The Friday Afternoon DB Talks
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC

Here is the schedule for Fall 2001. Send mail to laks@cs.ubc.ca if you would like to go on/off the mailing list.

When: Fridays 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Where: CICSR Rm. 202.

E-commerce Systems -- A Case Study

Date	Topic	Moderator	References
October 26	Semi-structured Data	Laks	S. Abiteboul ICDT'97 &
	and XML		D. Suciu SIGMOD Record,
			June'01
November 2	Algebra for XML	Laks	H.V. Jagadish et al.
			The TAX paper, DBPL'01
November 9	Latent Semantic Indexing	Nando	Landauer LSI paper
November 16	Page Rank stuff	Nando	S. Brin et al.,
			The google paper
November 23	Challenges in Building Next Generation	Subbu N. Subramanian	Abstract
	e-Commerce Systems -- A Case Study	(invited speaker)	Bio
November 30	What is This Page Known for?	Davood Rafiei	Abstract
	Computing Web Page Reputations	(invited speaker)	Bio
December 7	Querying images	Raymond	The QBIC paper
December 14	...	...	...

References

Semi-structured Data and XML

1. S. Abiteboul, ICDT'97 .

2. D. Suciu, SIGMOD Record June'01 .

XML algebra

3. H.V. Jagadish et al., The TAX Paper, DBPL'01 .

LSI

4. Scott Deerwester, Susan T. Dumais, George W. Furnas, Thomas K. Landauer, Richard Harshman, Indexing by Latent Semantic Analysis, Journal of the American Society of Information Science (1990).

GOOGLE

5. Larry Page, Sergey Brin, R. Motwani, T. Winograd, The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web (1998).

Probabilistic LSI

6. Kobus Barnard and David Forsyth Learning the Semantics of Words and Pictures, International Conference on Computer Vision, vol 2, pp. 408-415, 2001.

7. Nando de Freitas and Kobus Barnard. Bayesian Latent Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Databases. UBC TR-2001-15.