The 4th International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML Information on the Web (DataX'09)
Collocated with EDBT/ICDT 2009. March 22, 2009, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Following the main themes of the EDBT conference, data management constitutes the essential enabling technology for scientific, engineering, business, and social communities. Peer-to-peer architectures, the Grid, personal information systems, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, networked sensors, biomedical informatics, virtual digital libraries, semantic virtual communities, database services and trust management are examples of the great challenges that drive research and development of the next generation of database technology. Our belief is that XML is the main means towards this new generation of data management systems. Following the experience of previous editions of DataX, in DataX 2009 we will discuss new and interesting applications, and the integration of XML and database technologies.
The goal of the workshop is to bring together academics, practitioners, users and vendors to discuss recent achievements, relevant problems and open issues on the boundary of database and XML technologies in all these environments. The workshop will provide the opportunity to debate new issues and outline directions for research and development.
Topics
We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Use of XML in Dataspaces
- Methodology and tools for XML schema and DTD design
- Interchange and integration of XML data
- Semantic interoperability on the Web
- XML retrieval in P2P systems
- Metrics and quality measures for XML documents and schemas
- Storage and compression of XML data
- Indexing and retrieval of XML data
- Query processing over XML data
- Benchmarks and performance using XML/Web-databases
- Security and privacy of XML exchange
- XML for bioinformatics
- Outsourced XML databases
- Convergence of XML and other disciplines (like decision support, information retrieval, and Semantic Web)
Workshop Program Committee
- Fuat Akal, Functional Genomics Center Zurich (Switzerland)
- Zohra Bellahsene, liRMM (France)
- Rafael Berlanga, Universitat Jaume I (Spain)
- Vanessa Braganholo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Stéphane Bressan, NUS (Singapore)
- Dario Colazzo, Université Paris Sud (France)
- Elena Ferrari, Universitá dell'Insubria (Italy)
- Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH (Greece)
- Minos Garofalakis, Technical University of Crete (Greece)
- Sven Helmer, University of London (UK)
- Ela Hunt, Strathclyde University (UK)
- H. V. Jagadish, University of Michigan (USA)
- Torsten Grust, Universität Tübingen (Germany)
- Anna Maddalena, University of Genova (Italy)
- Federica Mandreoli, Universita' di Modena (Italy)
- Maarten Marx, University van Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- Paolo Missier, University of Manchester (UK)
- Barbara Oliboni, Universita' di Verona (Italy)
- Elisa Quintarelli, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
- Carlo Sartiani, University of Pisa (Italy)
- Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck-Institut (Germany)
- Michael Schrefl, Johannes Kepler Universität (Austria)
- Oded Shmueli, Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
- Martin Theobald, University of Stanford (USA)
- Athena I. Vakali, University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
- Emmanuel Waller, Université Paris Sud (France)
- Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)
Workshop Co-Chairs
- Marco Mesiti, University of Milano (Italy)
- Ismael Sanz, Universitat Jaume I (Spain)