ICDE/EDBT Ph.D. Workshop 2004 Program

Session I: March 18, 2004 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Session II: March 29, 2004 in Boston, MA, USA


Preliminary Program


Session I: Heraklion


Keynote Address

Stefano Ceri, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
“What students should know about their PhD - and never dared to ask”
09:00-10:30

Session 1: Advanced Query Processing and Optimization

  • Querying Sliding Windows over On-Line Data Streams
    Lukasz Golab, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • MIRA: Multilingual Information processing on Relational Architecture
    A. Kumaran, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
11:00-12:30

Session 2: Semi-structured Data and XML

  • Index-based Keyword Search in Mediator Systems
    Ingolf Geist, University of Magdeburg, Germany
  • Concept-based Search on Semi-Structured Data Exploiting Mined Semantic Relations
    Jens Graupmann, Max-Planck Institut Saarbrücken, Germany
  • Towards a Reliable Peer-to-peer XML Database
    Predrag Knežević, Fraunhofer Institut Darmstadt, Germany
14:00-15:30

Session 3: Data Model, Access Methods and Control

  • Distributed and Scalable Similarity Searching in Metric Spaces
    Michal Batko, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
  • Pattern Based Management: Data Models and Architectural Aspects
    Anna Maddalena, University of Genoa, Italy
  • Access Control Techniques and Methodologies for Large and Highly Distributed Systems
    Pietro Mazzoleni, University of Milan, Italy
16:00-17:00

Session 4: Semantic Web

  • Managing Dynamic Repositories for Digital Content Components
    André Santanchè, University of Campinas, Brazil
  • Semantic Web Recommender Systems
    Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, University of Freiburg, Germany

Session II: Boston


Keynote Address

Michael Stonebraker, MIT, USA
“How to develop good research taste”
09:00-10:30

Session 1: Information Hiding and Trust Negotiation

  • Trust Negotiation Systems
    Anna C. Squicciarini, University of Milan, Italy
  • Digital Rights Protection beyond Multimedia
    Radu Sion, Purdue University, IN, USA
11:00-12:30

Session 2: Advanced Query Processing and Optimization

  • Continuous Query Processing in Spatio-temporal Databases
    Mohamed F. Mokbel, Purdue University, IN, USA
  • Load Distribution for Distributed Stream Processing
    Ying Xing, Brown University, RI, USA
  • XML Query Processing and Optimization
    Ning Zhang, University of Waterloo, Canada
14:00-15:30

Session 3: Data Models and Database Design

  • An Access Structure for Similarity Search in Metric Spaces
    Vlastislav Dohnal, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
  • Incremental Read-Aheads
    A. Soydan Bilgin, North Carolina State University, NC, USA
  • RAM: A Multidimensional Array DBMS
    Alex R. van Ballegooij, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands
16:00-17:30

Session 4: Information Retrieval and Interoperability

  • Handling Inconsistencies in Data Warehouses
    Mónica Caniupán, Carleton University, Canada
  • Data Sharing and Querying for Peer-to-Peer Data Management Systems
    Anastasios Kementsietsidis, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Relevance Feedback in XML Retrieval
    Hanglin Pan, Max-Planck Institut Saarbrücken, Germany