Spring 1999

• This is the current list of the suggested papers, along with the names of people willing to lead the discussion on each one.

• Please select one by sending an email to labrinid@cs.umd.edu with your choice.

• A first-asked first-served basis will be used to solve any conflicts. In other words, if two people want to lead the discussion on the same paper, the one that has asked for it first will get to choose.

• If two people are scheduled to lead the discussion on the same day, then they have to choose the same paper (only one should send email).

• Although the papers were selected out of the VLDB 1998 conference, you are more than welcome to propose your own topic, by sending email to franklin@cs.umd.edu.

1	Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data
	by S. Abiteboul, J. McHugh, M. Rys, V. Vassalos, J. Wiener
	Discussion leader: Laura Bright
2	Low-Cost Compensation-Based Query Processing
	by Oystein Grovlen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Oystein Torbjornsen
	Discussion leader: Tolga Urhan
3	Design and Analysis of Parametric Query Optimization Algorithms
	by Sumit Ganguly
	Discussion leader: Fatma Ozcan
4	Filtering with approximate predicates
	by Narayanan Shivakumar, Hector Garcia-Molina, Chandra Chekuri
	Discussion leader: Bill Shapiro
5	RainForest - A Framework for Fast Decision Tree Construction of Large Datasets.
	by Johannes Gehrke, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Venkatesh Ganti
6	Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LHAM Log-Structured History Data Access Method.
	by Peter Muth, Patrick O'Neil, Achim Pick, Gerhard Weikum
	Discussion leader: Thomas Baby
7	Expiring Data in a Warehouse
	by Hector Garcia-Molina, Wilburt Labio, Jun Yang
	Discussion leader: Krishna Mohan Ganti
8	Mining surprising patterns using temporal description length
	by Soumen Chakrabarti, Sunita Sarawagi, Byron Dom