Aims

The VLDB 2003 PhD Workshop is intended to bring together PhD students workin on topics related to the VLDB Conference series. It is supposed to be an opportunity for young researchers at the start of their careers to share their work with others in a similar position from all around the world, to present and to discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. Building links and person-to-person networks shall be beneficial to our science and be long lasting and rewarding for yourselves. Furthermore, we invited a few more experienced researchers, people who have had experience in supervising and examining PhD students, so as to provide feedback and advice to the participants.

The workshop addresses PhD students at any stage of their PhD work: people just starting their PhDs, those in the middle and some close to completion.

Location

[Posted August 28, 2003.] The VLDB 2003 PhD Workshop location is the Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin). (Note: the main VLDB 2003 conference site is Humboldt Universität Berlin (HU Berlin) - please do not confuse the two.)

Public Transport

Your best bet to get to the workshop site is the dense underground (U-Bahn) network. Use U-Bahn line U1 and exit at station Dahlem-Dorf. You can also use the bus, line 183 (exit at Arnimallee) or bus line 101 (exit at Limonenstrasse).

• Map of workshop site vicinity (the marks the U-Bahn station)
• U-Bahn/bus time tables and trip planner

The workshop will take place in the FU Berlin Computer Science (Informatik) building, room no. 005. Simply enter the building through its main entrance, then turn left.

The complete address of the workshop site is

Freie Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik
Institut für Informatik
Takustrasse 9
D-14195 Berlin
- Germany -


Electronic Proceedings

[Posted August 18, 2003.] The 17 accepted papers of the VLDB 2003 PhD Workshop have been collected into an Electronic Workshop Proceedings: CEUR-WS.org, Volume 76.

If you want to cite a paper in these proceedings, please follow the example below.

J. Schindler: Matching Database Access Patterns to Storage Characteristics. Proc. of the VLDB 2003 PhD Workshop, Berlin, Germany, September 12-13, 2003, online CEUR-ws.org/Vol-76/schindler.pdf

Workshop Program and Sessions

Accepted Papers

[Posted June 17, 2003.] The VLDB 2003 PhD Workshop Committee selected the following submissions for presentation at the workshop in Berlin (in no particular order):

• Carsten Pohle (HHL Leipzig, Germany)
  Integrating and Updating Domain Knowledge with Data Mining
• Krisztian Vereb (U Debrecen, Hungary)
  On a Hierarchical Indexing Fuzzy Content-Based Image Retrieval Approach
• Stefania Marrara (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  Analysis and design of approximate queries over XML documents using statistical techniques
• Vojkan Mihajlovic (U Twente, The Netherlands)
  CIRQuL - Complex Information Retrieval Query Language
• Heiko Müller (Humboldt U Berlin, Germany)
  Semantic Data Cleansing in Genome Databases
• Jens Teubner (U Konstanz, Germany)
  Pathfinder: Compiling XQuery for Execution on the Monet Database Engine
• Caspar Treijtel (CWI, The Netherlands)
  AmbientDB: Complex Query Processing for P2P Networks
• Jiying Wang (Harbin Inst of Technology, China)
  Information Discovery, Extraction and Integration for the Hidden Web
• Ilya Pevzner (NYU, USA)
  Extending relational database functionality with data inconsistency resolution support
• Gabriele Witterstein (Munich U of Technology, Germany)
  A Space Efficient Persistent Implementation of an Index for DNA Sequences
• Qiang Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
  Combined Locking Approach for Scheduling Hard Real-Time Transactions in Real-Time Databases
• Alkis Simitsis (U Athens, Greece)
  Modeling and managing ETL processes
• Philippe Michiels (U Antwerp, Belgium)
  XQuery Optimization
• Lutz Schlesinger (U Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
  Consistency Based Snapshot Management in Data Grids
• Segev Wasserkrug (Technion/IBM Research Labs Haifa, Israel)
  Inference and Prediction of Uncertain Events in Active Systems: A Language and Execution Model
• Yongluan Zhou (National U, Singapore)
  Adaptive Distributed Query Processing
• Jiri Schindler (CMU, USA)
  Matching Database Access Patterns to Storage Characteristics

Topics & Submission

[The submission deadline is over.] You may be working in any area of database or related technology and applications. Please see the list of topics for the VLDB 2003 Conference call. These give some ideas on area but are not meant to be limiting.

Please submit a 5 page description of your PhD work (in PDF format only) by April 25, 2003. Please submit to vldb2003@inf.uni-konstanz.de. The accepted papers will be published online as a technical report with an ISBN and so they may subsequently be cited. The contact author of submissions must be a PhD student, coauthorship by their supervisor is permitted. Please include a formal statement of your PhD student status with your submission.

Notifications of acceptance have been sent out on Tuesday, June 17, 2003.

Workshop Format

The PhD Workshop will be held on Friday (September 12, 15:00-19:00h) and Saturday (September 13, 09:00-17:00h), immediately following the VLDB Conference, on the campus of the Freie Universität Berlin. A social event (BBQ) is planned for Friday evening.

Program Committee

• Henk Ernst Blok (U Twente, The Netherlands)
• Tiziana Catarci (U Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
• Torsten Grust (U Konstanz, Germany)
• Arantza Illarramendi (U del Pais Vasco, Spain)
• Maurice van Keulen (U Twente, The Netherlands)
• Hans-Joachim Klein (U Kiel, Germany)
• Volker Markl (IBM Almaden, USA)
• Holger Meyer (U Rostock, Germany)
• Alexandra Poulovassilis (U London, Birkbeck College, UK)
• Elke Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Inst, USA)
• Marc H. Scholl (U Konstanz, Germany)
• Thomas Schwentick (U Marburg, Germany)

Contact Information

Details will be made available on this web site.

Organizers (e-mail: vldb2003@inf.uni-konstanz.de)

• Marc H. Scholl (U Konstanz, Germany)
• Torsten Grust (U Konstanz, Germany)