29. VLDB 2003: Berlin, Germany

Keynotes

• A Nanotechnology-based Approach to Data Storage
  Evangelos Eleftheriou (IBM Research, Switzerland)
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• Integrating Information for On Demand Computing
  Nelson Mattos (IBM, SVL Laboratory, USA)
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• The Data-Centric Revolution in Networking
  Scott Shenker (ICSI, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
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Ten-Year Best Paper Award

• The History of Histograms (abridged)
  Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens, Greece)
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Research Sessions

• Complex Queries over Web Repositories
  Sriram Raghavan, Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University, USA)
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• XSEarch: A Semantic Search Engine for XML
  Sara Cohen, Jonathan Mamou, Yaron Kanza, Yehoshua Sagiv (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
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• An Efficient and Resilient Approach to Filtering and Disseminating Streaming Data
  Shetal Shah, Shyamshankar Dharmarajan, Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
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• Efficient Mining of XML Query Patterns for Caching
  Liang Huai Yang, Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
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• A Framework for Clustering Evolving Data Streams
  Charu C. Aggarwal (IBM T. J. Watson Resch. Ctr., USA), Jiawei Han, Jianyong Wang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Philip S. Yu (IBM T. J. Watson Resch. Ctr., USA)
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• A Regression-Based Temporal Pattern Mining Scheme for Data Streams
  Wei-Guang Teng, Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Philip S. Yu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
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• On the Costs of Multilingualism in Database Systems
  A. Kumaran, Jayant R. Haritsa (Indian Institute of Science, India)
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• Distributed Top-N Query Processing with Possibly Uncooperative Local Systems
  Clement Yu, George Philip (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Weiyi Meng (State University New York, USA)
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• Optimized Query Execution in Large Search Engines with Global Page Ordering
  Xiaohui Long, Torsten Suel (Polytechnic University, USA)
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• Path Queries on Compressed XML
  Peter Buneman, Martin Grohe, Christoph Koch (University of Edinburgh, UK)
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• On the minimization of Xpath queries
  S. Flesca, F. Furfaro (Università della Calabria, Italy), E. Masciari (ICAR - CNR, Italy)
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• Covering Indexes for XML Queries: Bisimulation - Simulation = Negation
  Prakash Ramanan (Wichita State University, USA)
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• Phrase Matching in XML
  Sihem Amer-Yahia, Mary Fernández, Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research, USA), Yu Xu (University of California, San Diego, USA)
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• RRXS: Redundancy reducing XML storage in relations
  Yi Chen, Susan Davidson (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Carmem Hara (Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil), Yifeng Zheng (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
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• MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage
  Alin Deutsch (University of California, San Diego, USA), Val Tannen (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
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• Projecting XML Documents
  Amélie Marian (Columbia University, USA), Jérôme Siméon (Bell Laboratories, USA)
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• Mixed Mode XML Query Processing
  Alan Halverson, Josef Burger, Leonidas Galanis, Ameet Kini, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Ajith Nagaraja Rao, Feng Tian, Stratis D. Viglas, Yuan Wang, Jeffrey F. Naughton, David J. DeWitt (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
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• From Tree Patterns to Generalized Tree Patterns: On Efficient Evaluation of XQuery
  Zhimin Chen (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada), H.V. Jagadish (Univ. of Michigan, USA) , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada), Stelios Paparizos (Univ. of Michigan, USA)
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• Efficient Processing of Expressive Node-Selecting Queries on XML Data in Secondary Storage: A Tree Automata-based Approach
  Christoph Koch (University of Edinburgh, UK)
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• Query Processing for High-Volume XML Message Brokering
  Yanlei Diao, Michael Franklin (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
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• Holistic Twig Joins on Indexed XML Documents
  Haifeng Jiang, Wei Wang, Hongjun Lu (The Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China), Jeffrey Xu Yu (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China)
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• Maximizing the Output Rate of Multi-Way Join Queries over Streaming Information Sources
  Stratis D. Viglas, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Josef Burger (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
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• Scheduling for shared window joins over data streams
  Moustafa A. Hammad (Purdue University, USA), Michael J. Franklin (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (Purdue University, USA)
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• Load Shedding in a Data Stream Manager
  Nesime Tatbul, Ugur Çetintemel, Stan Zdonik (Brown University, USA), Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis University, USA), Michael Stonebraker (M.I.T., USA)
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• Querying the Internet with PIER
  Ryan Huebsch, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Nick Lanham, Boon Thau Loo (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Scott Shenker (International Computer Science Institute, USA), Ion Stoica (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
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• Tuple Routing Strategies for Distributed Eddies
  Feng Tian, David J. DeWitt (University of Wisconsin, USA)
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• AQuery: Query Language for Ordered Data, Optimization Techniques, and Experiments
  Alberto Lerner (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Telecommunications, France), Dennis Shasha (New York University, USA)
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• WISE-Integrator: An Automatic Integrator of Web Search Interfaces for E-Commerce
  Hai He, Weiyi Meng (SUNY at Binghamton, USA), Clement Yu (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA), Zonghuan Wu (Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
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• SASH: A Self-Adaptive Histogram Set for Dynamically Changing Workloads
  Lipyeow Lim (Duke University, USA), Min Wang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA), Jeffrey Scott Vitter (Purdue University, USA)
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• VIPAS: Virtual Link Powered Authority Search in the Web
  Chi-Chun Lin, Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
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• Balancing Performance and Data Freshness in Web Database Servers
  Alexandros Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Nick Roussopoulos (University of Maryland, USA)
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• Buffering Accesses to Memory-Resident Index Structures
  Jingren Zhou, Kenneth A. Ross (Columbia University, USA)
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• Data Morphing: An Adaptive, Cache-Conscious Storage Technique
  Richard A. Hankins, Jignesh M. Patel (University of Michigan, USA)
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• COMBI-Operator: Database Support for Data Mining Applications
  Alexander Hinneburg, Dirk Habich (Martin-Luther-University of Halle, Germany), Wolfgang Lehner (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
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• A Shrinking-Based Approach for Multi-Dimensional Data Analysis
  Yong Shi, Yuqing Song, Aidong Zhang (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
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• Data Bubbles for Non-Vector Data: Speeding-up Hierarchical Clustering in Arbitrary Metric Spaces
  Jianjun Zhou, Jörg Sander (University of Alberta, Canada)
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• Finding Hierarchical Heavy Hitters in Data Streams
  Graham Cormode (Rutgers University, USA), Flip Korn, S. Muthukrishnan, Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)
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• Star-Cubing: Computing Iceberg Cubes by Top-Down and Bottom-Up Integration
  Dong Xin, Jiawei Han, Xiaolei Li, Benjamin W. Wah (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
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• Coarse-Grained Optimization: Techniques for Rewriting SQL Statement Sequences
  Tobias Kraft, Holger Schwarz, Ralf Rantzau, Bernhard Mitschang (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
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• Processing Sliding Window Multi-Joins in Continuous Queries over Data Streams
  Lukasz Golab, M. Tamer Özsu (University of Waterloo, Canada)
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• Continuous K-Nearest Neighbor Queries for Continuously Moving Points with Updates
  Glenn S. Iwerks (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Hanan Samet (University of Maryland at College Park, USA), Ken Smith (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
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• Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps
  Torsten Grust (University of Konstanz, Germany), Maurice van Keulen (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Jens Teubner (University of Konstanz, Germany)
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• Checks and Balances: Monitoring Data Quality Problems in Network Traffic Databases
  Flip Korn (AT&T Labs-Research, USA), S. Muthukrishnan (Rutgers University, USA), Yunyue Zhu (New York University, USA)
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• Systematic Development of Data Mining-Based Data Quality Tools
  Dominik Luebbers (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Udo Grimmer (DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany), Matthias Jarke (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
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• Adaptive, Hands-Off Stream Mining
  Spiros Papadimitriou, Anthony Brockwell, Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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• Composing Mappings Among Data Sources
  Jayant Madhavan, Alon Y. Halevy (University of Washington, USA)
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• Mapping Adaptation under Evolving Schemas
  Yannis Velegrakis, Renée J. Miller (University of Toronto, Canada), Lucian Popa (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
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• Locking Protocols for Materialized Aggregate Join Views
  Gang Luo, Jeffrey F. Naughton (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Curt J. Ellmann, Michael W. Watzke (NCR Advance Development Lab, USA)
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• Supporting Frequent Updates in R-Trees: A Bottom-Up Approach
  Mong Li Lee, Wynne Hsu (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Bin Cui, Keng Lik Teo (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
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• The ND-Tree: A Dynamic Indexing Technique for Multidimensional Non-ordered Discrete Data Spaces
  Gang Qian (Michigan State University, USA), Qiang Zhu (The University of Michigan, USA), Qiang Xue, Sakti Pramanik (Michigan State University, USA)
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• Temporal Slicing in the Evaluation of XML Queries
  Dengfeng Gao, Richard T. Snodgrass (University of Arizona, USA)
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• The Generalized Pre-Grouping Transformation: Aggregate-Query Optimization in the Presence of Dependencies
  Aris Tsois, Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
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• Estimating the Output Cardinality of Partial Preaggregation with a Measure of Clusteredness
  Sven Helmer, Thomas Neumann, Guido Moerkotte (University of Mannheim, Germany)
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• BHUNT: Automatic Discovery of Fuzzy Algebraic Constraints in Relational Data
  Paul G. Brown, Peter J. Haas (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
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• Tabular Placement of Relational Data on MEMS-based Storage Devices
  Hailing Yu, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi (University of California,Santa Barbara, USA)
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• Memory Requirements for Query Execution in Highly Constrained Devices
  Nicolas Anciaux (PRISM Laboratory, France), Luc Bouganim (INRIA, France), Philippe Pucheral (PRISM Laboratory, France)
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• Lachesis: Robust Database Storage Management Based on Device-specific Performance Characteristics
  Jiri Schindler, Anastassia Ailamaki, Gregory R. Ganger (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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• Cache Tables: Paving the Way for an Adaptive Database Cache
  Mehmet Altinel, Christof Bornhövd (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA), Sailesh Krishnamurthy (University of California, Berkeley), C. Mohan, Hamid Pirahesh, Berthold Reinwald (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
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• Primitives for Workload Summarization and Implications for SQL
  Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA), Prasanna Ganesan (Stanford University, Paolo Alto, USA),Vivek Narasayya (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA)
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• A Dependability Benchmark for OLTP Application Environments
  Marco Vieira (Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal), Henrique Madeira (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
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• Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases
  Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (Purdue University, USA)
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• AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions
  Arvind Hulgeri, S. Sudarshan (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)
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• Efficient Approximation of Optimization Queries Under Parametric Aggregation Constraints
  Sudipto Guha (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of California, Riverside, USA), Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research, USA), Michail Vlachos (University of California, Riverside, USA)
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• The TPR*-Tree: An Optimized Spatio-Temporal Access Method for Predictive Queries
  Yufei Tao (City University of Hong Kong, China), Dimitris Papadias, Jimeng Sun (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
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• Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases
  Dimitris Papadias, Jun Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China), Nikos Mamoulis (University of Hong Kong, China), Yufei Tao (City University of Hong Kong, China)
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• Multiscale Histograms: Summarizing Topological Relations in Large Spatial Datasets
  Xuemin Lin, Qing Liu, Yidong Yuan (University of NSW, Australia), Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)
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• Avoiding Sorting and Grouping In Processing Queries
  Xiaoyu Wang, Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis University, USA)
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• Operator Scheduling in a Data Stream Manager
  Don Carney, Ugur Çetintemel, Alex Rasin, Stan Zdonik (Brown University, USA), Mitch Cherniack(Brandeis University, USA), Michael Stonebraker (M.I.T., USA)
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• Efficient IR-Style Keyword Search over Relational Databases
  Vagelis Hristidis (University of California, San Diego, USA), Luis Gravano (Columbia University, USA), Yannis Papakonstantinou (University of California, San Diego, USA)
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• Merging Models Based on Given Correspondences
  Rachel A. Pottinger (University of Washington, USA), Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft Research, USA)
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• Locating Data Sources in Large Distributed Systems
  Leonidas Galanis, Yuan Wang, Shawn R. Jeffery, David J. DeWitt (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)
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• Robust Estimation With Sampling and Approximate Pre-Aggregation
  Christopher Jermaine (University of Florida, USA)
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• Controlling Access to Published Data Using Cryptography
  Gerome Miklau, Dan Suciu (University of Washington, USA)
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• OASIS: An Online and Accurate Technique for Local-alignment Searches on Biological Sequences
  Colin Meek, Jignesh M. Patel, Shruti Kasetty (University of Michigan, USA)
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• Privacy-Preserving Indexing of Documents on the Network
  Mayank Bawa (Stanford University, USA), Roberto J. Bayardo Jr., Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
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Industrial Sessions

• Data Compression in Oracle
  Meikel Poess, Dmitry Potapov (Oracle Corporation, USA)
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• Improving Performance with Bulk-Inserts in Oracle R-Trees
  Ning An, Ravi Kanth V Kothuri, Siva Ravada (Oracle Corporation, USA)
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• Statistics on Views
  César A. Galindo-Legaria, Milind M. Joshi, Florian Waas, Ming-Chuan Wu (Microsoft Corp., USA)
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• Efficient Query Processing for Multi-Dimensionally Clustered Tables in DB2
  Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Sriram Padmanabhan, Timothy Malkemus (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA), Tony Lai, Leslie Cranston, Matthew Huras (IBM Toronto Laboratories, USA)
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• A Platform Based on the Multi-dimensional Data Model for Analysis of Bio-Molecular Structures
  Srinath Srinivasa (Indian Institute of Information Technologie, India), Sujit Kumar (C L Infotech Pvt. Ltd, India)
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• Capturing Global Transactions from Multiple Recovery Log Files in a Partitioned Database System
  Chengfei Liu (University of South Australia, Australia), Bruce G. Lindsay (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA), Serge Bourbonnais, Elizabeth B. Hamel, Tuong C. Truong (IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory, USA), Jens Stankiewitz (Viterra Informationssysteme GmbH, Germany)
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• The BEA/XQRL Streaming XQuery Processor
  Daniela Florescu, Chris Hillery, Donald Kossmann, Paul Lucas, Fabio Riccardi, Till Westmann, Michael J. Carey, Arvind Sundararajan (BEA Systems, USA), Geetika Agrawal (Stanford University, USA)
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• XML Schemas in Oracle XML DB
  Ravi Murthy, Sandeepan Banerjee (Oracle Corporation, USA)
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• Integrated Data Management for Mobile Services in the Real World
  C. Hage (Euman A/S, Denmark), C. S. Jensen, T. B. Pedersen, L. Speicys, I. Timko (Aalborg University, Denmark)
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• Web-Services and unified messaging in an Investment Banking environment
  Andrew Weir (Deutsche Bank, Germany)
  
• Foundations of Transactions for the Internet
  Johannes Klein (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
  
• Using WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction to Ensure the Consistency of B2B Interactions
  Dean Kuo and Paul Greenfield (CSIRO University of Sidney, Australia)
  

• Open Grid Services Architecture
  Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
  
• Distributed Data Management in the GRID
  Alexander Reinefeld (Zuse Institute, Germany)
  
• Grid Services for e-Science
  Norman Paton (Univ. of Manchester, UK)
  

• The Zero-Delay Data Warehouse: Mobilizing Heterogeneous Databases
  Eva Kühn (TECCO AG, Austria)
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• Tamino & Co. - Software AG's Database Technology
  Martin Meijsen (Software AG, Germany)
  

Panels

• A Database Striptease or How to Manage Your Personal Databases
  Session Chair: Martin Kersten (CWI, Netherlands)
  Panelists: Gerhard Weikum (Univ. Saarland, Germany), Michael Franklin (U.C. Berkeley , USA), Daniel Keim (Univ. Konstanz, Germany), Alex Buchmann (T.U. Darmstadt, Germany), Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft Research, USA)
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• Who needs XML Databases?
  Session Chair: Sophie Cluet (INRIA, France)
  Panelists: Nelson Mattos (IBM SVL, USA), Harald Schöning (Software AG, Germany), Guido Moerkotte (Universität Mannheim, Germany), Amir Milo (Xyleme, France), David DeWitt (University of Wisconsin, USA), Ravi Murthy (Oracle, USA)
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• Illuminating the Dark Side of Web Services
  Session Chair: Michael L. Brodie (Verizon, USA)
  Panelists: Frank Leymann (IBM Entwicklung GmbH, Germany), Christoph Bussler (Digital Research Institute, Ireland)
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Demo Sessions

• Xcerpt and visXcerpt: From Pattern-Based to Visual Querying of XML and Semistructured Data
  Sascha Berger, François Bry, Sebastian Schaffert, Christoph Wieser (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
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• OrientStore: A Schema Based Native XML Storage System
  Xiaofeng Meng, Daofeng Luo (Renmin University of China, China), Mong Li Lee, Jing An (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
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• Managing Distributed Workspaces with Active XML
  Serge Abiteboul, Jérôme Baumgarten, Angela Bonifati, Grégory Cobéna, Cosmin Cremarenco, Florin Dragan, Ioana Manolescu, Tova Milo, Nicoleta Preda (INRIA, France)
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• XQueC: Pushing Queries to Compressed XML Data
  Andrei Arion (INRIA, France), Angela Bonifati, Gianni Costa (IcarCNR, Italy), Sandra D'Aguanno, Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, France), Andrea Pugliese (Università della Calabria, Italy)
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• A System for Keyword Proximity Search on XML Databases
  Andrey Balmin, Vagelis Hristidis (University of California, San Diego, USA), Nick Koudas (AT&T Labs-Research, USA), Yannis Papakonstantinou (University of California, San Diego, USA), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research, USA), Tianqiu Wang (University of California, San Diego, USA)
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• XISS/R: XML Indexing and Storage System Using RDBMS*
  Philip J Harding, Quanzhong Li, Bongki Moon (University of Arizona, USA)
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• Implementing XQuery 1.0: The Galax Experience
  Mary Fernández (AT&T Labs, USA), Jérôme Siméon (Bell Laboratories, USA), Byron Choi (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Amélie Marian (Columbia University, USA), Gargi Sur (University of Florida, USA)
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• XQuery Optimization (PhD Poster)
  Philippe Michiels (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
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• Web Service Composition with O'GRAPE and OSIRIS
  Roger Weber, Christoph Schuler, Patrick Neukomm, Heiko Schuldt, Hans-J. Schek (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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• Chameleon: an Extensible and Customizable Tool for Web Data Translation
  Riccardo Torlone, Paolo Atzeni (Università Roma Tre, Italy)
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• NexusScout: An Advanced Location-Based Application on a Distributed, Open Mediation Platform
  Daniela Nicklas, Matthias Grossmann, Thomas Schwarz (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
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• Schema-driven Customization of Web Services
  S. Abiteboul (INRIA, France), B. Amann (Cedric-CNAM, France), J. Baumgarten, O. Benjelloun, F. Dang Ngoc, T. Milo (INRIA, France)
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• BibFinder/StatMiner: Effectively Mining and Using Coverage and Overlap Statistics in Data Integration
  Zaiqing Nie, Subbarao Kambhampati and Thomas Hernandez (Arizona State University, USA)
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• S-ToPSS: Semantic Toronto Publish/Subscribe System
  Milenko Petrovic, Ioana Burcea, Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto, Canada)
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• From Focused Crawling to Expert Information: an Application Framework for Web Exploration and Portal Generation
  Sergej Sizov, Jens Graupmann, Martin Theobald (University of the Saarland, Germany)
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• CachePortal II: Acceleration of Very Large Scale Data Center-Hosted Database-driven Web Applications
  Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Selçuk Candan, Divyakant Agrawal, Yusuf Akca, Kunihiro Taniguchi (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA)
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• Consistency Based Snapshot Management in Data Grids (PhD Poster)
  Lutz Schlesinger (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
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• Adaptive Distributed Query Processing (PhD Poster)
  Yongluan Zhou (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
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• ATLAS: a Small but Complete SQL Extension for Data Mining and Data Streams
  Haixun Wang (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA), Carlo Zaniolo, Chang Richard Luo (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
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• Business Modeling Using SQL Spreadsheets
  Andrew Witkowski, Srikanth Bellamkonda, Tolga Bozkaya, Nathan Folkert, Abhinav Gupta, Lei Sheng, Sankar Subramanian (Oracle Corporation, USA)
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• An Interpolated Volume Data Model
  Tianqiu Wang, Simone Santini, Amarnath Gupta (University of California, San Diego, USA)
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• Efficacious Data Cube Exploration by Semantic Summarization and Compression
  Laks V.S. Ladshmanan (University of British Columbia, Canada), Jian Pei (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA), Yan Zhao (University of British Columbia, Canada)
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• QUIET: Continuous Query-driven Index Tuning
  Kai-Uwe Sattler, Ingolf Geist, Eike Schallehn (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
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• Chip-Secured Data Access: Reconciling Access Rights with Data Encryption
  Luc Bouganim, François Dang Ngoc (INRIA, France), Philippe Pucheral, Lilan Wu (PRISM, France)
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• IrisNet: An Architecture for Internet-scale Sensing Services
  Suman Nath (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Amol Deshpande (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Yan Ke (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp (Intel Research Pittsburgh, USA), Srinivasan Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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• Large-Scale, Standards-Based Earth Observation Imagery and Web Mapping Services
  Peter Baumann (rasdaman GmbH, Germany)
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• Matching Database Access Patterns to Storage Characteristics (PhD Poster)
  Jiri Schindler (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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• Inference and Prediction of Uncertain Events in Active Systems: A Language and Execution Model (PhD Poster)
  Segev Wasserkrug (IBM Research Lab Haifa, Israel)
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Tutorials

• Privacy-Enhanced Data Management for Next-Generation e-Commerce
  Chris Clifton (Purdue University, USA), Irini Fundulaki, Richard Hull, Bharat Kumar, Daniel Lieuwen, Arnaud Sahuguet (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA)
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• The Semantic Web: Semantics for Data on the Web
  Stefan Decker (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA),Vipul Kashyap (LHNCBC, US National Library of Medicine, USA)
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• Data Stream Query Processing: A Tutorial
  Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)
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• Grid Data Management Systems & Services
  Arun Jagatheesan, Reagan Moore (University of California, San Diego, USA), Norman W. Paton (University of Manchester, UK), Paul Watson (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)
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• Constructing and integrating data-centric Web applications: methods, tools, and techniques
  Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, France)
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