VLDB'99 Final Programme

Time	Fintry Auditorium	Pentland Auditorium	Sidlaw Auditorium	Harris Room
Tuesday 7th September
09:15	Welcome Ceremony - Pentland Auditorium
09:30	10 Year Award Talk - Pentland Auditorium C. Mohan, IBM Almaden Research Center Repeating History Beyond ARIES
10:30	Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
11:00	Paper Session 1 Aggregation, Approximation & Explanation	Tutorial 1 Semistructured Data to XML	Paper Session 2 Main-Memory Caching
12:30	Lunch Break
14:30	Paper Session 3 Changes and Temporal Data	Tutorial 1 continued. Semistructured Data to XML	Paper Session 4 Distributed Databases
16:00	Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
16:30	Paper Session 5 Data Mining Algorithms	Industry Session 1 Data Management in a Networked World	Tutorial 2 Metasearch Engines
18:00	Reception - Strathblane Hall
Wednesday 8th September
09:00	Paper Session 6 Data Mining & Pattern Extraction	Industry Session 2 Microsoft SQL Server Innovations	Tutorial 2 continued Metasearch Engines	Scheduled 45-minute Demos
10:30	Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
11:00	Keynote Address - Pentland Auditorium Dr Rudolf Munz, SAP AG Usage Scenarios for DBMS
12:30	Lunch Break
14:30	Paper Session 7 Understanding DB Performance	Tutorial 3 A Database Centric Update on CORBA	Paper Session 8 Semistructured Data & XML Queries
16:00	Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
16:30	Paper Session 9 Caching Techniques	Tutorial 3 continued A Database Centric Update on CORBA	Paper Session 10 Document Classification & IR
19:30	Scottish Evening - Assembly Rooms

Time	Fintry Auditorium	Pentland Auditorium	Sidlaw Auditorium	Harris Room
Thursday 9th September
09:00	Paper Session 11 Partial Query Evaluation	Tutorial 4 Using SQLJ	Paper Session 12 Integrating Heterogeneous Databases	Scheduled 45-minute Demos
10:30	Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
11:00	Paper Session 13 Implementing Advanced Data Models	Tutorial 4 continued Using SQLJ	Paper Session 14 High-dimensional Queries
12:30	Lunch Break
14:30	Paper Session 15 Extending SQL with User Defined types	Panel Active Storage Hierarchy, Database Systems and Applications	Tutorial 5 Design & Perception in Information Visualisation
16:00	Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
16:30	Paper Session 16 High-performance Application Support	Industrial Session 3 Data Warehousing: Experiences, Challenges, and Directions	Tutorial 5 continued Design & Perception in Information Visualisation
19:00	Conference Banquet - Royal Museum of Scotland
Friday 10th September
09:00	Paper Session 17 Databases and the Web	Paper Session 18 Query Systems	Paper Session 19 Aggregation Algorithms
10:30	Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
11:00	Keynote Address - Pentland Auditorium Dr Stephen DeRose, Chief Scientist, Inso Corporation & Adjunct Associate Professor, Brown University What Do Those Weird XML Types Want Anyway?
12:30	Closing Ceremony - Pentland Auditorium