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.
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