VLDB'99 Final Programme

Time
Fintry Auditorium
Pentland Auditorium
Sidlaw Auditorium
Harris Room
Tuesday 7th September
09:15
Welcome Ceremony - Pentland Auditorium
 
09:30
10 Year Award Talk - Pentland Auditorium
C. Mohan, IBM Almaden Research Center
Repeating History Beyond ARIES
10:30
Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
11:00
Paper Session 1 Aggregation, Approximation & Explanation
Tutorial 1 Semistructured Data to XML
Paper Session 2 Main-Memory Caching
12:30
Lunch Break
14:30
Paper Session 3 Changes and Temporal Data
Tutorial 1 continued. Semistructured Data to XML
Paper Session 4 Distributed Databases
16:00
Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
16:30
Paper Session 5 Data Mining Algorithms
Industry Session 1 Data Management in a Networked World
Tutorial 2 Metasearch Engines
18:00
Reception - Strathblane Hall
Wednesday 8th September
09:00
Paper Session 6 Data Mining & Pattern Extraction
Industry Session 2 Microsoft SQL Server Innovations
Tutorial 2 continued Metasearch Engines

 
 
 
 

Scheduled
45-minute Demos

10:30
Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
11:00
Keynote Address - Pentland Auditorium
Dr Rudolf Munz, SAP AG
Usage Scenarios for DBMS
12:30
Lunch Break
14:30
Paper Session 7 Understanding DB Performance
Tutorial 3
A Database Centric Update on CORBA
Paper Session 8 Semistructured Data & XML Queries
16:00
Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
16:30
Paper Session 9 Caching Techniques
Tutorial 3 continued
A Database Centric Update on CORBA
Paper Session 10 Document Classification & IR
19:30
Scottish Evening - Assembly Rooms
 

 
Time
Fintry Auditorium
Pentland Auditorium
Sidlaw Auditorium
Harris Room
Thursday 9th September
09:00
Paper Session 11 Partial Query Evaluation
Tutorial 4
Using SQLJ
Paper Session 12 Integrating Heterogeneous Databases

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Scheduled 
45-minute Demos

10:30
Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
11:00
Paper Session 13 Implementing Advanced Data Models
Tutorial 4 continued
Using SQLJ
Paper Session 14 High-dimensional Queries
12:30
Lunch Break
14:30
Paper Session 15 Extending SQL with User Defined types

Panel
Active Storage Hierarchy, Database Systems and Applications

Tutorial 5
Design & Perception in Information Visualisation
16:00
Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
16:30
Paper Session 16 High-performance Application Support
Industrial Session 3 Data Warehousing: Experiences, Challenges, and Directions
Tutorial 5 continued
Design & Perception in Information Visualisation
19:00
Conference Banquet - Royal Museum of Scotland
Friday 10th September
09:00
Paper Session 17 Databases and the Web
Paper Session 18 Query Systems
Paper Session 19 Aggregation Algorithms
 
10:30
Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
11:00
Keynote Address - Pentland Auditorium
Dr Stephen DeRose, Chief Scientist, Inso Corporation & Adjunct Associate Professor, Brown University
What Do Those Weird XML Types Want Anyway?
12:30
Closing Ceremony - Pentland Auditorium