VLDB 2002 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases   Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel August 20-23, 2002 Hong Kong, China

CONFERENCE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

| Monday, 19 August | Tuesday, 20 August | Wednesday, 21 August | Thursday, 22 August | Friday, 23 August |

MONDAY, 19 AUGUST 2002

15:00-18:00 REGISTRATION [Grand Ballroom Foyer]

TUESDAY, 20 AUGUST 2002

Time Fanling Tai Po Shek-O Magnolia & Camomile Peony 08:00-08:45 BREAKFAST [Grand Ballroom Foyer] / REGISTRATION [Laurel (08:00-17:00)] 9:00-9:15 OPENING SESSION [Grand Ballroom] 09:15-10:30 Keynote 1:  Data Routing Rather than Databases: The Meaning of the Next Wave of the Web Revolution to Data Management - Adam Bosworth (BEA Systems, U.S.A.) [Grand Ballroom] 10:30-11:00 BREAK / Doctoral Posters 1 [Grand Ballroom Foyer] 11:00-13:00 Industry 1: Design for Recoverability/ Adaptability Research 1: Information Retrieval and Databases Research 2: XML Query Processing Tutorial 1: Automation in Information Extraction and Data Integration Demos 1 13:00-14:30 LUNCH / Doctoral Posters 2 [Grand Ballroom Foyer (14:00-14:30)] 14:30-16:00 Industry 2: Potpourri Research 3: Security and Privacy Research 4: Query Optimization Tutorial 2 (Part 1): Database Tuning: Principles, Experiments and Troubleshooting Techniques Demos 2 16:00-16:30 BREAK / Doctoral Posters 3 [Grand Ballroom Foyer] 16:30-18:00 Panel 1: Data Management Challenges in Very Large Enterprises Research 5: Stream Processing Research 6: XML Indexing Tutorial 2 (Part 2): Database Tuning: Principles, Experiments and Troubleshooting Techniques Demos 3 19:00-21:00 RECEPTION - Grand Ballroom, Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel (Demonstrations and Doctoral Posters will be available for viewing)

WEDNESDAY, 21 AUGUST 2002

Time Fanling Tai Po Shek-O Magnolia & Camomile Peony 08:00-08:45 BREAKFAST [Grand Ballroom Foyer] / REGISTRATION [Laurel (08:00-17:00)] 09:00-10:30 Keynote 2: Foundation Matters - Chris J. Date (Independent Consultant, U.S.A.) [Grand Ballroom] 10:30-11:00 BREAK / Doctoral Posters 2 [Grand Ballroom Foyer] 11:00-13:00 Industry 3: Native XML Support in Relational Systems Research 7: Query Processing Research 8: Analyzing Data Streams Tutorial 3: Text Search for Fine-grained Semi-structured Data Demos 4 13:00-14:30 LUNCH / Doctoral Posters 3 [Grand Ballroom Foyer (14:00-14:30)] 14:30-16:00 Industry 4: Database Applications Research 9: Web Search Engines Research 10: Storage and Indexing Tutorial 4 (Part 1): Application Servers and Associated Technologies Demos 1 16:00-16:30 BREAK / Doctoral Posters 1 [Grand Ballroom Foyer] 16:30-18:00 Panel 2: The Future Home of Data Research 11: Maintenance of Statistics Research 12: Security and Privacy 2 Tutorial 4 (Part 2): Application Servers and Associated Technologies Demos 2

THURSDAY, 22 AUGUST 2002

Time Fanling Tai Po Shek-O Magnolia & Camomile Peony 08:00-08:45 BREAKFAST [Grand Ballroom Foyer] / REGISTRATION [Laurel (08:00-17:00)] 09:00-10:30 Ten-Year Best  Paper Award:  [Grand Ballroom] Wireless Graffiti - Data, Data Everywhere - Tomasz Imielinski, Badri Nath (Rutgers University, U.S.A.)   Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering - Gerhard Weikum (University of Saarland, Germany), Axel Moenkeberg (Swiss Re, Switzerland), Christof Hasse (UBS AG, Switzerland), Peter Zabback (Microsoft Corp., U.S.A.) 10:30-11:00 BREAK / Doctoral Posters 3 [Grand Ballroom Foyer] 11:00-12:30 Industry 5: Database Engine Optimizations Research 13: Changing Web Research 14: Enterprise Data Management Tutorial 5 (Part 1): Querying and Mining Data Streams: You Only Get One Look Demos 4 12:30-14:00 LUNCH / Doctoral Posters 1 [Grand Ballroom Foyer (13:30-14:00)] 14:00-15:30 Tutorial 6 (Part 1): eBusiness Standards and Architectures Research 15: Data Transformation and Integration Research 16: Database Applications in Science Tutorial 5 (Part 2): Querying and Mining Data Streams: You Only Get One Look Demos 3 15:30-16:00 BREAK / Doctoral Posters 2 [Grand Ballroom Foyer] 16:00-17:30 Tutorial 6 (Part 2): eBusiness Standards and Architectures Industry 6: Query Processing Research 17: Data Mining Industry 7: New Applications Challenges   18:30-23:00 BANQUET - Grand Foyer, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

FRIDAY, 23 AUGUST 2002

Time Fanling Tai Po Shek-O Magnolia & Camomile 08:00-08:45 BREAKFAST [Grand Ballroom Foyer] / REGISTRATION [Grand Ballroom Foyer (08:00-13:00)] 09:00-10:30 Industry 8: Database Technology for the Web Research 18: Transactions Research 19: OLAP and Data Warehouses Tutorial 7 (Part 1): Sensor Data Mining: Similarity Search and Pattern Analysis 10:30-11:00 BREAK 11:00-13:00 Panel 3: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics - Research, Technology Transfer, or Application Development? Research 20: Summarization in Data Warehouses Research 21: Monitoring and Data Dissemination Tutorial 7 (Part 2): Sensor Data Mining: Similarity Search and Pattern Analysis 14:30-16:30 TOUR - The Hong Kong Story, Hong Kong Museum of History