The Database Reading Group is a Datalab-sponsored entity that exists to discuss papers related (broadly speaking) to database technology. We meet on a weekly basis, Friday mornings from 10:00 to 11:30 AM. The standard meeting place is room 135-02 in PSU's Fourth Avenue Building. The group welcomes anyone, inside or outside of PSU, with an interest in the subject matter. Note that this is a "read-first" reading group (not all are). It is hoped that participants will read the scheduled paper before we meet to discuss it. Designated group members will lead the discussion each week.
DIRECTIONS: From the building's main entrance on Fourth Ave., follow the hallway at the northeast (far left) corner of the large lobby until it ends with a set of glass doors on your right. Enter these doors into a study area. A neon sign announcing the Department of Computer Science will be in front of you. Room 135 is through the glass door on your left, next to the whiteboard. Room 135-02 is the door on the right inside room 135. The door to room 135 requires an authorized key card to open, so if we are not expecting you please try to arrive early. We generally leave the door to 135-02 open for the first few minutes of the meeting and can hear a gentle knock on the glass if you are a little late.
We occasionally need to move to a different location; if we know in advance, it will be listed below.
Reading group announcements are sent to the group mailing list at dbreading@cs.pdx.edu. To (un)subscribe to this list, use the mailman web interface.
Scheduled papers (with Web links where possible) and discussion leaders are listed below. You can also see a list of papers previously discussed.
Direct inquiries to Scott Britell at: britell AT cs.pdx.edu.
Friday, 18 May 2012 @ 10:00 AM
Uniform Access to Non-Relational Database Systems: the SOS Platform
CAiSE 2012
Author(s): Atzeni, Bugiotti, Rossi
Not available online. Pick up a hardcopy or contact group coordinator.Discussion Leader: Michael Grossniklaus
Friday, 25 May 2012 @ 10:00 AM
WWW 2002
Author(s): Rakesh Agrawal and Ramakrishnan Srikant
Discussion Leader: Veronika Megler
Friday, 01 June 2012 @ 10:00 AM
Storing Matrices on Disk: Theory and Practice Revisited
VLDB 2011
Author(s): Yi Zhang, Kamesh Munagala, and Jun Yang
Discussion Leader: Patrick Leyshock
Friday, 08 June 2012 @ 10:00 AM
Techniques for Efficiently Querying Scientific Workflow Provenance Graphs
EDBT 2010
Author(s): Manish Kumar Anand, Shawn Bowers, Bertram Lud?scher
Discussion Leader: Lois Delcambre
Friday, 15 June 2012 @ 10:00 AM
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 13, Issue 3
Author(s): Buche, P., Dervin, C., Haemmerle, O., Thomopoulos, R.
Discussion Leader: Abdussalam Alawini