Joint EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. Workshop 2009

Electronic Workshop Proceedings

Welcome to the Proceedings of the

Joint EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. Workshop 2009

Collocated with EDBT/ICDT 2009. Sunday, March 22, 2009, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Workshop homepage




"Remember, the Ph.D. Workshop is intended to encourage Ph.D students, not to discourage them!"
Freely adapted from Theo Haerder.

Here you will find the proceedings of the Joint EDBT/ICDT 2009 Ph.D. Workshop. The workshop is held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) and the 12th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) on March 22, 2009, in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Starting with this edition the former EDBT Ph.D. Workshop is run under the flag of both conferences EDBT and ICDT, resulting in the new name Joint EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. Workshop. We hope that the new Ph.D. workshop will continue the success of its predecessors!
Continuing in its tradition, the Ph.D. Workshop brings together Ph.D. students in the field of database technology outside of the EDBT/ICDT conference series. It offers Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in a constructive and international environment.

Thanks to the generous support of Yahoo! Inc. we are able to award a price for best submission for the second time in the history of the Ph.D. Workshop! The prize is intended to support promising Ph.D. candidates by their ongoing research and allow them to attend other major DB conferences.

A few facts & figures: The Program Committee, comprised of 39 members from 15 countries, evaluated 12 submissions (received from 6 countries). After a careful review process (each submission was evaluated by at least three committee members), 7 submissions were selected for presentation at the Workshop.

The Joint EDBT/ICDT 2009 Ph.D. Workshop was made possible through the cooperation of many different organizations and individuals. In particular, we would like to express our sincere thanks to the following institutions that actively supported this event:

For further details please take a look at the sponsor section.

We would also like to thank the members of the Program Committee, as well as the Local Organization Committee, for their professional work and time commitment. Very special thanks go to Manos Papagelis (FORTH-ICS & University of Toronto) and Dimitris Plexousakis (FORTH-ICS & University of Crete) for operating Confious, the submission and review management system that worked flawlessly. For his gracious help and kind advice during the workshop preparation, we are particularly indebted to the EDBT 2009 General Chair Boris Novikov (Univ. of St.-Petersburg, Russia). Last but not least, we would like to thank Joachim W. Schmidt (Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg, Germany) for giving the keynote address.


Sascha Mueller
Guillaume Raschia
Dmitry Shaporenkov

Topics of Interest

As for the EDBT and the ICDT conferences series, all topics from the field of database technology and theorie are of interest for the Ph.D. Workshop. These topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Active Databases
  • Advanced Query Processing and Optimization
  • Ambient-aware Database Applications
  • Approximate Queries
  • Authorization and Security
  • Autonomic Databases
  • Biological Databases and Bioinformatics
  • Component-based Information Systems
  • Constraint and Rule Management
  • Data Management in Computer Games
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Data Models and Database Design
  • Data Warehousing and OLAP
  • Database Applications and Experiences
  • Database Performance and Benchmarks
  • E-Commerce, Workflow, and Databases
  • Federated Databases, Middleware, and Interoperability
  • Knowledge Management Systems
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Imprecise and Uncertain Information
  • Indexing, Access Methods, Data Structures
  • Information Integration Methods
  • IT-Infrastructure Management and Enterprise Modeling
  • Legacy Databases
  • Logic and Databases
  • Medical Databases and Data Management
  • Mobile Computing and Databases
  • Multimedia Databases
  • Object-Relational Database Systems
  • Parallel and Distributed Databases
  • Peer-to-Peer and Networked Databases
  • Privacy Techniques for Databases
  • Query Languages and User Interfaces
  • Real-Time Database Systems
  • Replication, Caching, Materialized Views
  • Scientific and Statistical Databases
  • Self-healing Databases
  • Semantic Web Databases and Ontologies
  • Semi-structured Data, Metadata, and XML
  • Spatial and Temporal Databases
  • Stream Processing, Continuous Queries, and
    Sensor Databases
  • Text Storage and Retrieval
  • Transactions and Recovery
  • Trustworthy Databases
  • World-Wide Web and Databases

Workshop Program Committee

  • Dmitry Barashev (Russia)
  • Michael Benedikt (UK)
  • Michela Bertolotto (Ireland)
  • Angela Bonifati (Italy)
  • Stefano Ceri (Italy)
  • Olivier Cure (France)
  • Suzanne Embury (UK)
  • Georgios Evangelidis (Greece)
  • Ada Waichee Fu (Hong Kong)
  • Minos Garofalakis (USA)
  • Maxim Grinev (Russia)
  • Holger Guenzel (Germany)
  • Wook-Shin Han (Korea)
  • Theo Haerder (Germany)
  • Jan Hidders (Belgium)
  • Annika Hinze (New Zealand)
  • Milena Ivanova (Netherlands)
  • Stefan Jablonski (Germany)
  • Leonid Kalinichenko (Russia)
  • Carl-Christian Kanne (Germany)
  • Wolfgang Lehner (Germany)
  • Wolfgang Lindner (Germany)
  • Marco Mesiti (Italy)
  • Mohamed Mokbel (USA)
  • Erich Neuhold (Germany)
  • Boris Novikov (Russia)
  • Beng Chin Ooi (Singapore)
  • Dimitris Plexousakis (Greece)
  • Andreas Reuter (Germany)
  • Joachim W. Schmidt (Germany)
  • Marc H. Scholl (Germany)
  • Hans-Werner Sehring (Germany)
  • Andrey Simanovsky (Russia)
  • Guenther Sprecht (Austria)
  • Athena Vakali (Greece)
  • Patrick Valduriez (France)
  • Jan van den Bussche (Belgium)
  • Pavel Velikhov (Russia)
  • Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Japan)

Organization Committee