XSYM 2004 PROGRAM & CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Royal York Hotel, Toronto, 29-30 August 2004

http://www.xsym.org/


SUNDAY 29 AUGUST
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14:00-15:30 Session 1: Symposium Introduction and Keynote

Building an Extensible XQuery Engine: Experiences with Galax
Mary Fernandez, AT&T Research

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Session 2: XQuery Processing

A Light but Formal Introduction to XQuery
J. Hidders and J. Paredaens

XML Query Processing using a Schema-based Numbering Scheme
D.D. Kha and M. Yoshikawa

Implementing Memoization in a Streaming XQuery Processor
Y. Diao, D. Florescu, D. Kossmann, M. Carey and M. Franklin


MONDAY 30 AUGUST
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09:00-10:30 Session 3: Searching, Ranking, and Mapping XML Documents

XQuery Processing with Relevance Ranking
L. Fegaras

Information Preservation in XML-to-Relational Mappings
D. Barbosa, J. Freire and A. Mendelzon

A Signature-Based Approach for Efficient Relationship Search on XML
Data Collections
G. Amato, F. Debole, F. Rabitti, P. Savino and P. Zezula

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 4: XML Processing

A Runtime System for XML Transformations in Java
A.S. Christensen, C. Kirkegaard and A. Møller

Teaching Relational Optimizers about XML Processing
S. Amer-Yahia, Y. Kotidis and D. Srivastava

Adjustable Transaction Isolation in XML Database Management Systems
M. Haustein and T. Härder

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:30 Session 5: XML Constraints Checking and Correcting

Correctors for XML data
M. de Rougemont and U. Boobna

Incremental Constraint Checking for XML Documents
M.A. Abrao, B. Bouchou, M.H. Ferrari, D. Laurent and M. Musicante

Conceptual Models for XML
M. Mani

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Session 6: Clustering, Indexing, Statistics

Fractional XSketch Synopses for XML Databases
N. Kreimer, N. Polyzotis, M. Garofalakis and Y. Matias

Flexible Workload-aware Clustering of XML Documents
R. Bordawekar and O. Shmueli

XIST: An XML Index Selection Tool
K. Runapongsa, J.M. Patel, R. Bordawekar and S. Padmanabhan