Fall 2004

Time/Place: Thursdays, 12:30-1:45, AVW 4185

This is a once-a-week discussion/reading group for students, faculty and staff who are interested in examining current and emerging topics of interest in the database area and related research in information systems and networking. Example topical areas include:

  1. Approximation & Compression
    1. Stream Processing Using Sketches
    2. Optimizing for Different Error Metrics
  2. Biological or Bio-molecular Databases and Biological Computation
    1. Applications & Existing Techniques
    2. Suffix Trees
  3. Data Integration
    1. Mapping among Schemata
    2. Query Rewriting
  4. Data Mining
    1. Similarities, Interesting Rule Groups
    2. Heavy Hitters
    3. Schema Discovery
    4. Link Analysis & Linked-Based Ranking
  5. Data Streams
    1. Management
    2. Query Processing
  6. Data Warehousing, OLAP
    1. Computing High-Dimensional Data Cubes
  7. Peer-to-Peer Systems
    1. Existing Systems & Classification
    2. Search Techniques
  8. Sensor Databases
    1. Organization, configuration & applications
    2. Continuous Aggregate (exact & approximate) Queries
    3. Representation of Knowledge
  9. Spatio-Temporal Systems
    1. Indexing
    2. Prediction
    3. Continuous Queries
    4. Nearest Neighbor Queries
  10. XML
    1. Query Efficiency/Optimization
    2. Indexes and Incremental Maintenance
    3. Full Text Queries
    4. Approximate XML Query Answers
    5. Publish/Subscribe Systems
    6. Streaming XML processing

All registered participants will be required to present and lead the class discussion (on one or more papers of your choice) at least once during the semester. PDF versions of the presented papers must be sent to adeli at umiacs.umd.edu at least one week prior to the presentation, so that they can be posted on the web page. In addition, all attendees are expected to read the papers and participate actively in the discussions. On special request, students who are advanced in their research will also be able to present their own work for critical feedback.

We will plan a tentative set of topics / reading list and order of presentation in the first meeting on September 9.

While DBChat is targeted at graduate students seniors in computer science with a reasonably extensive background in DBMS, other graduate students are also encouraged to attend.

Feel free to send any questions you have to adeli at umiacs.umd.edu.

For more information on this and other happenings in the DB group, you can subscribe to the dbchat mailing list by sending a short message to dbchat-request at cs.umd.edu. You can also check out the dbchat web page at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/db/dbchat.html.

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