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
