Database Reading Group

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 155 at PSU's 4th avenue building. We occasionally need to move to a different location, see the list below for details. 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.

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 Nick Rayner at: raynern AT cs.pdx.edu.


SCHEDULE


Friday, 11 July 2008 @ 10:00 AM

A Visual Environment for Dynamic Web Application Composition

Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HYPERTEXT '03)

Author(s): Kimihito Ito and Yuzuru Tanaka

Discussion Leader: Lois Delcambre


Friday, 18 July 2008 @ 10:00 AM

Extreme Visualization: Squeezing a Billion Records into a Million Pixels

SIGMOD '08

Author(s): Ben Shneiderman

Discussion Leader: Len Shapiro


Friday, 25 July 2008 @ 10:00 AM

Bootstrapping Pay-as-You-Go Data Integration Systems

SIGMOD '08

Author(s): Anish Das Sarma, Xin Dong, and Alon Halevy

Discussion Leader: Nick Rayner


Friday, 01 August 2008 @ 10:00 AM

Provenance Management in Curated Databases

SIGMOD '06

Author(s): Peter Buneman, Adriane Chapman, and James Cheney

Discussion Leader: David Archer


Friday, 08 August 2008 @ 10:00 AM

Pay-as-You-Go User Feedback for Dataspace Systems

SIGMOD '08

Author(s): Shawn R. Jeffery, Michael J. Franklin, and Alon Y. Halevy

Discussion Leader: Rafael J. Fernandez-Moctezuma


Friday, 15 August 2008 @ 10:00 AM

Flexible and Efficient IR Using Array Databases

The VLDB Journal, January 2008

Author(s): Roberto Cornacchia, Sandor Heman, Marcin Zukowski, Arjen P. Vries, Peter Boncz

Discussion Leader: Dave Maier