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                      XSym 2004: Call For Participation

                      **  Please Register NOW !!  **

             Early Registration Deadline: July 26, 2004     

             The Second International XML Database Symposium
                                
                             http://www.xsym.org/
       
                         In Conjunction with VLDB 2004
                          Toronto, Canada
                          29-30 August 2004

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Please use the VLDB registration system under http://www.vldb04.org/ to 
register for XSym04.
The fee for the symposium is CDN$ 210 (CDN$ 260 after 26 July) and includes the 
LNCS proceedings 
and attendance to all sessions and breaks (including lunch on the second day). 

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                             The program is now online.

SUNDAY 29 AUGUST
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14:00-15:30 Session 1: Symposium Introduction and Keynote

Building an Extensible XQuery Engine: Experiences with Galax
Mary Fernandez, AT&T Research

Abstract:
XQuery 1.0 and its sister language XPath 2.0 have set a fire underneath 
database vendors and 
researchers alike. More than thirty commercial and research XQuery 
implementations are listed 
on the XML Query working group home page. Most of these implementations are 
targeted to particular 
storage systems or application domains.
Galax is an open-source, general-purpose XQuery engine, designed for maximal 
extensibility. 
In this talk, we will discuss Galax's extensibility features and the design 
tradeoffs that we 
continuously face between extensibility and performance.


Mary Fernandez Biography:
Mary Fernandez is Principal Technical Staff at AT&T Labs - Research. Her 
research interests include 
data integration, Web-site implementation and management, domain-specific 
languages, and their 
interactions. She is a member of the W3C XML Query Language Working Group, 
co-editor of several of 
the XQuery W3C working drafts, and is a principal designer and implementor of 
Galax, a complete, 
open-source implementation of XQuery. Mary is also an associate editor of ACM 
Transactions on 
Database Systems and serves on the advisory board of MentorNet, an e-mentoring 
network for women in 
engineering and science.

15:30 -16:00  Coffee Break

16:00-17:30  Session 2: XQuery Processing

A Light but Formal Introduction to XQuery
J. Hidders and J. Paredaens

XML Query Processing using a Schema-based Numbering Scheme
D.D. Kha and M. Yoshikawa

Implementing Memoization in a Streaming XQuery Processor
Y. Diao, D. Florescu, D. Kossmann, M. Carey and M. Franklin

MONDAY 30 AUGUST
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09:00-10:30 Session 3: Searching, Ranking, and Mapping XML Documents

XQuery Processing with Relevance Ranking
L. Fegaras

Information Preservation in XML-to-Relational Mappings
D. Barbosa, J. Freire and A. Mendelzon

A Signature-Based Approach for Efficient Relationship Search on XML Data 
Collections
G. Amato, F. Debole, F. Rabitti, P. Savino and P. Zezula

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30  Session 4: XML Processing

A Runtime System for XML Transformations in Java
A.S. Christensen, C. Kirkegaard and A. Møller

Teaching Relational Optimizers about XML Processing
S. Amer-Yahia, Y. Kotidis and D. Srivastava

Adjustable Transaction Isolation in XML Database Management Systems
M. Haustein and T. Härder

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:30 Session 5: XML Constraints Checking and Correcting

Correctors for XML data
M. de Rougemont and U. Boobna

Incremental Constraint Checking for XML Documents
M.A. Abrao, B. Bouchou, M.H. Ferrari, D. Laurent and M. Musicante

Conceptual Models for XML
M. Mani

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Session 6: Clustering, Indexing, Statistics

Fractional XSketch Synopses for XML Databases
N. Kreimer, N. Polyzotis, M. Garofalakis and Y. Matias

Flexible Workload-aware Clustering of XML Documents
R. Bordawekar and O. Shmueli

XIST: An XML Index Selection Tool
K. Runapongsa, J.M. Patel, R. Bordawekar and S. Padmanabhan
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