Alberto Mendelzon Workshop on Foundations of Data Management

Alberto Mendelzon Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (May 12--May14 of 2009, Arequipa-Peru)
Tutorials

* Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile);
RDF Databases
* Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh);
Schema mappings and data exchange for XML
* Laks Lakshmanan (U. British Columbia);
Social Networks: Is there more in them for us Database Types than just Poking?
* Peter Wood (University of London, Birkbeck);
Query languages for graph databases

Session1

* Andrea Cali, and Riccardo Torlone;
Checking Containment of Schema Mappings (Preliminary Report).
* Michael Meier, Michael Schmidt and Georg Lausen;
Stop the Chase.
* Ali Kiani and Nematollaah Shiri;
Using Patterns for Faster and Scalable Rewriting of Conjunctive Queries.
* Renzo Angles;
A Nested Graph Model for Visualizing RDF Data

Session2

* Tao Yang and Dongwon Lee;
T^3: On Mapping Text to Time Series.
* Leticia Gomez, Bart Kuijpers and Alejandro Vaisman;
Temporal Support in Sequential Pattern Mining.
* Monica R P Ferreira, Agma Traina, Ires Dias, Richard Chbeir and Caetano Traina;
Identifying Algebraic Properties to Support Optimization of Unary Similarity Queries.

Session3

* Anish Das Sarma, Jeffrey Ullman and Jennifer Widom;
Schema Design for Uncertain Databases.
* Leopoldo Bertossi;
From Database Repair Programs to Consistent Query Answering in Classical Logic (extended abstract).
* Leopoldo Bertossi, Loreto Bravo and Monica Caniupan;
Consistent Query Answering in Data Warehouses.

Session4

* David Toman;
Data Expiration and Aggregate Queries.
* Loreto Bravo and M. Andrea Rodriguez;
Semantic Integrity Constraints for Spatial Databases
* Md. Anisur Rahman, Mehedi Masud, Iluju Kiringa and Abdul Motaleb El Saddik;
Bi-Level Mapping: Combining Schema and Data Level Heterogeneity in Peer Data Sharing Systems

Graduate Student Workshop (May 15)
Tutorial:

* Alberto Laender; Web Data Extraction: Methods and Tools

Session 5

* Alejandro Mallea;
Understanding the structure of RDF data: a practical study (PDF)
* Juan Reutter;
Extending Query Languages for Data Exchange (PDF)
* Jorge Perez;
Metadata Management in Data Exchange Systems (PDF)