WORKSHOP ON QUERY OPTIMIZATION
October 1 and 2, 1999

Seminar Hall,
C. S. E. Department
I. I. T. Bombay

Organized by IIT Bombay in cooperation with PSPL Pune.


Contact email:  sudarsha[AT]cse.iitb.ernet.in


SCHEDULE FOR THE WORKSHOP

Friday October 1, 1999

Seminar Hall, CSE Department

12.30 - 1.30   Lunch at CSE Department

Session 1a: Introduction
 
1.30 - 1.50  Overview of the workshop, introductions   
1.50 - 2.10   Brief overview of query optimization   S. Sudarshan

Tea break

Session 1b: Query Optimization Extensions
 
2.30 - 3.00    Parametric Query Optimization   Sumit Ganguly and students
3.00 - 3.30   Tree Query Optimization/ Memory Sensitive Opt   Sumit Ganguly and students
3.30 - 3.45   Memory Cognizant Query Optimization   Arvind Hulgeri
3.45 - 4.15   Dynamic Reordering of Plan Trees   Sunita Sarawagi

Tea and snacks break

Session 2: Multi Query Optimization
 
4.45 - 5.20    MQO, Microsoft Experience   Prasan Roy
5.20 - 5.30   Extensions to Multiquery Optimization   Amit Gupta 
5.30 - 5.45   View Maintenance and optimization    Hoshi Mistry

Short break

Session 3: Demo Session
 
6.00 - 7.00   Microsoft SQL Server Demo  

Session 4:  Discussion Session
 
7.00 - 7.50   VLDB-99 Update    Anand, Krithi, Prasan, Soumen
 and Sunita (chair)

 

8.00 - 9.00 :  Dinner at  Guest House
 

Saturday October 2, 1999

Visitors staying at guest house note:
Breakfast is at the main guest house even if you are staying at the staff hostel guest house.

Session 5: Caching
 
8.45 - 9.15   Optimizing polling frequencies in wide area applications   Krithi Ramamritham
9.15 - 9.35   Query Caching   Pradeep Shenoy and Jinesh Vora
9.35 - 9.45 Relation Caching Ravi Guravannavar

Tea break

Session 6: Semistructured Data and XML and Information Retrieval
 
10.00 -10.30   Informix Formation    Chetana Mehata
10.30 -11.00   Part I: Overview of XML/Semistructured data storage and querying
Part II: IR/hypertext analysis within/near a database
  Soumen Chakrabarti

Tea break

Session 7:  Directories
 
11.45 - 12.15   Writing an SQL engine for LDAP directories   Shridhar Shukla
12.15 - 12.45   Directories vs. Databases: A research perspective   Shridhar Shukla

12.45 - 1.30:  Lunch  (at CSE department)

Session 8: Concluding Session
 
1.30 - 2.30   Discussion session:
Further frontiers in Query Optimization
  Chair: S. Sudarshan


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