Ph.D. Symposium
Snowbird, Utah, USA June 23rd 2014
9:00 Opening
9:10 Keynote
"How to do Research for Fun and Profit?"
Dr. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)
10:10-10:30 am Coffee break
10:30-12:00 pm Query Language
Persistent Functional Languages: Toward Functional Relational Databases
Wevers, Lesley
Mentor: Prof. James Cheney
Data exchange for document-centric XML
Sherkhonov, Evgeny
Mentor: Prof. Pablo Barcelo
Toward Unstructured Mesh Algebra and Query Language
Rezaei Mahdiraji, Alireza
Mentor: Prof. Gautam Das
12:00-13:30 Group Lunch
1:30pm-3:00pm Stream and Scalable Data Processing
Data Stream Processing in Dynamic and Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Networks
Michelsen, Timo
Mentor: Prof. Dirk Van Gucht
Efficient Delegation Protocols for Data Streams
Prakash, Ved
Mentor: Prof. Lei Chen
Spatio-temporal Hadoop: Towards Flexible Spatio-temporal Processing using MapReduce
Eldawy, Ahmed
Mentor: Prof. Mentor: Dan Suciu
3:00-3:30 Coffee break
3:30-5:30 Query Processing
Data-driven Recommendations for Exploratory Query Formulation
Nargesian, Fatemeh
Mentor: Prof. Michael Benedikt
Query Answering over Ontologies specified via Database Dependencies
Civili, Cristina
Mentor: Prof. Marcelo Arenas
Automated Schema Design for NoSQL Databases
Mior, Michael
Mentor: Prof. Maurizio Lenzerini