Como Workshop in 2009
Search Computing Challenges and Directions
"Searching for the future"
Como (Italy), Società del Casinò di Como, June 17-19: A joint workshop that will bring together the participants to two IDEAS projects
- SeCo, lead by Stefano Ceri at Politecnico di Milano
- SMSCom, lead by Carlo Ghezzi at Politecnico di Milano
Workshop's results will be described in the book "Search Computing Challenges and Directions", S. Ceri and M. Brambilla Eds., Springer-Verlag LNCS.
Program:
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June 17 |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | IntroductionIntroduction to the two ERC projects - Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano) -SECO: Search Computing (ppt file) - Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano)- SMSCom: Self-Managing Situated Computing d Computing |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffe break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Joint ERC presentations - Jeff Magee (Imperial College, UK) - Engineering Self-Managed Systems - Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona) - The Next Generation of Search |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:45 | Rank Aggregation - Ihab Ilyas (University of Waterloo):Supporting Ranking in (Uncertain) Database Systems - Davide Martinenghi (Politecnico di Milano): Cost-Aware Top-K Join Algorithms - Adnan Abid (Politecnico di Milano): Evolutionary Techniques for Join Strategies |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 - 17:45 | Service Registration and WebSite Wrapping - Georg Gottlob (Oxford University) -Web Data Extraction: The Lixto Project and Future Plans - Alessandro Campi (Politecnico di Milano) - Service Marts: a Service Framework for Search Computing |
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June 18 |
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| 09:00 - 10:30 | Joint ERC presentations - Norman Paton (University of Manchester) - Dataspaces and Search Computing: New Paradigms or Step Changes - Dick Taylor (UC Irvine, USA) - Runtime software adaptability Joint Session with SMScom (2 x 45min talks) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffe break |
| 11:00 - 12:45 | Service composition - Fabio Casati (University of Trento) -Universal Mashup Languages - Daniele Braga (Politecnico di Milano) -Join methods and query planning for Search Computing (ppt file) - Michael Grossniklaus (Politecnico di Milano) - A producer-consumer model of query execution |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Search computing architectures - Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, Paris) - Of Distributed Queries: Models and Systems - Marco Brambilla (Politecnico di Milano) - Liquid queries |
| Evening | Joint ERC recreational activities: a walk on the hills around Como/Brunate. The idea is to reach Brunate by funicular, hike from Brunate to the top of Monte Boletto, which enjoys a great view of the lake. We will have dinner at: |
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June 19 |
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| 09:00 - 10:30 | Business Plan and Technology Watch - Tommaso Buganza (DIG, Politecnico di Milano) and Emanuele Della Valle (DEI, Politecnico di Milano) - Technology Watch for Search Computing |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffe break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Priorities in SeCo Research Moderator: Piero Fraternali |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Tutorial - Florian Daniel (University of Trento) - Web Technologies |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Workplan - Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano) - Workplan, Workshop Conclusions and Wrap-up |