Database and Expert System App I

This volume includes invited papers, research papers, and short papers presented at DEXA 2011, the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, held in Toulouse, France. DEXA 2011 continued the long and successful DEXA tradition begun in 1990, bringing together a large collection of bright researchers, scientists, and practitioners from around the world to share new results in the areas of database, intelligent systems, and related advanced applications. The call for papers resulted in the submission of 207 papers, of which 52 were accepted as regular research papers, and 40 were accepted as short papers. The authors of these papers come from 47 different countries. These papers discuss a range of topics including