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DB Talks: Winter Term 1, 2008 (September - December)

Contact: Byung-Won On

Winter 2008 DB-Talks : DB-Talks is a weekly meeting to discuss research in databases (and more broadly data management and data mining). It is currently scheduled every Thursday 2:00pm-3:00pm in ICICS/CS 304 (subject to change). The papers to be discussed or presented will be posted/updated in this page. We welcome everyone interested in database-related area come and join our discussion.

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Topics:

1) Data Provenance
2) Schema Mapping and Warehousing
3) Social Networking Mining

Paper List

Details:

Time	Content	Presenter	Files
Sep. 18	My Summer at Google by Michael Lawrence My Internship in the DMX group at Microsoft by Hongrae Lee Internship experience in Yahoo! by Amit Goyal	Michael Lawrence, Hongrae Lee, Amit Goyal
Sept. 25	Provenance in Databases: Past, Current, Future (SIGMOD'07 tutorial by Peter Buneman and Wang-Chiew Tan)	Solmaz Kolahi
Oct. 2	Provenance in Databases: Past, Current, Future (SIGMOD'07 tutorial by Peter Buneman and Wang-Chiew Tan)	Solmaz Kolahi
Oct. 9	Extracting Leaders from Community Actions	Amit Goyal	Paper
Oct. 16	Meeting with Alon Halevy @ Google
Oct. 23	Top-k algorith m (TA) and its variations	Jian Xu	Slide
Oct. 30	DB Lab Hallowe'en Carve Off (Location: DB Lab)	April Webster
Nov. 6	DB Lab Web Issues	Raymond Ng
Nov. 13	On the Expressiveness of Implicit Provenance in Query and Update Languages	Roman Yarovoy	Paper
Nov. 20	Efficient Provenance Storage	Hongrae Lee
Nov. 27	Curated Databases	Mike Lawrence	paper
Dec. 11	Community Detection: Overview	Byung-Won On
Dec. 18	feature selection techniques/fuzzy classifiers	Mohammad Tajer

Last Update: October 24, 2005