceberg Distance Joins -- Mobility and Moving Points Management -- Indexing Objects Moving on Fixed Networks -- On-Line Discovery of Dense Areas in Spatio-temporal Databases -- Accuracy and Resource Consumption in Tracking and Location Prediction -- Modeling and Languages -- Region-Based Query Languages for Spatial Databases in the Topological Data Model -- Query Pre-processing of Topological Constraints: Comparing a Composition-Based with Neighborhood-Based Approach -- Logical Data Expiration for Fixpoint Extensions of Temporal Logics -- A Multi-representation Spatial Data Model -- Similarity Processing -- Learning Similarity with Fuzzy Functions of Adaptable Complexity -- Spatial Similarity Queries with Logical Operators -- Exploiting Spatial Autocorrelation to Efficiently Process Correlation-Based Similarity Queries -- Systems and Implementation Issues -- Automatically Annotating and Integrating Spatial Datasets -- Location- and Time-Based Information Delivery in Tourism -- Building a Robust Relational Implementation of Topology.