AIDB Seminar Fall 2001 Schedule

All seminars held in GWC 416 on Tuesdays from 3:15-4:15

Schedule

• 8/21: Organization meeting.

• 8/28: AI: Discussion on IJCAI-2001 + brief talk by Romain Trinquart on IxTET.

• 9/4: DB: Discussion on XML Middleware paper from VLDB-2001 (by the INRIA folks). Discussion lead by Sreelakshmi.

• 9/7: Special seminar: Sudeshna Sarkar IIT-KGP on personalization strategies for web search.

• 9/11: No seminar

• 9/18: DB: Discussion on Updating XML (Tatarinov et. al. in SIGMOD 2001). Discussion lead by Sreelakshmi.

• 9/25: AI: Stephen Edelkampf's paper on application of pattern databases to planning (ECP 2001). Discussion lead by Hung Nguyen (but hijacked by Rao).

• 10/2: DB: Talk by Nie on his CIKM paper "Joint optimization of coverage and cost in data integration".

• 10/9: AI: Discussion of Hector Geffner's paper (over there on the bench outside ERC--GWC is closed you know..) Planning as Branch and Bound and its relation to constraint-based approaches. This is the conference version of a much longer paper that Hector circulated last semester.

• 10/16: Postponed (GWC 416 locked)

• 10/23: DB: A presentation on Xquery by Venkatesh

• 10/30: AI: Personalization issues by Catherine Wen

• 11/6: DB: None; Paucity of volunteers.

• 11/13: AI: Supply chain management by Gary Godding

• 11/20: DB: Ontologies (Leo Long)

• 11/27: AI: Feature selection? (Lei Yu)

• 12/4: DB: Quorum Systems by Chris Mayer

Potential future talks/seminars

1. AI/DB: Talk by Leo on his ontology work (11/20?)

2. DB: Talk on learning coverage statistics by Nie or Ullas or Lakshmi

3. DB: XML Algebra by chitta? XML datamodel by Ullas?

4. AI: Lei Yu--Feature selection..

5. DB: Talk on XML Benchmarks by Ullas or Zoe