CS732: Topics in Database Systems

CS732 is a seminar course in database systems. We will discuss recent research papers in the following two areas: (1) integration of database systems and information retrieval systems, (2) peer-to-peer databases.

Instructor

Office: 4105A Upson Hall
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Location and Hours

Course Schedule

Date

Paper Presenter
January 22 Introduction Jai
January 27 S. Dessloch, N. Mattos, "Integrating SQL Databases with Content-Specific Search Engines", VLDB 1997. Jai
January 31 N. Fuhr, T. Rolleke, "A Probabilistic Relational Algebra for the Integration of Information Retrieval and Database Systems", ACM TOIS 15(1), 1997. Chavdar
February 7 V. Hristidis, Y. Papakonstantinou, "DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases", VLDB 2002. Lin
February 14 D. Florescu, D. Kossmann, I. Manolescu, "Integrating Keyword Search into XML Query Processing", WWW 2000. Pavel
February 21 V. Hristidis, Y. Papakonstantinou, A. Balmin, "Keyword Proximity Search on XML Graphs", ICDE 2003. Feng
February 28 N. Fuhr, K. Grobjohann, "XIRQL: A Language for Information Retrieval in XML Documents", SIGIR 2001. Yong
March 7 N. Bruno, S. Chaudhuri, L. Gravano, "Top-k Selection Queries over Relational Databases: Mapping Strategies and Performance Evaluation", ACM TODS 27(2), 2002. Prakash
March 14 E. Agichtein, L. Gravano, "Snowball: Extracting Relations from Large Plain-text Collections", ACM DL, 2000. Ashwin
March 21 Spring break - no class  
March 28 A. Halevy, O. Etzioni, A. Doan, Z. Ives, J. Madhavan, L. McDowell, I. Tatarinov, "Crossing the Structure Chasm", CIDR 2003. Adina
April 4 W. S. Ng, B. C. Ooi, K. L. Tan, A. Zhou, "PeerDB: A P2P-based System for Distributed Data Sharing", ICDE 2003. Pavel
April 11

A. Crespo, H. Garcia-Molina, "Routing Indices For Peer-to-Peer Systems", ICDCS 2002.

Prakash
April 18 J. Aspnes, G. Shah, "Skip Graphs", SODA 2003. Ashwin
April 25

V. Papadimos, D. Maier, K. Tufte, "Distributed Query Processing and Catalogs for Peer-to-Peer Systems", CIDR 2003.

Chavdar
May 2 A. Y. Halevy, Z. G. Ives, D. Suciu, I. Tatarinov, "Schema Mediation in Peer Data Management Systems", ICDE 2003. Feng