• 6/12/98

  Introduction.

• 13/12/98

  Computing Iceberg Queries Efficiently

  M. Fang, N. Shivakumar, H. Garcia-Molina, R. Motwani, J.D. Ullman.
  VLDB 1998. See also Technical Report
  Lecturer: Alon Schclar (shekler@math).

  • A summary and a presentation.

  Partitioning-based Iceberg Queries

  Yossi Matias and Eran Segal.
  Guest Lecturer: Eran Segal

  20/12/98

  No classes - Happy Hanukkah!

  27/12/98

  Video Trails: Representing and Visualizing Structure in Video Sequences

  Vikrant Kobla, David Doermann, and Christos Faloutsos

  Proc. of ACM Multimedia, pp. 335-346, 1997.

  See also Video Summarization by Curve Simplification

  Daniel DeMenthon, Vikrant Kobla and David Doermann, ACM Multimedia 98.

  Lecturer: Ronnie Maor (ronnie@math)

  • A summary.

  Cached Sufficient Statistics for Efficient Machine Learning with Large Datasets

  Andrew Moore and Mary Soon Lee

  Journal of Arificial Inteligence Research 8 (1998). and

  ADtrees for Fast Counting and for Fast Learning of Association Rules

  B. Anderson, A. Moore

  KDD, 1998.

  Lecturer: Nir Meirav (kof@math)

  • A summary.

  3/1/99

  Querying the World Wide Web

  A.O. Mendelzon, G.A. Mihaila, T. Milo.

  Proc. IEEE Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems (PDIS), Dec 1996.

  Full version in Int. Journal of Digital Libraries (JODL) 1:1 (1997), 54-67.

  Lecturer: Golan Weiss (golanw@mcil.comm.mot.com)

  • A summary.

  DTL's DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language.

  Shaul Dar, Gadi Entin, Shi Geva, and Eran Palmon.

  Proc. VLDB 1998.

  Guest Lecturer: Dr. Shaul Dar, Mercado Software (formerly DTL).

  4/1/99 Monday 10am, special seminar, Schreiber 309.

  A Crystal Ball for Data-Intensive Processing

  Guest Lecturer: Prof. Joe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley.

  10/1/99

  No seminar - ICDT, Jerusalem.

  17/1/99

  No seminar.

  24/1/99

  Compressing Relations and Indexes

  Jonathan Goldstein, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Uri Shaft.

  ICDE '98

  Lecturer: Eyal Shani (eshani@internet-zahav.net)

  • A summary and presentation.

  An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server (VLDB'97), and

  AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility (VLDB'98)
  S. Chaudhuri and Vivek Narasayya

  Lecturer: Gil Nadel (gil@precisesoft.co.il)

  • A summary and presentation.

  31/1/99

  Bitmap Index Design and Evaluation

  C.Y. Chan and Y.E. Ioannidis.

  Proc. of ACM SIGMOD, Seattle, Washington, June 1998, 355-366.

  Lecturer: Ariel Noy (newhou@math)

  • A summary and a presentation.

  Implementing data cubes efficiently (see abstract).

  V. Harinarayan, A. Rajaraman, and J.D. Ullman

  Proc. of 1996 SIGMOD; and

  Index selection for OLAP (see abstract)

  H. Gupta, V. Harinarayan, A. Rajaraman, and J.D. Ullman

  Proc. Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering, 1997.

  See also Efficient Implementation of Data Cubes via Materialized Views (see abstract)

  Jeffrey D. Ullman

  Proc. of 1996 KDD.

  Lecturer: Avi Telyas (telyas@math.tau.ac.il)

  • A summary.

  7/2/99

  Augmenting suffix trees with applications

  Y. Matias, S. Muthukrishnan, S.C. Sahinalp and J. Ziv.

  Sixth Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), August, 1998.

  Lecturer: Genadi Garber (gena@math)

  • A summary and a presentation.

  Proximity search in databases (see abstract)

  R. Goldman , N. Shivakumar , S. Venkatasubramanian , H. Garcia-Molina.

  Proceedings of International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB'98)

  Lecturer: Eyal Mishor (vip@math.tau.ac.il)

  • A summary and a presentation.

  14/2/99

  Wave-Indices: Indexing evolving databases

  N. Shivakumar and H. Garcia-Molina

  Proc. 1997 SIGMOD.

  See also full version.

  Lecturer: Miri Pardo (miri@math)

  • A summary.

  Storage management for evolving databases

  J. Kleinberg, R. Motwani, P. Raghavan, and S. Venkatasubramanian.

  Lecturer: Natalya Segal (tasya@math)

  • A summary and presentation.

  21/2/99

  Scalable Techniques for Mining Causal Structures

  C. Silberstein, S. Brin, R. Motwani and J. Ullman.

  Proc. VLDB, 1998.

  Lecturer: Sophie Zacharia

  • A summary.

  Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets

  J.S. Vitter and M. Wang.

  Lecturer: Eyal Baruch (eyalb@math)

  • A summary and a presentation and.

  Special seminar: Tuesday 23/2/99 Kaplun 324.

  Extending the power of Informix' Object Relational DBMS using Virtual Table & Index Interfaces

  Guest Lecturer: Roy Gvirtsman, Comsoft, Informix Center Israel

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