PhD Forum

7th July 2009

Every year BNCOD organises a pre-conference PhD forum to provide help and advice for PhD Students currently engaged in database research. This is meant to be informal, providing an environment where PhD students may share their research experience and receive advice from experienced researchers.

The forum aims to provide an opportunity for researchers at the start of their careers to meet and share their work with their peers and, hopefully, help them to build up research networks for the years to come. Another aim is to provide an opportunity for PhD students in the database and related research areas to liaise with and receive advice from experts in the field who have a wealth of experience in supervising and examining PhD students.

The forum will start with a number of talks, which will focus on various aspects of a student's journey from start to completion, such as managing your supervisor and surviving the viva. The second half will be dedicated to the delivery of accepted papers, which will be presented in front of a panel of experts and other PhD Forum participants. Each presentation will be followed by questions from the audience and comments/feedback from the panel members.

Papers should be submitted by, and, if accepted, presented by PhD students. Submissions should be a maximum of four (4) pages in length including all figures, tables and references, and should be submitted in PDF format according to guidelines used by Springer Verlag for their LNCS series. This format can be found at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 . Final camera ready copy versions of the papers should be submitted to be included in a PhD Forum proceedings, which will be available at the conference.

Deadlines

PhD Forum paper submission:	8th May 2009 22nd May 2009
Notification of Acceptance:	22nd May 2009 27th May 2009
Author Registration:	1st June 2009 15th June 2009
Final camera ready copy:	7th June 2009 15th June 2009

PhD Forum Programme

From 08:30: Registration

09:00–09:05: Introduction and Welcome

9.05–9.30 Prof Alex Gray, Cardiff University
Managing your Supervisor

9.30–09.55 Prof Mike Jackson, Birmingham City University
Surviving the Viva

09.55–10.20 Prof Keith G Jeffery, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Preparing Your Career

11:20–11:40: Coffee Break

10.40–11.00 Alan P. Sexton and Conglun Yao
Qanat: Compile-Time Type Safe and Loosely Coupled Data Persistence

11.00–11.20 Frank Huber
Query Processing on Multi-Core Architectures

11.20–11.40 Jianing Wang
Quality Verification in Data Integration Systems

11.40–12.00 Namit Gupta
A Goal driven Approach to Data Warehouse Design

12.00–12.20 Hmood Al-Dossari, Alun Preece and Jianhua Shao
Improving QoS Assessment Involving Multiple Attributes

12.20–12.40 Ahsan-ul Morshed
Controlled Vocabulary Matching in Distributed System

12.40–13.00 Amer Ibrahim and José Samos
Management of Ontology Views in an Evolving Environment

13:00–14:00: Lunch