198:68999 (03) Readings in Data Management

Light Seminar

Thursdays 2:30-4pm, Hill 482

Instructor: Amélie Marian
Office hours: Mondays 2-3pm, CoRE 324


Description

In this seminar, we will discuss some influential and/or recent work in data management research. Each week, one or more papers from leading conferences and journals will be presented and discussed.


Schedule

Date Speaker Presentation
January 19 Amélie Marian Introduction
January 26 Ana Paula Centeno
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
February 2 Afzal Mazhar Combining Systems and Databases: A Search Engine Retrospective
Eric Brewer

(a related video, pointed by Smriti)

February 9 Su Chen Optimal workload-based weighted wavelet synopses
Y. Matias, D. Urieli.
ICDT 2005
February 16 Vladislav Shkapenyuk Candidacy Exam Practice Talk
February 23 Irina Rozenbaum Gigascope: A Stream Database for Network Applications
Chuck Cranor, Theodore Johnson, Oliver Spataschek,Vladislav Shkapenyuk
SIGMOD 2003
March 2 Rekha Bachwani The Dangers of Replication and a Solution
Jim Gray, Pat Helland, Patrick E. O'Neil, Dennis Shasha
SIGMOD 1996
March 9 Smriti Bhagat The Design of an Acquisitional Query Processor for Sensor Networks
Samuel Madden, Michael Franklin, Joseph Hellerstein, Wei Hong
SIGMOD 2003
March 16 Spring Break
March 23 Wei Zhuang

What's different: Distributed continuous monitoring of duplicate-resilient
aggregates on data streams

March 30 Andre Madeira A Structure Preserving Database Encryption Scheme
Yuval Elovici1, Ronen Waisenberg1, Erez Shmueli1, and Ehud Gudes2
April 6 Wei Zheng An Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP Technology (ps file)
Surajit Chaudhuri, Umeshwar Dayal
SIGMOD Record  1997
April 13 Bethany Leffler BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases
  Luiz Ramos Querying the Internet with PIER
Ryan Huebsch, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Nick Lanham,
Boon Thau Loo, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica,
VLDB 2003
April 20 Irantha Suwandarathna PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multi-parametric Ranked Queries
  Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstantinou
SIGMOD 2001
April 27 John Francisco  


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