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The Claremont report on database research
- Rakesh Agrawal,
- Anastasia Ailamaki,
- Philip A. Bernstein,
- Eric A. Brewer,
- Michael J. Carey,
- Surajit Chaudhuri,
- AnHai Doan,
- Daniela Florescu,
- Michael J. Franklin,
- Hector Garcia-Molina,
- Johannes Gehrke,
- Le Gruenwald,
- Laura M. Haas,
- Alon Y. Halevy,
- Joseph M. Hellerstein,
- Yannis E. Ioannidis,
- Hank F. Korth,
- Donald Kossmann,
- Samuel Madden,
- Roger Magoulas,
- Beng Chin Ooi,
- Tim O'Reilly,
- Raghu Ramakrishnan,
- Sunita Sarawagi,
- Michael Stonebraker,
- Alexander S. Szalay,
- Gerhard Weikum
In late May, 2008, a group of database researchers, architects, users and pundits met at the Claremont Resort in Berkeley, California to discuss the state of the research field and its impacts on practice. This was the seventh meeting of this sort in ...
Null values in SQL
In various writings over the past 20 years, such as [3], Date has pointed out that SQL produces incorrect answers to some queries where a null value is included in a table. In a recent article in the ACM SIGMOD Record, [8], Rubinson states that "Date ...
The ORCHESTRA Collaborative Data Sharing System
- Zachary G. Ives,
- Todd J. Green,
- Grigoris Karvounarakis,
- Nicholas E. Taylor,
- Val Tannen,
- Partha Pratim Talukdar,
- Marie Jacob,
- Fernando Pereira
Sharing structured data today requires standardizing upon a single schema, then mapping and cleaning all of the data. This results in a single queriable mediated data instance. However, for settings in which structured data is being collaboratively ...
Paper and proposal reviews: is the process flawed?
- Henry F. Korth,
- Philip A. Bernstein,
- Mary Fernandez,
- Le Gruenwald,
- Phokion G. Kolaitis,
- Kathryn McKinley,
- Tamer Ozsu
At the 2008 Computing Research Association Conference at Snowbird, the authors participated in a panel addressing the issue of paper and proposal reviews. This short paper summarizes the panelists' presentations and audience commentary. It concludes ...
The conference reviewing crisis and a proposed solution
In Computer Science, we have developed a vibrant conference culture, which has served us well thus far. However, with the growth of our field, the number of submissions to many conferences has sky-rocketed, leading to a downward spiral in reviewing ...
DB&IR integration: report on the Dagstuhl seminar
This paper is based on a five-day workshop on "Ranked XML Querying" that took place in Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany in March 2008 and was attended by 27 people from three different research communities: database systems (DB), information retrieval (IR), ...
