Spring 2001 Database Seminar


Invitation

We are soliciting talks from our faculty members, students, and visitors from industry and other institutions. Please consider sharing your interesting research on database systems with us. The dates open are listed below -- but if you happen to be available at some other date than those listed, or at a date that's already taken, please contact Ashraf Aboulnaga. We are very flexible in moving talks around!
 

Schedule

Unless otherwise announced, this one-hour seminar is held every Friday of the semester in room 2310 CS&S at 1:30 pm.

You can also check out the upcoming talks in the department's event page.

Date Speaker(s) Title Abstract/Paper Comments
Jan 26 Greta Tarar, Darren Dayley, and Brian Miezejewski
SABRE 		The Data Warehouse Solution to the Airline Industry Abstract
Feb 2 Divesh Srivastava
AT&T Labs Research 		Some Thoughts on XML Query Processing Abstract, Paper
Mon, Feb 5
(2310 CS, 1:30 pm) 		David Cracknell
Compaq 		Compaq's NonStop SQL/MX Database, The Follow-on to Tandem's NonStop SQL Product Abstract Note unusual day
Feb 9 Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
University of Wisconsin 		XPERANTO: Bridging Relational Technology and XML Abstract, Papers (1, 2, 3)
Feb 16 Johan Larson
University of Wisconsin 		Disconnected Browsing Abstract, Slides
Feb 23
No seminar

Mar 2 Hui Hsiao
IBM Almaden Research Center 		Datalinks: Foundation for eContent Management Abstract
Mar 9
No seminar

Mar 16 Spring Break No seminar

Mar 23 Raghav Kaushik
University of Wisconsin 		The A(k)-index: Exploiting Local Similarity for Indexing Paths in Graph-Structured Data Abstract, Slides (ppt)
Mar 30
No seminar

Apr 6
No seminar

Apr 13 Ashraf Aboulnaga
University of Wisconsin 		Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications Abstract, Papers (1, 2), Slides
Apr 20 Rajasekar Krishnamurthy
University of Wisconsin 		Dealing with (un)structuredness in XML Data and Queries Using Relational Databases Abstract, Paper
Apr 27 Jianjun Chen
University of Wisconsin 		Design and Evaluation of Alternative Selection Placement Strategies in Optimizing Continuous Queries Abstract
May 4 Prof. Jeffrey Naughton
University of Wisconsin 		Database Management Technology: From the Back Office to the Internet Abstract
May 11 1. Chun Zhang
(1:30-2:00)
2. Raghav Kaushik
(2:00-2:30)
University of Wisconsin 		1. On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems
2. On the Complexity of Join Predicates 		1. Abstract, Paper
2. Abstract, Paper 		Practice talks for SIGMOD/PODS

This page is maintained for the Spring 2001 semester by Ashraf Aboulnaga