| Date | Topics | Presenter | References |
|---|
| Jan 21 | No class | None | None |
| Jan 28 | Preference Queries | Jan Chomicki |
J. Chomicki: Logical Foundations of Preference Queries. DEBull 2011. |
| Feb 4 | Missing Query Answers | Ying Yang |
A. Chapman, H. Jagadish: Why Not?, SIGMOD 2009. |
| Feb 4 | RDF Graph Matching | L. B. Kandlakunta |
L. Zou et al: gstore: Answering SPARQL Queries via Subgraph Matching. VLDB 2011. |
| Feb 11 | GraphQL | S. S. Saley |
H. He, A. Singh: Graphs-at-a-Time: Query Language and Access Methods for Graph Databases. SIGMOD 2008. |
| Feb 11 | Representative Skylines | N. Meneghetti |
A. Das Sarma et al: Representative Skylines using Threshold-based Preference Distributions. ICDE 2011. |
| Feb 18 | Query Result Presentation | Kiran Ramachandra |
B. Liu, H. V. Jagadish: Using Trees to Depict a Forest. VLDB 2009. |
| February 18 | Keyword Search and Forms | A. Vasudeva |
E. Chiu: Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases. SIGMOD 2009. |
| Feb 25 | CrowdER | Varun Ranga |
J. Wang et al: CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution. VLDB 2012. |
| Feb 25 | Crowdsourcing | Patricia Ortega |
M. J. Franklin et al.: CrowdDB: answering queries with crowdsourcing. SIGMOD 2011. |
| March 18 | Entangled Queries | Satyaditya M |
N. Gupta et al: Entangled Queries: Enabling Declarative Data-Driven Coordination. SIGMOD 2011. |
| March 25 | SODA | N. B. Karnati |
L. Blunschi et al.: SODA: Generating SQL for Business Users. VLDB 2012. |
| March 25 | Trade-offs in Preference Queries | S. C. Yennamani |
Ch. Lofi et al: Efficient Computation of Trade-Off Skylines. EDBT 2010 |
| April 1 | YAGO Ontology | S. Mehra |
F. Suchanek et al: Yago - A Core of Semantic Knowledge, WWW 2007 |
| April 1 | YAGO2 | M. C. Vishnubhotla |
J. Hoffart et al: YAGO2: A spatially and temporally enhanced knowledge base from Wikipedia, AI Journal, January 2013 |
| April 8 | Deduplication | Shilpa Murthy Ayyala Somayajula |
A. K. Elmagarmid et al: Duplicate record detection: A survey. TKDE 2007. |
| April 8 | Reverse Top-K Queries | Kalpesh Kagresha |
A. Vlachou et al: Identifying the Most Influential Data Objects with Reverse Top-k Queries. VLDB 2010. |
| April 15, 5:00pm | One algorithm to rule them all: One join query at a time | Atri Rudra | PODS'12 Best Paper Award.
(No critique required.) |
| April 29 | K*SQL | S. V. Adivikolanu |
B. Mozafari et al: From Regular Expressions to Nested Words: Unifying Languages and Query Execution for Relational and XML Sequences, VLDB 2010. |
| TBD | Temporal Graphs | TBD |
C. Ren et al: On Querying Historical Evolving Graph Sequences. VLDB 2011. |
| TBD | SPARQL Query Relaxation | TBD |
A. Poulovassilis, P. Wood: Combining Approximation and Relaxation in Semantic Web Path Queries, ISWC 2010. |
| TBD | Copying Relationships | TBD |
X. L. Dong: Global Detection of Complex Copying Relationships Between Sources. VLDB 2010. |
| TBD | Certain Fixes | TBD |
W. Fan et al: Towards Certain Fixes with Editing Rules and Master Data, VLDB Journal 2012 (shorter version: VLDB 2010). |
| TBD | Conditional Functional Dependencies | TBD |
W. Fan et al: Conditional functional dependencies for capturing data inconsistencies. TODS 2008 (shorter version: ICDE 2007). |
| TBD | Creating Best Packages | TBD |
Q. Wan et al: Creating Competitive Products. VLDB 2009. |
| TBD | Reverse Query Processing | TBD |
C. Binnig et al: Reverse Query Processing. ICDE 2007. |
| TBD | Probabilistic Skyline | TBD |
I. Bartolini et al: The Skyline of a Probabilistic Relation. TKDE 2012. |