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CSE 718: Advanced Topics in Database Systems

Spring 2008


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Description

The purpose of the seminar is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art on a set of topics in current database research. Each week, 2-3 papers on a databases-related topic will be presented and discussed. A choice of papers is given for the students to pick which one to present. Also, the students are required to read the papers scheduled for presentation each week, to be able to participate in discussions in class. In detail:

  • The students will be required to give a class presentation and prepare a report. Those will be based on an original research or survey paper.
  • Report Guidelines - Due one week after your presentation
  • All students must read at least one relevant paper a week and be prepared for the discussions in class. Every student has to ask at least one question!
  • Class attendance and participation are mandatory.
  • It is possible to register for 1-3 credits.
  • Prerequisite: CSE 562 or equivalent.

Schedule

. Day/Time/Location
Seminar Friday
4:00pm - 6:00pm
242 Bell Hall
Preparation Meeting Tuesday
12:00pm - 2:00pm (Flexible)
210 Bell Hall

The following is a tentative schedule of presentations. Please check this section frequently.

Week Date Topic/Presenter References Slides/Report
1 01/14 Seminar Introduction & Topics Discussion
2 01/21 No Meeting (Martin Luther King Day)
3 01/28 Interactive Query Formulation over Web Service-Accessed Sources
Michalis Petropoulos
  1. Interactive Query Formulation over Web Service-Accessed Sources
  2. Exporting and Interactively Querying Web Service-Accessed Sources: The CLIDE System
Slides
4 02/08 On the Semantics and Evaluation of Top-k Queries in Probabilistic Databases
Xi Xhang
  1. X. Zhang and J. Chomicki: On the Semantics and Evaluation of Top-k Queries in Probabilistic Databases, DBRank Workshop, in conjunction with ICDE, 2008. Full version available as CSE Technical Report.
Slides
5 02/15 Detecting Anomalous Access Patterns in Relational Databases
Sergey Chernokozinskiy
  1. Detecting Anomalous Access Patterns in Relational Databases
Slides Report
6 02/22 Automatic Categorization of Query Results
Abhijith Kashyap
  1. Automatic Categorization of Query Results
Slides
7 02/29 Addressing Diverse User Preferences in SQL-Query-Result Navigation
Abhijith Kashyap
  1. Addressing Diverse User Preferences in SQL-Query-Result Navigation
Slides Report
8 03/07 Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning
Sneha Godbole
  1. Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning
  2. Using The Barton Libraries Dataset As An RDF benchmark
Slides Report
9 03/14 No Meeting (Spring Recess)
10 03/21 Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach
Yogesh Vaidya
  1. Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach
Slides Report
An Interactive Clustering-based Approach to Integrating Source Query interfaces on the Deep Web
Manas Pradhan
  1. An Interactive Clustering-based Approach to Integrating Source Query interfaces on the Deep Web
Slides Report
11 03/28 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases
Yogesh Bedekar
  1. Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases
Slides Report
K-relevance: A Spectrum of Relevance for Data Sources Impacting a Query
Demian Lessa
  1. K-relevance: A Spectrum of Relevance for Data Sources Impacting a Query
Slides Report
12 04/04 Unifying Data and Domain Knowledge Using Virtual Views
Kalyana Krishnan
  1. Unifying Data and Domain Knowledge Using Virtual Views
Slides Report
A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data
Hua Zhao
  1. A Relational Approach to Incrementally Extracting and Querying Structure in Unstructured Data
Slides Report
13 04/11 Lazy Query Evaluation for Active XML
Anup Athavale
  1. Lazy Query Evaluation for Active XML
Slides Report
An Approach to Optimize Data Processing in Business Processes
Megha R Kumar
  1. An Approach to Optimize Data Processing in Business Processes
Slides Report
14 04/18 Indexing Dataspaces
Sravanth Palepu
  1. Indexing Dataspaces
Slides Report
iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces
Denis Mindolin
  1. iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces
Slides Report
15 04/25 Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results
Abhishek Jamloki
  1. Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results
Slides Report
Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly
Bruce Vincent
  1. Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly
Slides

Topics

This is the tentative list of possible presentation topics that I would like to cover in the seminar. You can choose among those or propose another topic. Seed papers for each topic will keep being added until the first meeting. You should look at the list of references in these papers to find more relevant papers. You should also use Google Scholar to find later papers that reference the seed papers.