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EDBT 2006 than just the core conference itself. EDBT 2006
will be accompanied by nine pre and post conference workshops.
Please refer to the workshop schedule below to learn about the
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Registration for workshops is open. Please use the EDBT 2006 online registration forms.
Note:
Attendees of the EDBT 2006 conference will receive a
discount on workshop registration fees.
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EDBT 2006 PhD Workshop
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| Sunday, March 26, 2006 (pre-conference) |
The EDBT Ph.D. Workshop is intended to bring together
Ph.D. students working on topics related to the EDBT conference
series. The workshop will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to
present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in a
constructive and international atmosphere.
The workshop will be accompanied by prominent professors and
researchers in the field of database technology. These
accompanying professors will participate actively and contribute
to the discussions.
The workshop language is English.
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DataX'06 -- Database Technologies for Handling XML Information on the Web
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| Sunday, March 26, 2006 (pre-conference) |
Today's horizons of the database field appear
without limits. 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 few
samples of the great challenges that drive research and development of
the next generation of database technology. Our belief is that XML is
one of the main means towards this new generation. Following the
experience of the dataX workshop at EDBT 2004, the 2006 edition of the
workshop will discuss new and interesting applications and
integrations of XML and database technologies.
The goal of the
workshop is to bring together academics, practitioners, users, and
vendors to discuss the recent achievements, the relevant problems and
open issues related to the combination of database and XML
technologies in all these environments. The workshop will provide the
opportunity to debate new issues and directions for research and
development work in the future.
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Incompleteness and Inconsistency in Databases
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| Sunday, March 26, 2006 (pre-conference) |
Database textbooks generally explain that integrity constraints should
be satisfied at all times because they capture the set of all legal
databases. Nevertheless, data inconsistency is a phenomenon that often
occurs in practice. The most common reason for inconsistency is the
need to integrate distributed, independent data sources: different
databases that are consistent by themselves can contain conflicting
tuples. The conflicts are revealed only when the tuples are brought
together in an integrated database. In such situations, it is of
practical importance to know how to deal with violations of integrity
constraints. In general, there is no single best way to restore
consistency, leaving us with a multitude of possible repairs. Even
when we do not know the right repair, we can still try to prevent
query answers from containing incorrect tuples. This idea is known as
consistent query answering (CQA).
A similar concept arises in the context of incomplete databases: when an incompletely
specified database can be completed in more than one way, we may want to restrict
query answers to contain only the tuples that are in the query answer in each possible
completion. Incomplete databases can arise, for example, when the data exchange rules
between a source and a target database only partially determine the target. Also, an
incomplete database may play a role similar to a set of repairs, representing different
ways of solving existing data conflicts.
Another related area is that of uncertainty handling, where numeric probability
factors are associated with data. Such data represent observations and arise in sensor
networks or distributed databases. For example, the position of a moving object can
only be ascertained with some degree of probability.
This EDBT workshop is a new opportunity to bring together database researchers
working on inconsistency, incompleteness, and uncertainty to review recent progress
and outline future research directions. The focus of the workshop will be primarily
on semantic and computational issues arising in the representation and querying of
inconsistent, incomplete, and uncertain databases.
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Information Integration in Healthcare Applications (IIHA)
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| Sunday, March 26, 2006 (pre-conference) |
Healthcare information systems continuously have to be adapted to
new requirements, standards, laws, etc. Cost pressure is massively
increasing, and at the same time, system complexity is
growing. This constantly changing environment is also
characterized by highly interdisciplinary processes which depend
on timely providing patient related information at the point of
care in order to prevent medical errors. In addition, medical
knowledge should be provided in a way that enables effective
decision support for clinicians. Huge amounts of data with
increasingly complex data structures are created in the course of
this process, and legacy systems have to be integrated. The core
challenge is to establish flexible and responsive IT
infrastructures that are capable of effectively adapting to
changing requirements.
Information integration thus is a
key factor for healthcare applications, as most medical
applications are determined by a huge variety of heterogeneous and
independent health care institutions that have to share data. The
continuity of medical processes has to be improved, and medical
pathways will play an important role as integration backbone
within institutions and across institutional borders.
In
order to ensure efficient and high-quality patient treatment, data
have to be exchanged between participating systems in a consistent
and appropriate way. Various aspects have to be considered in
order to support health care professionals in their clinical
routine work. In addition, scientists need support for their
(distributed) research.
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IFIP Workshop on Semantics of a Networked World
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| Thursday, March 30, 2006 (post-conference) |
The explosion in information exchange fostered
by the success of the Web has led to the identification
of semantics as a critical issue in the development
of services providing data and information
to users and applications worldwide. This
newly designated conference series on "Semantics
for the Networked World" unifies into a single
framework the previous series on "Database
Semantics" and "Visual Database Systems" that
the IFIP WG 2.6 has been offering since 1985.
The series intends to continue the exploration
of novel emerging trends that raise challenging
research issues related to the understanding
and management of semantics. Each conference
edition, in addition to soliciting contributions
of generic relevance in the semantics domain,
will focus on a specific theme that conveys
exciting promises of innovation.
The theme for the 2006 edition is Semantics of sequence and time
dependent data Sequence and time dependent data are distinguished by
the important role played by order, in modelling and querying the data.
For example, monitoring dynamic phenomena produces data that arrives as
a stream of temporal observations, whose querying and analysis make
essential use of its temporal or sequential nature. Data warehouses
give considerable prominence to the temporal dimension for decision
support. Applications in the biological and financial domains naturally
model their data using sequences, and the mining of such data make
critical use of this property.
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Query Languages and Query Processing (QLQP-2006)
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| Thursday-Friday, March 30-31, 2006 (post-conference) |
The development of database query languages, the investigation of
semantics for query langauges as well as query processing and query
optimization are established and permanent research areas. The
development of new data models usually causes the development of new
query languages, new requirements in application domains require an
on-going improvement of existing query languages. The ever-growing
amount of data as well as new architectures for database and
information systems continously causes the development of new and of
more sophisticated query processing and optimization techniques.
Examples of such new directions range from new operators like ranking
and approximations to translation techniques like XQuery to SQL and
new query models such as continuous queries on streams and adaptive
techniques for Grid and P2P systems.
The goal of this workshop is to foster the discussion on new challenges and
direction of query languages and processing for the next decade.
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2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Information Management (PIM 2006)
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| Thursday, March 30, 2006 (post-conference) |
The first EDBT Workshop on Pervasive Data Management was held
successfully at EDBT 2004. Since then, interest in pervasive
information management has become even more pronounced both in
academia and industry. The numbers of mobile devices in use keep
growing at tremendous rates. On the one hand, this is true for rather
powerful devices like PDAs and smartphones, on the other hand, very
lightweight devices like sensors and RFID tags are starting to be
deployed in considerable numbers. This development opens the doors for
new application areas where information stemming from a multitude of
different sources is used to satisfy user demands. However, data
management for these applications is a complex task since it has to
deal with the mobility of users, devices and data as well as the
specifics of wireless connectivity and the resource restrictions many
of these devices exhibit. Therefore, new solutions that consider all
these dimensions are needed for pervasive data management.
Information becomes ubiquitous, highly distributed and at the same
time accessible from everywhere at any time. However, accessing it
takes place in highly dynamic and instable networks often using
devices with limited I/O-capabilities and restricted power
resources. Information obtained from different sources, among them
sensors, needs to be integrated. From the user's point of view, all
these difficulties should be invisible. Information access should be
as similar to the one known from the desktop environment as possible.
This workshop will be a forum for presenting and discussing ideas,
challenges, and opportunities for data management and data access
technology in pervasive information systems. New and existing concepts
and techniques shall be considered in the light of the rapidly
increasing mobility of users and the great advances in system
infrastructures, mobile devices, and sensor technologies. Research
papers presenting theoretical results, perspective solutions, and
practical developments are welcome. Position papers are also welcome
and encouraged.
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International Workshop on Pattern Representation
and Management (PaRMa'06) |
| Thursday, March 30, 2006 (post-conference) |
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The vast volumes of data in conventional form, in documents and in
multimedia files demand for methods for the discovery of useful
patterns from them. Such methods from the domain of knowledge
discovery deliver patterns in the form of association rules,
classifiers, clusters or time series. Similarly to the need for
maintaining, retrieving and updating data, there is the same paramount
need to administer patterns: To store them in databases in an
efficient way and to provide appropriate query languages for
retrieving them; to update them as new data reveal population drifts
and to identify such population drifts; to design methods for the
presentation, evaluation and comparison of patterns. In order to
efficiently and effectively deal with patterns, academic groups and
industrial consortiums have devoted efforts towards the modeling,
storage, retrieval, analysis and manipulation of patterns with results
mainly in the area of standards, inductive databases and pattern-base
management systems. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers
and practitioners in the area of pattern representation and
management.
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Reactivity on the Web
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| Friday, March 31, 2006 (post-conference) |
Reactivity on the Web, the ability to detect simple and composite
events that occur on the Web and respond in a timely manner, has
recently emerged as an issue of concern in Web and Semantic Web
circles such as the W3C and several international
Semantic Web research initiatives such as REWERSE. Although a common perception of the Web is that
of a distributed information system giving rise to access data in a
read only manner, many Web-based systems need to have the capability
to update data found at (local or remote) Web resources, to exchange
information about events (such as executed updates), and to detect and
react not only to simple events but also to complex, real-life
situations. The issue of updating data plays an important role, for
example, in e-commerce systems receiving and processing buying or
reservation orders, and e-learning systems selecting and delivering
teaching materials depending on the students' performances on
tests. The issues of notifying, detecting, and reacting upon events of
interest are now beginning to play an increasingly important role
within business strategy on the Web and event-driven applications are
being more widely deployed: Terms such as zero latency enterprise, the
real-time enterprise and on-demand computing are being used to
describe a vision in which events recognised anywhere within a
business, can immediately activate appropriate actions across the
entire enterprise and beyond. Businesses that are able to react to
events quickly and take appropriate decisions are likely to have a
competitive advantage.
The issue of automatic reaction in response to events of interest has
its roots in the field of active databases; in particular, the issue
of detecting composite events has received considerable
attention. However, differences between (generally centralised) active
databases and the Web, where a central clock and a central management
are missing, give reasons for developing new approaches. Moreover,
approaches that cope with existing and upcoming Semantic Web
technologies (by gradually evolving together with these technologies)
are more likely to leverage the Semantic Web endeavour. Along this
line, of crucial importance for the Web and the Semantic Web is the
lightness of technologies' usage (in particular the languages' usage)
that should be approachable also by non-programmers.
The
objectives of the workshop 'Reactivity on the Web' are to support and
disseminate ongoing research work on Web reactivity, but also to offer
a forum for communicating visionary ideas that could entail
enhancements of the actual Web with (re)active capabilities.
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