Database Group Meetings

The purpose of these meetings is to provide a forum where people explore new ideas in databases and information systems.

Fall 2004

Monday, 16:00
101 Lindley Hall

Topics scheduled

Date Topic Presenter
Aug 30
Sept 6 planning All
Sept 10
2-3 pm
CS Research Poster Session All
Sept 13 OVERVIEW OF DB RESEARCH
AT IU
powerpoint presentation
All
Sept 20 measuring diversity Dirk Van Gucht (work with Bassem Sayrafi, Paul Purdom, and Nele Dexters)
Sept 27 XML query rewriting & optimization (in LH 115) Melanie Wu
Oct 4 views on views Richard Martin & Ed Robertson
Oct 11 Schema Matching George Fletcher
Oct 18 dynamic adaptive lattice traversal Dennis Groth (work with Paul Purdom & Dirk Van Gucht)
Oct 25 PIVOT-UNPIVOT Paper Presentation Fulya Erdinc
Nov 1 Collaborative filtering from donated web bookmarks Mira Stoilova, Ben Markines and Fil Menczer
Nov 8 Work in progress: OLAP Aggregation / Data Mapping Cathy Wyss / George Fletcher
Nov 15 Indexing for text databases Mira Stoilova and Dirk Van Gucht
Nov 22 Mining De Bruijn Graphs Memo Dalkilic
Nov 29 Specifying Security Views for XML Sriram Mohan
Dec 6 Semantic Similarity Ana Maguitman (work with Filippo Menczer, Heather Roinestad, and Alessandro Vespignani)
Dec 13 Theoretical Bounds on the Size of Condensed Representations Nele Dexters

Spring 2005

It is likely that the group meeting will be merged with the B669 seminar.

Previous Year's Schedules