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Workshop on Foundations of Databases and the Web
In honor to Alberto Mendelzon
San Rafael Glacier, Chile - November 6-10, 2006
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Workshop Program

Tuesday Nov. 7

9:00 Welcome:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates & Mariano Consens on Alberto Mendelzon
9:15 - 10:15 Keynote Talk 1
Moderator: Leopoldo Bertossi
New Challenges in Schema Mapping and Data Exchange
Renee Miller
17:15 - 20:30 Session 1
Moderator: Alejandro Vaisman
  • Data Exchange with Arithmetic Comparisons
    Foto Afrati
  • Querying incomplete data by query rewriting in real-world cases
    Andrea Cali
  • Semirings for Incomplete Databases, Bag Semantics, and Provenance
    Val Tannen
  • A First-Order Semantics for the SQL Standard with Nulls
    Loreto Bravo
(15 minutes Break)

Session 2
Moderator: John Mylopoulos
  • A Framework for Querying Pedigree Data
    Meral Ozsoyoglu
  • Valid Query Answering in XML Databases
    Jan Chomicki
  • The Consistency Extractor System
    Monica Caniupan

Wednesday Nov. 8

9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Talk 2
Moderator: Mariano Consens
A Problem in Entity Resolution
Jeff Ullman
16:15 - 20:30 Session 3
Moderator: Peter Buneman
  • Management of translations of schemas and databases in a model generic framework
    Paolo Atzeni
  • MOMENT, a framework for model management
    Isidro Ramos
  • DEX: A tool for entity investigation in web DBMSs
    Josep Larriba
  • A Strategy for Allowing Meaningful and Comparable Scores in Approximate Matching
    Carlos Heuser
(15 minuntes Break)

Session 4
Moderator: Victor Vianu
  • A Framework for Describing XML using a Summary Lattice
    Mariano Consens
  • Knowledge Revision and Arbitration
    Peter Revesz
  • The Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL
    Claudio Gutierrez
  • Detecting Privacy Infractions: A Framework and Methodology
    Jacob Slonim

Thursday Nov. 9

15:45 -20:00 Session 5
Moderator: Enrico Franconi
  • Towards Semantically Structured Information Retrieval
    Hugo Zaragoza
  • Effective and Efficient Classification on a Search Engine Model
    Andrei Broder
  • From Web Services to Converged Services; From Data Access to Data Interpretation
    Rick Hull
(15 minuntes Break)

Session 6
Moderator: David Toman
  • Temporal logics in querying XML
    Leonid Libkin
  • Fixed point and automata characterizations of nested words
    Pablo Barcelo
  • Capturing Higher Order Logics with First Order Lindstrom Quantifiers
    Jose Turull
  • View-Based Security in Databases
    Leo Bertossi
  • Process Mining for discovering frequent execution patterns and inducing workflow schemes
    Domenico Sacca