| DbTalks: Spring 2006
Contact: Jie Zhao,
Shaofeng Bu
Spring 2006 DB-Talks : DB-Talks is a weekly meeting to discuss research in databases (and more
broadly data management and data mining). It is scheduled every Thursday 1:00pm-2:00pm in ICICS/CS 304. This term, the DB-Talks will still be a
mixture of discussion and presentations. 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.
Topic 1: Probabilistic Database(Please choose a paper for the discussion)
1.Fuhr, Rolleke. A Probabilistic Relational Algebra for the integration of
Information Retrieval and Database Systems. TIS, 1997. http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/590q/04wi/papers/fuhr-algebra.pdf;
2.Gradel, Gurevich, HirschThe Complexity of Query Reliability. PODS, 1998.
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/590q/04wi/papers/query-reliability.pdf;
3.Nilesh Dalvi and Dan Suciu. Efficient query evaluation on probabilistic databases. In VLDB, 2004.
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/nilesh/papers/prob-vldb04.pdf;
4.papers off of the bibliography:http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/nilesh/papers/tutorial-sigmod2005-bib.pdf
Details:
| Date |
Topics |
Leader/Presenter |
Detail |
|
Jan 17
|
Introduction to Probabilistic Database |
Rachel Pottinger, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan |
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Jan 24
|
A Probabilistic Relational Algebra for the Integration of Information Retrieval and Database Systems
|
Shaofeng Bu |
Link |
| Jan 31 |
Efficient query evaluation on probabilistic databases. Nilesh Dalvi and Dan Suciu.In VLDB, 2004. |
Xun Sun |
Link |
| Feb 07 |
OLAP Over Uncertain and Imprecise Data, VLDB05 |
Wendy Hui Wang |
Link |
| Feb 14 |
|
Reading Break. No db-talk |
Link |
| Feb 21 |
Nilesh Dalvi and Dan Suciu's "Answering Queries from Statistics and Probabilistic views" |
Jian Xu |
Link |
| Feb 28 |
Discussion about db-talk format. |
|
Link |
| Mar 07 |
Prediction Cubes, Bee Chung Chen, Lei Chen, Yi Lin, Raghu Ramakrishnan. VLDB 05 |
Mehmet Argun Alparslan |
Link |
| Mar 14 |
|
TBA |
Link |
| Mar 21 |
The Application of the Permutation Test in Genome Wide Expression Analysis ( Master Thesis Presentation) |
Timothy Chan |
Link |
| Mar 28 |
Query Caching and View Selection for XML Databases. VLDB 2005: 469-480, Bhushan Mandhani, Dan Suciu |
Discussion Panel(leader: Wendy Hui Wang) |
Link |
| Apr 04 |
The presenter will talk about her own research project. "We present a mechanism to support a mediated schema in PDMS so that
any information in the network can be queried...." |
Jie Zhao |
Link |
| Apr 11 |
Jan Hidders, Stefania Marrara, Jan Paredaens, Roel Vercammen:On the Expressive Power of XQuery Fragments. DBPL 2005: 154-168. |
Shuan Wang, Ting Wang |
Link |
| Apr 18 |
|
No DB-Talk |
Link |
| Apr 25 |
Michael Stonebraker Joseph M. Hellerstein: What Goes Around Comes Around. Readings in Database Systems, Fourth Edition Morgan Kaufmann 2005 |
Discussion Panel(leader: Terence Ho) |
Link |
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