VLDB'99 Outline Provisional 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
30-minute Demos
10:30
Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
11:00
Keynote Address - Pentland Auditorium 
Dr Karl-Heinz Hess, SAP AG
SAPNet - The Infrastructure for Business on the Web
12:30
Lunch Break
14:30
Paper Session 7 Understanding DB Performance
Tutorial 3 
Using SQLJ
Paper Session 8 Semistructured Data & XML Queries
16:00
Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
16:30
Paper Session 9 Caching Techniques
Tutorial 3 continued
Using SQLJ
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 
A Database Centric Update on CORBA
Paper Session 12 Integrating Heterogeneous Databases
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Scheduled 
30-minute Demos
10:30
Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
11:00
Paper Session 13 Implementing Advanced Data Models
Tutorial 4 continued 
A Database Centric Update on CORBA
Paper Session 14 High-dimensional Queries
12:30
Lunch Break
14:30
Paper Session 15 Extending SQL with User Defined types 
Industrial Session 3 Industrial Session On Data Warehouses
Tutorial 5 
Design & Perception in Information Visualisation
16:00
Tea/Coffee - Lomond Suite
16:30
Paper Session 16 High-performance Application Support
Panel 
Active Storage Hierarchy, Database Systems and Applications
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 Aggregation Algorithms
Paper Session 19 Query Systems
  
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