COMAD 2005 KEYNOTES

Keynote K1
TIMBER: A Native XML Database Management System
H V Jagadish
(U. Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA, and NUS Singapore)

ABSTRACT:
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has recently become very popular as a representation format for a wide variety of data. Large repositories of XML data have begun to emerge. The effective management of XML in a database thus becomes a pressing issue. A central challenge in this regard is the complex and heterogeneous structure of XML data. In this talk, I will discuss the design of Timber, a native XML database management system that we are building at the University of Michigan.

SPEAKER BIO:
H. V. Jagadish is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After earning his PhD from Stanford in 1985, he spent over a decade at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., eventually becoming head of AT&T Labs database research department at the Shannon Laboratory in Florham Park, N.J. He has also served as a Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Professor Jagadish is well-known for his broad-ranging research on databases, and has over 80 major papers and 20 patents. He is a Fellow of the ACM. Among many professional positions he has held, he has previously been an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Database Systems (1992-1995) and Program Chair of the ACM SIGMOD annual conference (1996). He will be serving as Program Chair for the ISMB conference in 2005.

Keynote K2
Challenges of Information Integration
C N Ram (HDFC Bank, India)

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