26th British National Conference on Databases

BNCOD 2009

7th-9th July 2009
University of Birmingham

Dataspace: The Final Frontier

Provisional Programme

Monday, 6 July 2009

Workshops


Tuesday, 7 July 2009

09:00–12:30: PhD forum (PhD students and Forum Panel only)

12:30–14:00: Lunch

Opening Keynote

14:00–14:15: Opening

14:15–15:15: Michael Franklin
Dataspaces: Progress and Prospects

15:15–15:45: Coffee Break

Paper Session 1: Data Integration, Warehousing and Privacy

15:45–16:15: Zhongtian He, Jun Hong, David Bell
A Prioritized Collective Selection Strategy for Schema Matching across Query Interfaces

16:15–16:45: Victor Gonzalez-Castro, Lachlan Mhor MacKinnon, Maria del Pilar Angeles
An Alternative Data Warehouse Reference Architectural Configuration

16:45–17:15: Ken Barker, Maryam Majedi, Kambiz Ghazinour, Mina Askari, Mishtu Banerjee, Brenan Mackas, Sampson Pun, Adepele Williams
A Data Privacy Taxonomy

19:00-20:00: Reception


Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Tutorial 1

09:00–10:30: Jens Dittrich
The iMeMex Dataspace Management System: Architecture, Concepts, and Lessons Learned

10:30–11:00: Coffee Break

Paper Session 2: Alternative Data Models

11:00–11:30: Cornelia Hedeler, Khalid Belhajjame, Alvaro A.A. Fernandes, Suzanne M. Embury, Norman W. Paton
Dimensions of Dataspaces

11:30–12:00: Victor Gonzalez-Castro, Lachlan Mhor MacKinnon, Maria del Pilar Angeles
The Use of the Binary-Relational Model in Industry, a Practical Approach

12:00–12:30: Richard Molyneux, Vladimir Sazonov
Hyperset Approach to Semi-structured Databases, and Computation of Bisimulation in the Distributed Case

12:30-14:00: Lunch

Short and Poster Paper Session

14:00–14:20: John Colquhoun, Paul Watson
Evaluating a Peer-to-Peer Database Server based on BitTorrent (Short Paper)

14:20–14:40: Denise Arnold, Sven Helmer, Rodolfo Velasquez Arando
Towards Building a Knowledge Base for Research on Andean Weaving (Short Paper)

14:40–14:50: Florian Irmert, Thomas Fischer, Frank Lauterwald, Klaus Meyer-Wegener
The Adaptation Model of a Runtime Adaptable DBMS (Poster Paper)

14:50–15:00: Nikos Rizopoulos, Peter McBrien
Schema Merging based on Semantic Mappings (Poster Paper)

15:00–15:10: Richard Cooper, Laura Devenny
A Database System for Integrating Conflicting and Uncertain Information from Multiple Correspondents (Poster Paper)

15:10–15:20: Laura Silveira Mastella, Yamine Ait Ameur, Stephane Jean, Michel Perrin, Jean-François Rainaud
Semantic Exploitation of Engineering Models: an Application to Oilfield Models (Poster Paper)

15:20–15:30: Raddad Al King, Abdelkader Hameurlain, Franck Morvan
Ontology-Based Method for Schema Matching in a Peer-to-Peer Database System (Poster Paper)

15:30–16:00: Coffee Break

Paper Session 3: Querying

16:00–16:30: Venkatesh Raghavan, Yali Zhu, Elke Rundensteiner, Daniel Dougherty
Multi-Join Continuous Query Optimization: Covering the Spectrum of Linear, Acyclic and Cyclic Queries

16:30–17:00: Essam Mansour, Hagen Hoepfner
An XML-Based Model for Supporting Context-Aware Query and Cache Management

17:00–17:30: Adesola Omotayo, Ken Barker, Moustafa Hammad, Lisa Higham, Jalal Kawash
Answering Multiple-Item Queries in Data Broadcast Systems

19:30-22:00: Banquet


Thursday, 9 July 2009

Tutorial 2

09:00–10:30: Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei Jia
Conditional Dependencies: A Principled Approach to Improving Data Quality

10:30–11:00: Coffee Break

Paper Session 4: Path Queries and XML

11:00–11:30: Yuqing Wu, Dirk Van Gucht, Marc Gyssens, Jan Paredaens
A Study of a Positive Fragment of Path Queries: Expressiveness, Normal Form, and Minimization

11:30–12:00: Gerard Marks, Mark Roantree
Gerard Marks, Mark Roantree

12:00–12:30: Ramez Alkhatib, Marc H. Scholl
Compacting XML Structures Using a Dynamic Labeling Scheme

12:30-13:30: Lunch

Closing Keynote

13:30–14:30: Domenico Laforenza
XtreemOS: Towards a Grid-enabled Linux-based Operating System

14:30–14:45: Closing