Time: Wednesdays, 1:30-2:30pm
Instructor: Johannes Gehrke, johannes@cs.cornell.edu,
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/johannes
Place: Systems lab, Upson Hall.
Seminar Description
We chose XML as the main topic of this semester. After the first paper, we will jump right into XML (starting 2/21). There are a few interesting papers from the recent VLDB 2000, and there are also some interesting papers that will appear in SIGMOD 2001; we can talk about a few of them towards the end of the semester.
| 2/14 | Sunita
Sarawagi: Explaining
Differences in Multidimensional Aggregates. VLDB
1999: 42-53
Talk by Sasha. |
| 2/21 | XML talk by Jeff Derstadt. Slides from Jeff. |
| 2/28 | BOOM: No seminar. |
| 3/7 | XQuery, a query language for XML:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/ (Alin
Dobra)
More material: http://www.research.att.com/~mff/files/final.html |
| 3/14 | cancelled |
| 3/21 | spring break |
| 3/28 | An introduction to the Predator System www.cs.cornell.edu/predator (Philippe Bonnet.) |
| 4/4 | XQuery continued (Alin Dobra continued from 3/28) |
| 4/11 | Tobias Mayr practice interview talk: Adaptive Query Processing in Asymmetric Environments. |
| 4/18 | Seminar cancelled |
| 4/25 | An amateur's introduction to principal component analysis, independent component analysis, and projection pursuit. |
| 5/2 | Query Optimization in Compressed Database Systems. Zhiyuan Chen, SIGMOD 2001 practice talk. |