The Lowell
Database Research Self-Assessment Meeting

Lowell Massachusetts, 4-6 May 2003

Agenda

Sunday, May 4th

 

7:30 - 10:30 Gong Show, Hans Schek, Chairman.

(5 minutes per participant to present 2 ideas you would like to see somebody work on that you are not working on -- you can't tout your own horn) 

Each name is hyperlinked to that person’s presentation:

Serge Abiteboul,,  Rakesh Agrawal, Phil Bernstein,  Mike Carey, Stefano Ceri, Bruce Croft,  David DeWitt,  Mike Franklin,  Hector Garcia Molina, Dieter Gawlick,  Jim Gray,  Laura Haas, Alon Halevy,  Joe Hellerstein and 2,  Masaru Kitsuregawa (in absentia)  Yannis Ioannidis,   Martin Kersten,  Mike Lesk,  David Maier, Jeff Naughton, Michael Pazzani, Hans Schek,  Timos Sellis,  Avi Silberschatz,  Rick Snodgrass, Mike Stonebraker,  Jeff Ullman,  Gerhard Weikum, Jennifer Widom,  Stan Zdonik. 

 

 

Monday, May 5th

 

9:00 - 10:00 How are IR and structured data going to get together?

Bruce Croft What is IR and Gerhard Weikum DB+IR

Not clear how to do web crawling of structured data.  Not clear how two communities can leverage each other.  Where do we go from here?   Is semi-structured data the answer?

 

10:00 - 11:00.  Infoglut

Hector Garcia-Molina and Mike Lesk (Info Glut)

What do we do about the overwhelming amount of information that shows up on our desktop.  How do we pick a needle out of a haystack?  Is MyGoogle the answer?  Other standards on the horizon?  Super-duper UDDI?   

 

11:30 - 12:30 What is the future of XML? 

Serge Abiteboul and Jennifer Widom  -- XML

Will it be anything more than an intergalactic data interchange language?  What about Xquery and XSD? Is there any research here?    

 

1:00 - 2:00.  Will federated databases ever go anywhere? 

Mike Carey and Laura Haas: Why Federated Databases Can’t Succeed

Federated data bases have never gone anywhere.  Moreover, they are currently used primarily as ETL tools.  Will Liquid Data go anywhere?  Is there any hope  for dealing with semantic heterogeneity. Is there anything to peer-to-peer data bases that is not in federated data bases?  

 

2:00 - 3:00 Data Mining                 

Rakesh Agrawal and Jeff Ullman – Data Mining

Is there anything here, other than 2nd rate statistics?  How do you answer the query "tell me something interesting, that I don't know already"?  

 

3:30 - 4:30  Stream processing

Dave Maier and Stan Zdonik -- Streams

Is there any meat here?  Why can’t this whole area be done by traditional middleware?  Why are the current proposals so complex?  Does anybody really need quality of service.  How do you support mixed environments where some data is transactional and some can be forgotten?  

 

7:30 Previous Meetings Reprise

Dave DeWitt Laguna Beach Reprise, Hans Schek LagunaExtract

Visions

Hans Schek  HyperDatbase Infrastructure

 

Tuesday, May 6th

 

8:00 Visualization

Mike Stonebraker

8:55 Personal Database

Gerhard Weikum Personal Databases, Jim Gray Personal_Memex,  Martin Kersten  Organic DBs

 

9:30 - 10:15 no knobs

Dave Dewitt and Dieter Gawlick

How can DBMSs be made self managing?   Current system software is impossibly hard to use.  How do we make systems self-correcting? 

 

10:15 - 11:15:  Trustworthy computing and databases. 

Joe Hellerstein, Rakesh Agrawal, Privacy 

Security issues are largely being ignored by the DBMS community.  Do we have anything to contribute here? What about the ultimate trust guarantee – I will never lose your data. 

 

11:15-12:00 General report discussion, Report organization (Moderator: Stonebraker)