Conference Programme (tentative)


Wendesday, July 9, 2008, Rayson Huang Theatre

 

8:45

Opening

 

9:00

Keynote talk 1: Alex Szalay. New Challenges in Petascale Scientific Databases (pdf)

 

10:00

Coffee break (Rayson Huang Theatre Foyer)

 

10:30

Session 1: Query Optimization in Scientific Databases

chair: Xiaosong Ma

 

Rainer Gemulla, Philipp Rösch and Wolfgang Lehner. Linked Bernoulli Synopses: Sampling Along Foreign Keys (pdf)

Fan Wang, Gagan Agrawal and Ruoming Jin. Query Planning for Searching Inter-Dependent Deep-web Databases
(pdf)

Graham Cormode, Philip Korn, S. Muthukrishnan and Divesh Srivastava. Summarizing Two-Dimensional Data with Skyline-based Statistical Descriptors
(pdf)

Sarvjeet Singh, Chris Mayfield, Rahul Shah, Sunil Prabhakar and Susanne Hambrusch.  Query Selectivity Estimation for Uncertain Data
(pdf)

 

12:30

Lunch break (Union Restaurant)

 

14:00

Session 2: Privacy

chair: Cyrus Shahabi

 

Onur Turgay, Thomas Brochmann Pedersen, Yucel Saygin, Erkay Savas and Albert Levi. Disclosure Risks of Distance Preserving Data Transformations (pdf)

Bharath Krishnamachari, Gabriel Ghinita and Panos Kalnis. Privacy-Preserving Publication of User Locations in the Proximity of Sensitive Sites
(pdf)

Filippo Furfaro, Giuseppe M. Mazzeo and Domenico Sacca. A Probabilistic Framework for Building Privacy-preserving Synopses of Multi-dimensional Data
(pdf)

 

15:30

Coffee break (Rayson Huang Theatre Foyer)

 

16:00

Session 3: Short Presentations

chair: Alex Labrinidis

 

Vishwakarma Singh, Arnab Bhattacharya and Ambuj K. Singh. Efficient Computation of Statistical Significance of Query Results in Databases (pdf)

Tan Apaydin, Ali Saman Tosun and Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu. Analysis of Basic Data Reordering Techniques
(pdf)

Muhammad Umer, Lars Kulik and Egemen Tanin. Kriging for Localized Spatial Interpolation in Sensor Networks


Yuehhua Lee, Alex Thomo, Kui Wu and Valerie King. Scalable Ubiquitous Data Access in Clustered Sensor Networks
(pdf)

Dhananjay Kulkarni and Chinya V. Ravishankar. iJoin: Importance-aware Join Approximation over Data Streams
(pdf)

Yuan-Ko Huang, Shi-Jei Liao and Chiang Lee. Efficient Continuous K-Nearest Neighbor Query Processing over Moving Objects with Uncertain Speed and Direction
(pdf)

Matthias Renz, Hans-Peter Kriegel and Thomas Bernecker. ProUD: Probabilistic Ranking in Uncertain Databases
(pdf)

18:00

Reception – Presentation of Posters and Demos (Rayson Huang Theatre Foyer)

 

Anne Ngu, Shawn Bowers, Nicholas Haasch, Timothy McPhilips and Terence Critchlow. Flexible Scientific Workflow Modeling Using Frames, Templates and Dynamic Embedding

Lauro Lins, David Koop, Emanuele Santos, Steve Callahan, Carlos Scheidegger, Erik Anderson, Claudio Silva and Juliana Freire. Examining Statistics of Workflow Evolution Provenance: A First Study

Elke Achtert, Hans-Peter Kriegel and Arthur Zimek. ELKI: A Software System for Evaluation of Subspace Clustering Algorithms

Christopher J. Tuot, Michael Sintek and Andreas Dengel. IVIP – A Scientific Workflow System to Support Experts in Spatial Planning of Crop Production

Keiichirou Ui, Toshiyuki Amagasa and Hiroyuki Kitagawa. A lightweight tool for integrating online meteorological data based on FUSE

Christoph Brochhaus and Thomas Seidl. IndeGS^RI : Efficient View-dependent Ranking in CFD Post-processing Queries with RDBMS

Carlos Rueda and Michael Gertz. Real-time Integration of Geospatial Raster and Point Data Streams

Kelvin T. Leung, D. Stott Parker, Alex Cunha, Cornelius Hojatkashani, Ivo Dinov and Arthur W. Toga. IRMA: an Image Registration Meta-Algorithm (Evaluating Alternative Algorithms with Multiple Metrics)

 

 

Thursday, July 10, 2008, Rayson Huang Theatre

 

9:00

Keynote talk 2: Nick Koudas. Adventures in the Blogosphere

 

10:00

Coffee break (Rayson Huang Theatre Foyer)

 

10:30

Session 4: Searching and Mining Graphs

chair: Panos Kalnis

 

Guoliang Li, Xuhui Liu, Jianhua Feng and Lizhu Zhou.  Efficient Similarity Search for Tree-Structured Data  (pdf)

Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröger, Matthias Renz and Tim Schmidt. Hierarchical Graph Embedding for Efficient Query Processing in Very Large Traffic Networks
  (pdf)

Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Bolin Ding and Yoshiharu Ishikawa. Monitoring Aggregate k-NN Objects in Road Networks
  (pdf)

Shijie Zhang and Jiong Yang.  RAM: Randomized Approximate Graph Mining
  (pdf)

 

12:30

Lunch break (Joseph’s Restaurant)

 

14:00

Session 5: Data Streams

chair: Dhananjay Kulkarni

 

Sumit Ganguly, Abhayendra Singh and Satyam Shankar. Finding frequent items over general update streams (pdf)

Ferry Tantono, Nishad Manerikar and Themis Palpanas. Efficiently Discovering Recent Frequent Items In Data Streams
(pdf)

Kostas Patroumpas and Timos Sellis. Prioritized Evaluation of Continuous Moving Queries over Streaming Locations
(pdf)

 

15:30

Coffee break (Rayson Huang Theatre Foyer)

 

16:00

Session 6: Scientific Database Applications

chair: Jeffrey Xu Yu

 

Cornelia Hedeler and Norman W. Paton.  A Comparative Evaluation of XML Difference Algorithms with Genomic Data (pdf)

Heshan Lin, Xiaosong Ma, Jiangtian Li, Ting Yu and Nagiza F Samatova. Adaptive Request Scheduling for Parallel ScientificWeb Services
(pdf)

Qinglan Li, Alexandros Labrinidis and Panos Chrysanthis.  ViP: A User-Centric View-Based Annotation Framework for Scientific Data
(pdf)

Paea LePendu, Dejing Dou, Gwen Frishkoff and Jiawei Rong. Ontology Database: a New Method for Semantic Modeling and an Application to Brainwave Data
(pdf)

19:00

Conference Banquet (Jumbo Restaurant, Aberdeen)

 

 

Friday, July 11, 2008, Rayson Huang Theatre (a.m.), T1 Meng Wah Complex (p.m.)

 

9:00

Keynote talk 3: Per Svensson. The Evolution of Vertical Database Architectures – a Historical Review (pdf)

 

10:00

Coffee break (Rayson Huang Theatre Foyer)

 

10:30

Session 7: Advanced Indexing Methods

chair: Jin Soung Yoo

 

Panfeng Zhou and Betty Salzberg.  The hB-pi* Tree: An Optimized Comprehensive Access Method for Frequent-update Multi-dimensional Point Data (pdf)

Kesheng Wu, Kurt Stockinger and Arie Shoshani.  Breaking Curse of Cardinality on Bitmap Indexes
(pdf)

Renato Bueno, Daniel dos Santos Kaster, Agma Traina and Caetano Traina.  A new approach for optimization of dynamic Metric Access Methods using an algorithm of effective deletion
(pdf)

Miguel R. Luaces, José R. Paramá, Oscar Pedreira and Diego Seco. An Ontology-based Index to Retrieve Documents with Geographic Information
(pdf)

 

12:30

Lunch break (Maxim’s Restaurant)

 

14:00

Session 8: Data Mining

chair: Bertram Ludäscher

 

Jin Soung Yoo and Shashi Shekhar.  Mining Temporal Association Patterns under a Similarity Constraint (pdf)

Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröger, Erich Schubert and Arthur Zimek.  A General Framework for Increasing the Robustness PCA-based Correlation Clustering Algorithms
(pdf)

Ken Lee, Wang-Chien Lee, Donna Peuquet and Baihua Zheng.  Searching Correlated Objects in a Long Sequence
(pdf)

 

15:30

Coffee break (T1 Meng Wah Complex open area)

 

16:00

Session 9: Advanced Queries and Uncertain Data

chair: Matthias Renz

 

Dimitris Sacharidis, Panagiotis Bouros and Timos Sellis. Caching Dynamic Skyline Queries (pdf)

Mehrdad Jahangiri and Cyrus Shahabi.
Plot Query Processing with Wavelets (pdf) (wmv)

Jinchuan Chen and Reynold Cheng. Quality-Aware Probing of Uncertain Data with Resource Constraints
(pdf)

17:30

Conference Closing