CS8001I - Database Seminar
- FALL 2000 -

Instructor: Prof. Shamkant B. Navathe
Time: Thurs. 11:00-12:00
Location TBA
e-mail: sham@cc.gatech.edu
Phone: (404) 894-0537
Office hours: by appointment
Office: CCB 139
Secretary: Gwen Baker 894-8358, Room 263 CoC, gwen@cc.gatech.edu


Objective

This is the informal group meeting for the Database Systems Research Group. We will discuss topics from selected papers from last year's SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE. All are welcome to sit in on the seminar. Our focus will change from week to week, including informal discussions, presentations of papers, practice talks, etc


Participants

Dave Buttler

Dave Buttler
(Ph.D.)

Samuel Collins

Samuel Collins
(Ph.D.)

Wei Han

Wei Han
(Ph.D.)

Chris Jermaine

Chris Jermaine
(Ph.D.)

Angus McLean

Angus McLean
(Ph.D.)

Smita Ohja

Smita Ohja
(Master's)

Carlos Ordonez

Carlos Ordonez
(Ph.D.)

Henrique Paques

Henrique Paques
(Ph.D.)

Wei Tang

Wei Tang
(Ph.D.)

Wai Gen Yee

Wai Gen Yee
(Ph.D.)



Schedule

Date Paper(s) Presenter Location
August 31, 2000 XMill: an Efficient Compressor for XML Data
Hartmut Liefke and Dan Suciu
Chris CCB 155
September 7, 2000 Synchronizing a Database To Improve Freshness
Junghoo Cho, Hector Garcia Molina
Wai Gen CCB 155
September 14, 2000 Y+tree - High performance Index Structure for Data Warehousing Smita Ohja Database Lab
September 21, 2000 Mining Complex Databases Using the EM Algorithm Carlos Database Lab
September 28, 2000 Efficient Evaluation of Regular Path Expressions on Streaming XML Data
Zachary G. Ives, Alon Y. Levy, Daniel S. Weld
Technical Report UW-CSE-2000-05-02, Un iversity of Washington.
Dave CCB 109
October 5, 2000 Efficient Filtering of XML Documents for Selective Dissemination of Information
Mehmet Altinel, Michael J. Franklin, VLDB, 2000.
Wei Han CCB 109
October 12, 2000 Mapping Relational, Network, and Hierarchical Models into
XML Schemas for Heterogeneous Datbase Access
Samuel CCB 164
October 19, 2000 Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing [PDF][PS]
Ron Avnur and Joseph Hellerstein, SIGMOD, 2000
Henrique CCB 101
October 26, 2000 A Framework for Designing Update Objects to Improve Server Scalability in Intermittently Synchronized Databases Wai Gen CCB 109
November 2, 2000 Semantic caching of Web queries
Boris Chidlovskii, Uwe M. Borghoff, VLDB, 2000
Wei Tang CCB 109
November 9, 2000 Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering
Jim Grey, Prashant Shenoy, ICDE 2000.
Chris CCB 109
November 16, 2000 An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data Integration
Zachary G. Ives, Daniela Florescu, Marc Friedman, Alon Levy and Daniel S. Weld - SIGMOD'99
Henrique CCB 109
November 23, 2000 Official School Holiday No Meeting No Meeting
November 30, 2000 Experiments in Automating Object Extraction from Web pages Dave CCB 109



Contact Information:

Samuel R. Collins
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280

Last Modified: September 7, 2000