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# International Workshop on
Pattern Representation and Management

### Proceedings of the Intl. Workshop on Pattern Representation and Management,
Heraklion, Hellas, March 18, 2004

Edited by

Yannis Theodoridis, CTI & Univ. of Piraeus
Panos Vassiliadis, Univ. of Ioannina, Greece

PaRMa 2004 was held in conjunction with the 9th Int. Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2004).

### Foreword

### Languages & Models for Pattern Management

Towards a Language for Pattern Manipulation and Querying
Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania and Anna Maddalena

PatManQL: A Language to Manipulate Patterns and Data in Hierarchical Catalogs
Panagiotis Bouros, Theodore Dalamagas, Timos Sellis and Manolis Terrovitis

UML-based Conceptual Modeling of Pattern-Bases
Stefano Rizzi

### Pattern Similarity & Prediction

The Notion of Similarity in Data and Pattern Spaces
Irene Ntoutsi

A Framework for the Comparison of Complex Patterns
Ilaria Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia and Marco Patella

Identifying Most Predictive Items
Markus Wawryniuk and Daniel Keim

### Systems & Algorithms

Fuzzy Miner - A Fuzzy System for Solving Pattern Classification Problems
Nikos Pelekis, Babis Theodoulidis and Ioannis Kopanakis

Finding Spatial Patterns in Network Data
Roland Heilmann, Daniel A. Keim, Christian Panse, Joern Schneidewind and Mike Sips

Using Classification and Visualization on Pattern Databases for Gene Expression Data Analysis
Celine Robardet, Ruggero Pensa, Jeremy Besson and Jean-Francois Boulicaut

### Panel

Pattern management challenges
Panos Vassiliadis, Barbara Catania, Daniel A. Keim, Yannis Theodoridis, Celine Robardet

submitted 13-Apr-2004 to CEUR-WS by Panos Vassiliadis