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Overview: If you are interested in database research, you are welcome to join us in our weekly database seminar. Every week a local or visiting researcher gives a talk on his/her research topic.

   

Location/Time: The seminar is held on Fridays at 1:30-3pm in EBU3B 3217

   

Course Number: If you are a student and plan to attend, please enroll in CSE 239A.

   

Mailing List: Announcements about the seminar are sent to the DBTalks mailing list. To (un)subscribe, please click here.

   

Organization: The seminar in Spring 2008 is organized by Alin Deutsch.

   
 
   
May 22 Processing XML Data in the Presence of Side-Effects
Jerome Simeon (IBM T.J. Watson)
Abstract

This talk will be held on May 22, 2:30 pm in CSE 2109
  
 
   
May 23 Wikianalytics
Andrey Balmin (IBM Almaden)
Abstract

This talk will be held on May 23, 12:30 pm in CSE 2217
   
 
   
2008
   
May 09 Handling Data Skew in Parallel Joins in Shared-Nothing Systems
Yu Xu (Teradata)
Abstract
  
May 02 Privacy in data publishing: a unified view
Avinash Vyas (UCSD)
Abstract
  
Apr 11 Disambiguation of textual and web data
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov (UCI)
Abstract
  
Apr 04 Private Queries in Location Based Services: Anonymizers are not Necessary
Gabriel Ghinita (National University of Singapore)
Abstract
  
Feb 29 Making Text Search More Powerful by Supporting Fuzzy String Matching
Chen Li (UC Irvine)
Abstract
  
Feb 22 Querying XML Peers
Emiran Curtmola (UCSD)
Abstract
  
Feb 15 Versatile and Efficient Keyword Search on Large-Scale Graph-Structured Data
Heasoo Hwang (UCSD)
Abstract
  
Feb 08 Automatic Composition of Services
Fabio Patrizi ("La Sapienza" University of Rome)
Abstract
  
Jan 25 Processing Web-Scale Data with Pig
Chris Olston (Yahoo! Research)
Abstract
  
Jan 18 Modelling Real P2P Networks: The Effect of Altruism
Vasilis Vassalos (AUEB and UCSD)
Abstract
  
Jan 11 ChemXSeer: A Digital Library for Chemical Kinetics Data & Scientific Literature
Prasenjit Mitra (Penn State)
Abstract
  
   
2007
   
Nov 30 Community-oriented Information Integration
Yannis Katsis (UCSD)
Abstract
  
Nov 16 Learning in Query Optimization
Volker Markl (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Abstract
  
Nov. 2 ZeroX: XQuery Enabled Workflows
Nicola Onose (UCSD)
Abstract
  
Oct 19 Scientific Data Management: The Quest for More Abstraction
Kai Lin (SDSC)
Abstract
  
Oct 12 SQL Log Analysis: An Exploration of XQuery as a Tool to Analyze SQL Parse Trees
Nathan Bales (UCSD)
Abstract
  
Oct 5 Faster XPath processing on commodity relational systems
Vasilis Vassalos (AUEB and UCSD)
Abstract
  
June 8 Provenance Semirings
Val Tannen (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Abstract
  
May 25 Evaluating Queries on Mystiq, a Probabilistic Database
Nathan Bales (UCSD)
Abstract
  
May 17 Sequencing Paradigm for XML Twig Pattern Matching
Praveen Rao (Univ. of Arizona)
Abstract
  
May 11 Query reformulation under constraints
Alin Deutsch (UCSD)
Abstract
  
Apr 27 Computing Joins via Fractional Edge Covers
Martin Grohe (Univ. Humbolt, Berlin)
Abstract
   
Apr 13 Views and queries: determinacy vs. rewriting
Victor Vianu(UCSD)
Abstract
   
Apr 06 Querying biological databases
Vineet Bafna (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Mar 09 Talk by
Yu Xu (Teradata)
   
Feb 23 Optimizing Queries Using Inverse Functions
Nicola Onose (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Feb 16 A Framework for XML-based Integration of Data visualization and Analysis in a Biomedical Domain
Nathan Bales (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Feb 09 Querying Inconsistent Databases: A Survey
Yannis Katsis (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Feb 02 Optimized Execution of Continuous Queries over Distributed Data: A Cost-based Approach
Ravi Vijay (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Jan 26 Strongly-coupled semantic data integration in P2P settings
Elio Damaggio (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Jan 19 Query Decomposition: A Survey
Nicola Onose (UCSD)
Abstract, Slides
   
   
2006
   
Nov 17 app2you: Build a Database-Driven Web Application in Just Minutes
Kian Win Ong (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Nov 03 Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams
Alexander Loukissas (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Oct 27 XTreeNet: A Scalable Unified Overlay Network with Efficient XML Content Access Methods in Distributed Networks
Emiran Curtmola (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Oct 20 Automated Verification and Testing of Legacy Web Applications Using WAVE
Dayou Zhou (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Oct 13 XML Query Optimizations in the Presence of Side Effects
Nicola Onose (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Oct 03 How Could We All Get Along on the Web 2.0?
(The Power of Structured Data on the Web)
Sihem Amer-Yahia (Yahoo! Research)
Abstract
   
Sep 29 External Memory Algorithms for Shortest Distance Queries
Sandeep Gupta (San Diego Supercomputing Center)
Abstract
   
Sep 22 Efficiently Representing and Querying Sensor Network Readings on Data Grids
Elio Masciari (Univ. of Calabria, Italy)
Abstract
   
May 26 Access Control Mechanisms in Distributed XML Publishing Environments
Bogdan Cautis (INRIA)
Abstract
   
May 19 Querying and Mining in Graph Databases
Ambuj Singh (UC Santa Barbara)
Abstract
   
May 12 Indexing Shared Content in Information Retrieval Systems
Marcus Fontoura (Yahoo! Research)
Abstract
   
May 11 Models for Incomplete and Probabilistic Information
Val Tannen (University of Pennsylvania)
Abstract
   
Apr 21 Efficient query processing on XML streams
Yi Chen (Arizona State University)
Abstract
   
Mar 10 An XML-based architecture for Web 2.0 applications
Daniela Florescu (Oracle)
Abstract
   
Mar 03 Survey on OLAP
Kian Win Ong (UCSD), Nicola Onose (UCSD)
Abstract, Slides, Demo in Excel
   
Feb 24 Survey on privacy in data publishing
Yannis Katsis (UCSD), Avinash Vyas (UCSD)
Abstract, Slides
   
Feb 17 Survey on quality-based integration
Heasoo Hwang (UCSD)
Abstract, Slides
   
Feb 10 Specification and Verification of Interactive, Data-Driven Web Applications
Liying Sui (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Feb 03 Data Integration, Data Exchange, and Privacy
Alan Nash (UCSD)
   
Jan 27 Query reformulation under constraints (Part 2)
Alin Deutsch (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Jan 20 Query reformulation under constraints (Part 1)
Alin Deutsch (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Jan 13 Efficient Native XML Storage
Vagelis Hristidis (Florida International University)
Abstract
   
   
2005
   
Nov 04 Exception Handling in Workflow-Driven Web Applications
Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano)
Abstract
   
Oct 21 Stack-based Algorithms for Pattern Matching on DAGs
Li Chen (SDSC)
Abstract
   
Oct 14 A Logical Framework for XML Full-Text Search
Emiran Curtmola (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Oct 07 XML Tools for Wireless Configuration Data Migration
Avinash Vyas (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Sep 23 The NEXT+ Framework for Logical XQuery Optimization
Yu Xu (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Jun 03 Views and Queries: Determinacy and Rewriting
Victor Vianu (UCSD)
Abstract
   
May 20 WAVE: A Verifier for Interactive, Data-driven Web Applications
Alin Deutsch (UCSD)
Abstract
   
May 13 Talk on Liquid Data
Vinayak Borkar (BEA)
   
May 06 Determining Source Contribution in Integration Systems
Yannis Katsis (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Apr 22 Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases
Yu Xu (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Apr 15 Active XML: A Data-Centric Perspective on Web Services
Omar Benjelloun (Stanford)
Abstract
   
Apr 01 XQuery Midflight: Emerging Database-Oriented Paradigms and a Classification of Research Advances
Ioana Manolescu (INRIA), Yannis Papakonstantinou (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Mar 04 How to be a Successfull Graduate Student
Yannis Papakonstantinou (UCSD)
Collection of thoughts of multiple advisors, filtered and presented by Yannis
   
Feb 18 XML Data Services: Data Modeling in the Web Services Era
Mike Carey (BEA Systems)
Abstract
   
Feb 14 Toward Large-Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier for the Deep Web
Kevin Chang (UIUC)
Abstract
   
Feb 11 Exporting and Utilizing Database Interfaces on the Web (Interview practice talk)
Michalis Petropoulos (UCSD)
   
Feb 04 Grouping in XML
Yu Xu (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Jan 28 Self-tuning and Agent-based Databases
Sergio Lifschitz (PUC-Rio)
Abstract
   
Jan 21 Composition of mappings given by embedded dependencies
Alan Nash (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Jan 14 Some Database Research Problems in Bioinformatics
Sergio Lifschitz (PUC-Rio)
Abstract
   
   
2004
   
Nov 12 Rewriting RDF Queries Using a Relational Model
Nicola Onose (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Nov 05 GalaTex, a full-text search extension to XQuery
Emiran Curtmola (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Oct 29 A Verifier for Interactive, Data-Driven Web Services
Alin Deutsch (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Oct 22 Integration and Portals Made Cheap
Yannis Papakonstantinou (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Oct 15 Application-driven Interactive Source Registration
Yannis Katsis (UCSD)
   
Oct 08 CLIDE: Interactively Building Feasible Queries on Query Rewriting-Based Systems
Michalis Petropoulos (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Oct 01 Tutorial on Formal Models and Verification of Web Services
Victor Vianu (UCSD)
   
Jun 09 Choreography Languages for Web Services and Business Processes: A survey
Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano)
Abstract
   
May 26 Are We There Yet: A Closer Look at XQuery
Fatma Ozcan (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Abstract
   
May 12 A Survey of Algorithms for Checking Containment of Conjunctive
Dayou Zhou (UCSD)
The work will present and compare the Levy-Sagiv [VLDB'93] and the Lausen-Wei [ICDT'03] algorithms
   
May 05 Title
Chen Li
   
Apr 12 Continuous Queries over Data Streams: facing up to the problems
Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA)
Abstract
   
Apr 07 Accelerating Symbolic Computation with Reconfigurable Hardware
Eric Lemoine (Tarari)
Abstract
   
Feb 16 Keyword Search in Structured and Semistructured Databases
Vagelis Hristidis (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Feb 11 Search Engines Considered Harmful (In Search of an Unbiased Web Ranking)
Junghoo Cho (UCLA)
Abstract
   
Feb 04 Actor-oriented Metaprogramming
Steve Neuendorffer (UC Berkeley)
Abstract
   
Jan 26 Generic Model Management: A Database Infrastructure for Schema
Philip Bernstein (Microsoft Research)
Abstract
   
Jan 22 Automated Verification = Graphs, Automata, and Logic
Moshe Vardi (Rice University)
Abstract
   
Jan 21 And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth
Moshe Vardi (Rice University)
Abstract
   
Jan 14 Pegasus: Mapping complex applications onto the Grid
Ewa Deelman (USC)
Abstract
   
   
2003
   
Dec 02 Interactive web services
Liying Sui (UCSD)
   
Nov 18 Searching DAG databases
Tulika Agrawal (UCSD)
   
Nov 11 Processing queries under limited access patterns
Alan Nash (UCSD)
   
Nov 04 Privacy in databases
Alin Deutsch (UCSD)
   
Oct 21 XQuery normalization
Yu Xu (UCSD)
   
Oct 16 How to use XML for DB applications
Murali Mani (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
   
Oct 07 Validation of view updates
Alan Nash (UCSD)
   
Mar 21 Title
Amarnath Gupta (SDSC), Simone Santini (UCSD)
   
Feb 21 PIX: A System for Phrase Matching in XML Documents
Yu Xu (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Feb 14 MARS: A System for Publishing XML
Alin Deutsch (UCSD)
   
Feb 07 Integrating Data by Integrating Meta-Data and Meta-Data Languages
Joseph Goguen (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Jan 31 Random Walks in Ranking Query Results in Semistructured Databases
Vagelis Hristidis (UCSD)
Abstract, Slides
   
Jan 24 Validating Streaming XML Documents
Victor Vianu (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Jan 15 A Transducer-Based XML Query Processor
Pratik Mukhopadhyay (UCSD)
Abstract, Slides of VLDB 2002
   
   
2002
   
Dec 13 The XML Stream Processing Problem: Automata and Stream Indexes
Dan Suciu (Univ. of Washington)
Abstract
   
Dec 12 Controlled Data Publishing
Gerome Miklau (Univ. of Washington)
Abstract
   
Nov 22 Incremental Validation of XML Documents
Yannis Papakonstantinou (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Nov 15 Information Filtering, Continuous Queries, and Adaptive Data Flow Processing
Mike Franklin (UC Berkeley)
Abstract
   
Nov 01 Exploring the combined potential of web applications and web services
Ioana Manolescu (INRIA)
Abstract
   
Oct 25 Efficient Validation of XML Updates
Andrey Balmin (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Oct 18 Optimization of nested XQueries using minimization
Alin Deutsch (UCSD), Yannis Papakonstantinou (UCSD)
   
Oct 11 Efficient Keyword Search in Relational Databases
Vagelis Hristidis (UCSD)
Abstract
   
Oct 04 Looking at Local-As-View and Global-As-View Through Logic Programming Glasses
Alin Deutsch (UCSD), Bertram Ludaescher (SDSC)
Abstract
   
Sep 18 Statistics-based Query Relaxation for Semistructured Data
Michalis Petropoulos (UCSD)
Abstract
   
 
 

 

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