Schedule for 2003 CIDR Conference

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January 5:

3PM Registration Opens

6PM Dinner

7PM Reception

January 6:

9:00 to 10:30 Keynotes

• "Out of the Box" is Out of Control, Eric Brewer (University of California, Berkeley)
• Reflections on database systems, Pat Selinger (IBM)

10:30 to 11:00 break

11:00 to 12:30 DBMS Architecture

• Sorting And Indexing With Partitioned B-Trees, Goetz Graefe (Microsoft)
• Speculative Query Processing, Neoklis Polyzotis (University of Wisconsin - Madison) and Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens)
• A Case for Staged Database Systems, Stavros Harizopoulos and Anastassia Ailamaki (Carnegie Mellon University)

12:30 to 2:00 lunch

2:00 to 3:30 DBMS Architecture (continued)

• Active Server Availability Feedback,   James Hamilton (Microsoft)
• Capacity Bound-free Web Warehouse, Yahiko Kambayashi and Kai Cheng (Kyoto University)
• The Database Machine: Old Story, New Slant? Julie A. McCann (Imperial College London)

3:30 to 4:00 break

4:00 to 5:30 Text systems and web issues

• The BINGO! System for Information Portal Generation and Expert Web Searc, Sergej Sizov, Martin Theobald, Stefan Siersdorfer, Gerhard Weikum, Jens Graupmann Michael Biwer, and Patrick Zimmer (University of Saarland)
• XL: a platform for Web Services, Daniela Florescu (XQRL, Inc.), Andreas Gruenhagen (TU Muenchen), Donald Kossmann (TU Muenchen and XQRL, Inc.)
• Automated Ranking of Database Query Results, Sanjay Agrawal, Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das (Microsoft Research), and Aristides Gionis (Stanford Yniversity)

7:30 to 10:00 Gong Show (moderator Anastassia Ailamaki)

25 people will have 5 minutes to:

a) say what they are working on

b) present a problem they would like somebody to work on

January 7:

9:00 to 10:30 Peer-to_Peer Systems

• Towards High Performance Peer-to-Peer Content and Resource Sharing Systems, Peter Triantafillou (University of Patras), Chryssani Xiruhaki, Manolis Koubarakis (Technical University of Crete), and Nikolaos Ntarmos ( University of Patras)
• Crossing the Structure Chasm, Alon Halevy, Oren Etzioni (University of Washinton), Anhai Doan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  Zachary Ives (University of Pennsylvania), Jayant Madhavan, Luke McDowell, and Igor Tatarinov (University of Washington)
• Distributed Query Processing and Catalogs for Peer-to-Peer Systems, Vassilis Papadimos, David Maier (OGI/OHSU), and Kristin Tufte (OGI/OHSU)

10:30 to 11:00 break

11:00 to 12:00 P2P continued

• Approximate Range Selection Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems, Abhishek Gupta, Divyakant Agrawal, and Amr El Abbadi (University of California at Santa Barbara)
• Enter Once, Share Everywhere: User Profile Management in Converged Networks, Arnaud Sahuguet, Rick Hull, Daniel Lieuwen, and Ming Xiong (Bell-Labs)

12:00 to 1:30 lunch

1:30 to 3:30 DBMS in the sciences

• Indexing Large Trajectory Data Sets With SETI, V. Prasad Chakka, Adam Everspaugh, and Jignesh M. Patel (University of Michigan)
• Genomics Algebra: A New, Integrating Data Model, Language, and Tool for Processing and Querying Genomic Information, Joachim Hammer and Markus Schneider (University of Florida)
• SkyQuery: A Web Service Approach to Federate Databases, Tanu Malik and Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins University)
• The Virtual Data Grid: A New Model and Architecture for Data-Intensive Collaboration, Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory and The University of
  Chicago), Jens Voeckler (The University of Chicago), Michael Wilde (Argonne National Laboratory), and Yong Zhao (The University of Chicago)

3:30 to 4:30 beach walking break

4:30 to 5:30 Metadata and Stream Management

• Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems, Philip A.Bernstein (Microsoft Research)
• AIMS: An Immersidata Management System, Cyrus Shahabi (Univ. of Southern California)

7:30 to 10:00 Panel Discussions

Is "schema last" ever a good idea?  (moderator:  David Dewitt; panelists: Joe Hellerstein, Jennifer Widom, Michael Stonebraker, Alon Halevy)

Has the DBMS research community lost its way?  If so, what should be done? (moderator: Jim Gray; panelists: Dieter Gawlick, Mike Brodie, Hans Schek, Jeff Naughton)

January 8

8:30 to 10:30 Stream Management

• Query Processing in Sensor Networks, Yong Yao and Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University)

• Query Processing, Approximation, and Resource Management in a Data Stream Management System, Rajeev Motwani, Jennifer Widom, Arvind Arasu, Brian Babcock, ShivnathBabu, Mayur Datar, Gurmeet Manku, Chris Olston, Justin Rosenstein, and Rohit Varma (Stanford University)
• Scalable Distributed Stream Processing, Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis University), Hari Balakrishnan, Magdalena Balazinska (M.I.T.), Don Carney, Ugur Cetintemel, Ying Xing, and Stan Zdonik (Brown University)
• TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World, Sirish Chandrasekaran, Amol Deshpande, Mike Franklin, Joseph Hellerstein (UC Berkeley)
  Wei Hong (Intel Berkeley Lab), Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Sam Madden (UC Berkeley), Vijayshankar Raman (IBM Almaden Research Ctr), Fred Reiss, and Mehul Shah (UC Berkeley)

10:30 to 11:00 break

11:00 to 12:30 Engineering Practice

• Architectural Issues and Solutions in the Development of Data-Intensive Web Applications, Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali (Politecnico di Milano)
  Aldo Bongio, Stefano Butti, Roberto Acerbis, Marco Tagliasacchi, Giovanni Toffetti, Carlo Conserva, Roberto Elli, Fulvio Ciapessoni, and Claudio Greppi (WebRatio)
• Distributed Computing with BEA WebLogic Server, Dean Jacobs (BEA Systems)
• Managing Expressions as Data in Relational Database Systems, Aravind Yalamanchi, Jagannathan Srinivasan, and Dieter Gawlick (Oracle Corporation)