6th VLDB PhD Workshop: Call for Participation

[Neoklis Polyzotis]

                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                        6th VLDB PhD Workshop
                          August 24th, 2008
                         Auckland, New Zealand

                http://db.cs.ucsc.edu/VLDB08_PhD_Workshop/

                      In conjunction with VLDB 2008

The VLDB PhD workshop is a forum for PhD students working in the broad
areas addressed by the VLDB conference itself. This forum aims at
facilitating interactions among PhD students and at stimulating feedback
from more experienced researchers. The workshop builds on the success
of the previous 5 workshops that were organized in conjunction with the
main VLDB conference of the same year.

== PROGRAM ==

9:00-10.30 : SEARCH AND MINING
- Challenges and Techniques for Effective and Efficient Similarity Search in Large Video Databases,
  Jie Shao (The University of Queensland)
- Studying Interaction Methodologies in Video Retrieval,
  Frank Hopfgartner (University of Glasgow)
- Mining Patterns and Rules for Software Specification Discovery,
  David Lo (National University Singapore)

10.30-11.00 : Break

11.00-12.30 : SYSTEM DESIGN
- Towards Efficient Main-Memory Use For Optimum Tree Index Update,
  Laurynas Biveinis (Aalborg University)
- Implementing Filesystems by Tree-aware DBMSs,
  Alexander Holupirek (University of Konstanz)
- Adaptive Workflow Scheduling Under Resource Allocation Constraints and Network Dynamics,
  Artin Avanes (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

12.30-13.30 : Lunch

13.30-15.00 : PRIVACY, SECURITY AND INCOMPLETENESS
- Privacy Preserving Document Indexing Infrastructure for a Distributed Environment,
  Sergej Zerr (L3S Research Center)
- GS-TMS: A Global Stream-based Threat Monitor System,
  Jiajia Miao (The NUDT)
- Incompleteness in Information Integration,
  Evgeny Kharlamov (Free University of Bozen-Bolza)

15.00-15.30 : Break

15.30-17.00 : WEB AND P2P
- Querying Web-Based Applications Under Models of Uncertainty,
  Daniel Deutch (Tel Aviv University)
- XML-Document-Filtering Automaton,
  Panu Silvasti (Helsinki University Of Technology)
- Community-Driven Data Grids,
  Tobias Scholl (Technische Universität München)
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