The growing importance of the World Wide Web as a means to manage and publish both data and functionality has lead to new and interesting research questions in the field of databases, on already existing subjects and on completely new ones. This workshop aims at bringing together database researchers, from both the theoretical and practical side, to discuss whether the right subjects on Web data management are being researched, and whether there are new and interesting areas that have not been sufficiently addressed yet.
Therefore, we invite papers that contain theoretical results that could open up new research areas in Web data management, as well as application-oriented papers that present ideas and applications that raise new and interesting research questions.
Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include:
| Paper submission: | Fri, Nov 3, 2006 |
| Notification of acceptance: | Thu, Nov 30, 2006 |
| Camera-ready copy due: | Thu, Dec 21, 2006 |
| Workshop: | Sat, Jan 13, 2007 |
Paper submissions must be in electronic form using Portable Document Format (.pdf). Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LaTeX2e style llncs for Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which is available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The length should not exceed 15 pages. Papers longer than 15 pages risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
The submissions will be judged for scientific quality and relevance. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present the work. There will be only informal proceedings, so work and results presented at this workshop may be republished elsewhere. Submissions can be sent to the e-mail address erow07@gmail.com.
There will be three invited talks at the workshop:
Speaker: Bertram Ludaescher, Department of Computer Science & Genome Center, UC Davis, and San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, USA
Title: Scientific Workflows: Research Opportunities for the Practically-Oriented Theoretician
Abstract: In recent years, 'scientific workflow' is emerging as an area of increasing research and development activity. Reasons include the growing needs in many domain science communities to better support scientific data management and analysis, thus shifting the scientists' energy away from many low-level "plumbing activities", and towards focusing on doing more of the science. While there are now many activities in scientific workflows, there are few if any theoretical foundations of the area. What is a natural underlying model for scientific workflows? What formalisms can incorporate (i) high-level workflow design issues, combining a data-oriented with a process-oriented and "science-oriented" view, and (ii) lower-level optimization issues, e.g. to exploit task-, pipeline-, and data-parallelism? There is some hope that a synthesis from a number of research areas, including databases, functional programming, and software engineering can advance the state of the art in scientific workflows. The talk will highlight some of the existing challenges and point out research opportunities for the "practically-oriented theoretician".
Speaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research Barcelona
Title: Web Query Mining
Abstract: User queries in search engines and Websites give valuable information on the interests of people. In addition, clicks after queries relate those interests to actual content. Even queries without answers imply important missing synonyms or content. In this talk we show several examples on how to use this information to improve the performance of search engines, to recommend better queries, and to improve the information scent of the content of a Website.
Speaker: Madhusudan Parthasarathy, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Title: Visibly Pushdown Automata for XML
Abstract: (to be announced)
| 8:45 - 9:00 | Opening |
| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Invited Talk Scientific Workflows: Research Opportunities for the Practically-Oriented Theoretician Bertram Ludaescher (UC Davis and San Diego Supercomputer Center) |
| 10:00 - 11:15 |
Paper Session: Distributed Data Management Integrating XQuery and P2P in MonetDB/XQuery Ying Zhang, Peter Boncz (CWI, the Netherlands) Scalable Query Dissemination in XPeer Giovanni Conforti, Giorgio Ghelli, Paolo Manghi and Carlo Sartiani (U. of Pisa, ISTI-CNR and Dortmund U.) Optimization of Query Plans in the presence of Access Limitations Andrea Cali, Diego Calvanese and Davide Martinenghi (Free U. of Bozen-Bolzano) |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Coffee break |
| 11:45 - 12:45 |
Invited Talk Web Query Mining Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research Barcelona) |
| 12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:45 |
Paper Session: Document Querying and Classification Coupling Fragments of XPath with XML Indexing and Query Decomposition George H.L. Fletcher, Dirk Van Gucht, Yuqing Wu, Marc Gyssens, and Jan Paredaens (Indiana U, Hasselt U. & Transnational U. Limburg, and U. of Antwerp) Hierarchical Summarizing and Evaluating for Web Pages Kou TAKAHASHI, Takao MIURA, and Isamu SHIOYA (HOSEI U. and Sannno U) Finding K Optimum Edit Scripts between an XML Document and a RegularTree Grammar Nobutaka Suzuki (U. of Tsukuba) |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffe break |
| 16:15 - 17:15 |
Invited Talk Visibly Pushdown Automata for XML Madhusudan Parthasarathy (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| 17:15 - 18:30 |
Paper session: Data Modeling and Interchange Updating Views Over Recursive XML Ming Jiang, Ling Wang, Murali Mani, and Elke Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Representing data as resources in RDF and OWL Pierre-Antoine Champin (U. Claude Bernard) XML Schema Mappings in the Presence of Key Constraints and Value Dependencies Tadeusz Pankowski, Jolanta Cybulka, and Adam Meissner (Poznan U. of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz U.) |
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