VLDB 2005 PhD Workshop · August 29, Trondheim, Norway A Workshop co-located with VLDB 2005, Trondheim
Announcement Important Dates How to Submit Program Committee Accepted Papers Contact Information		Announcement PhD workshop to be held in conjunction with VLDB 2005 A PhD workshop will be held on Monday August 29, in Trondheim, Norway in conjunction with VLDB 2005. We especially encourage students just getting involved in a research project to submit short papers to this workshop. Any topic covered by the VLDB conference is acceptable. The thesis advisor may be a coauthor, but the first author should be the student. The accepted papers will be published on the web. The paper should clearly describe a problem and explain why it is important and what the existing solutions are and why they are not sufficient, and give some indication of new solutions the student is pursuing. There should be enough substance to provide discussion, but the work should not be complete. The Program Committee for this workshop consists entirely of distinguished researchers who have obtained their PhDs within the last 4 years. Each member of the Program Committee has agreed to attend the PhD workshop if he or she is attending the VLDB conference itself. The paper presentations will only be 15 minutes, with 15 additional minutes for discussion. We hope to revive the original idea of a "workshop"---the dictionary says "a meeting for concerted discussion or activity". It should be a lively, exciting event.
		Important Dates April 22, Submission Deadline June 10, Notification of Acceptance June 25, Final Paper Due
		How to Submit Authors should submit their papers in PDF format and abstracts in plain text to vldbphd@ccs.neu.edu by April 22, 2005 (11:00 p.m. Eastern Time, US & Canada). The papers should be 5 pages (or less) long and use the standard VLDB paper formatting. Notice: Papers should be significantly different from any other submissions. A PhD workshop paper must take a global point of view, relevant to the entire thesis program. It should be speculative rather than completed work. For this reason, there should be no question of significant overlap with any full technical paper on a narrow topic submitted to any past or current technical conference or journal. If you have a conflict of interest with one of the program committee members, please say so in your message. (List of program committee members and their affiliations is in Program Committee section) You have a conflict if 1. you have recently collaborated with the PC member or 2. the PC member is your thesis advisor or 3. the PC member is at your university
		Program Committee (click the names to visit homepages) Chair: Betty Salzberg, Northeastern University, USA Sihem Amer-Yahia, AT&T Labs Research, USA Peter Boncz, CWI, The Netherlands Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA Alin Deutsch, UC San Diego, USA Zach Ives, University of Pennsylvania, USA George Kollios, Boston University, USA Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Felix Naumann, Humboldt University, Germany Rachel Pottinger, UBC, Canada Maitrayi Sabaratnam, Sun, Norway Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Cornell University, USA Yufei Tao, City University, Hong Kong Wei Wang, University of North Carolina, USA Jun Yang, Duke University, USA Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA Jingren Zhou, Microsoft, USA
		Accepted Papers (12 out of 41 submissions) Download Proceedings "Updating XML Views (1)", Ling Wang, Elke A. Rundensteiner and Murali Mani "Fuzzy Duplicate Detection on XML Data", Melanie Weis "A Relational Operator Approach to Data Fusion", Jens Bleiholder "Updating XML Views (2)", Roel Vercammen "Measuring and Evaluating Dissimilarity in Data and Pattern Spaces", Irene Ntoutsi and Yannis Theodoridis "The Query Web: Reliable Indexing In Dynamic Networks", Sven Herschel "Processing Skyline Queries in P2P Systems", Katja Hose "Automatic Techniques for Data Model Translation", Paolo Papotti and Riccardo Torlone "A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration", Xin (Luna) Dong "OntoQL: an exploitation language for OBDBs", Stephane Jean, Guy Pierra and Yamine Ait-Ameur "A general approach to query flattening", Joeri van Ruth "Hardware-Conscious DBMS Architecture for Data-Intensive Applications", Marcin Zukowski
		Contact Information Web master: Panfeng (Tony) Zhou (zhoupf@ccs.neu.edu)