demos

Presentations

Opening Ceremonies | Keynote Address | 10-Year Paper Award | Invited Industrial Talk

Panels | Industrial and Domain Sessions

Opening Ceremonies

The VLDB2000 Technical Program, Michael L. Brodie, Verizon Laboratories

Keynote Address

Biodiversity Informatics: The Challenge of Rapid Development, Large Databases, and Complex Data, Ebbe S. Nielsen, Director, Austrailian National Insect Collection

10-Year Paper Award

Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Success Stories and Lingering Issues, Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano; Robert Cochrane, IBM; and Jennifer Widom, Stanford University

Invited Industrial Talk

Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore: On Transitioning from Research to the Real World, Michael Carey, Propel, USA

Panels

Social, Educational, and Governmental Change Enabled Through Technology
Chair: Krithi Ramamritham

Carlo Batini, Authority for Information Systems in Public Administration, Italy
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA
Yahia El Atfy, National Database, Egypt
D. B. Phatak, School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay, India

A 20/20 Vision of the VLDB2000
Chair: Mishah Deen

Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Erich J. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany
Gio Wiederhold, Stanford University, USA

Is Generic Metadata Management Feasible?
Chair: Philip A. Bernstein

Laura Haas, IBM Research, USA
Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen and GMD-FIT, Germany
Erhard Rahm, Universit of Leipzig, Germany
Gio Wiederhold, Stanford University, USA

Future Directions of Database Research—The VLDB Broadening Strategy, Parts 1 and 2
Moderator: John Mylopoulos

Michael L. Brodie, Verizon, USA (VLDB Stats)
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
Hans-Jörge Schek, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland

Industrial and Domain Sessions

Groupware and Workflow
Chair: Umeshwar Dayal

Evolution of Groupware for Business Applications: A Database Perspective on Lotus Domino/Notes, C. Mohan, R. Barber, S. Watts, A. Somani, M. Zaharioudakis
Process Automation as the Foundation for E-commerce, Fabio Casati, Ming-Chien Shan
Media360 Workflow—Implementing a Workflow Engine Inside a Database, Carsten Blecken

E-business
Chair: Ming-Chen Shan

Asera: Extranet Architecture for B2B Solutions, Anil Nori
Linking Business to Deliver Value: A Challenge for Data Management, Anand Deshpande
E-Speak: An Architecture and Open Source Implementation for Collaborative E-Services, Fabio Casati

High-Performance Data Management
Chair: C. Mohan

An Ultra Highly Available DBMS, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Svein Eric Bratsberg, Øystein Torbjørnsen
The Zero Latency Enterprise, Frans Jongma
High-Performance and Scalability Through Application Tier In-Memory Data Management, The Times Ten Team

Applications
Chair: Tamer Ozsu

A Database Platform for Bioinformatics, Sandeepan Banerjee
Data Mining in the Bioinformatics Domain, Shalom Tsur
Controlling Data Warehouses with Knowledge Networks, Elvira Schaefer, Jan-Dirk Becker, Matthias Jarke

Data Warehousing and Data Mining
Chair: Qiming Chen

Integration of Data Mining with Database Technology, Amir Netz, Surajit Chaudhuri, Jeff Bernhardt, Usama Fayyad
E.piphany Epicenter Technology Overview, Sridhar RamaswamyVIDS (Former BAIMS)
Concurrency in the Data Warehouse, Richard Taylor

Domain Session: Biodiversity Informatics
Chair: Judy Cushing

Work Practices and Technologies of the Biodiversity Enterprise, Geoffrey Bowker
Next-Generation Bioinformatics Research Challenges, John Schnase, Judy Cushing
Political and Economic Perspective on Biodiversity Informatics, Gladys A. Cotter, Barbara T. Bauldock