(DBWORLD) Workshop on Management of Semistructured Data -- Program

Dan Suciu (suciu@research.att.com)
Tue, 8 Apr 1997 10:06:21 -0500 (CDT)

(see also http://www.research.att.com/~suciu/workshop-announcement.html)

WORKSHOP ON MANAGEMENT OF SEMISTRUCTURED DATA
In conjunction with PODS/SIGMOD

Friday, May 16, 1997
8:30am - 6:00pm

Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona
(Salon B)

PROGRAM

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8:30 - 9:30 Session 1 -- Semistructured data and the Web (1)
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Semistructured and Structured Data in the Web: Going Back and Forth
P. Atzeni, G. Mecca, and P. Merialdo - 30'

Wrapper Generation for Semi-structured Internet Sources
N. Ashish and C. Knoblock - 30'

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9:30 - 10:00 Coffee break
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10:00 - 11:00 Session 2 -- Semistructured data and the Web (2)
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Extracting Semistructured Information from the Web
J. Hammer, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Cho, R. Aranha, and A. Crespo - 20'

A Query Language and Processor for a Web-Site Management System
M. Fernandez, D. Florescu, A. Levy, and D. Suciu - 20'

RAW: A Relational Algebra for the Web
T. Fiebig, J. Weiss, and G. Moerkotte - 20'

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11:00 - 12:00 Panel 1
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How much structure is semi-structure ? Defining the topic.

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12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
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1:30 - 2:30 Session 3 -- Finding structure in semistructured data (1)
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Inferring Structure in Semistructured Data
S. Nestorov, S. Abiteboul, and R. Motwani - 30'

Extracting Entity Profiles from Semi-structured Information Spaces
R. Nado and S. Huffman - 30'

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2:30 - 3:30 Session 4 -- Finding structure in semistructured data (2)
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Discovery of Schema Information from a Forest of Selectively
Labeled Ordered Trees
D. Seo, D. Lee, K. Lee, and J. Lee - 20'

Information Extraction for Semi-structured Documents
D. Smith and M. Lopez - 20'

Modeling and Querying Textual Data using E-R models and SQL
V. Kashyap and M. Rusinkiewicz - 20'

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3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break
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4:00 - 5:00 Session 5 -- Management systems for semi-structured data
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Integrating Dynamically-Fetched External Information into a DBMS
for Semistructured Data
J. McHugh and J. Widom - 20'

Views for Semistructured Data
S. Abiteboul, R. Goldman, J. McHugh, V. Vassalos, and Y. Zhuge - 20'

Integration of Semistructured Data Using Outer Joins
K. Munakata - 20'

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5:00 - 6:00 Panel 2
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Semi-structured data: useful or harmful ?

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Registration will take place at PODS/SIGMOD. There will be no
registration fee, but if you plan to participate we ask you that you
send a note to Dan Suciu, <a href="mailto:suciu@research.att.com">
suciu@research.att.com </a>: if you haven't done this yet, please do
it as early as possible.

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